IntelliJ Idea groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Conflicting module versions - intellij-idea

Question

My maven builds are fine and able to run groovy from cli. However if I try to run my groovy class inside IntelliJ Idea (version 15 community edition), its gives me below error.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.<clinit>(InvokerHelper.java:61)
at groovy.lang.GroovyObjectSupport.<init>(GroovyObjectSupport.java:32)
at groovy.lang.Closure.<init>(Closure.java:219)
at groovy.lang.Closure.<init>(Closure.java:236)
at groovy.lang.Closure$1.<init>(Closure.java:203)
at groovy.lang.Closure.<clinit>(Closure.java:203)
at filter.App.<clinit>(App.groovy)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:122)
Caused by: groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Conflicting module versions. Module [groovy-all is loaded in version 2.3.9 and you are trying to load version 2.4.5
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MetaClassRegistryImpl$DefaultModuleListener.onModule(MetaClassRegistryImpl.java:509)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.m12n.ExtensionModuleScanner.scanExtensionModuleFromProperties(ExtensionModuleScanner.java:77)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.m12n.ExtensionModuleScanner.scanExtensionModuleFromMetaInf(ExtensionModuleScanner.java:71)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.m12n.ExtensionModuleScanner.scanClasspathModules(ExtensionModuleScanner.java:53)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MetaClassRegistryImpl.<init>(MetaClassRegistryImpl.java:110)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MetaClassRegistryImpl.<init>(MetaClassRegistryImpl.java:71)
at groovy.lang.GroovySystem.<clinit>(GroovySystem.java:33)
... 10 more
Not sure how to get rid of this.
This is my pom dependency.
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
<artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
<version>2.4.5</version>
</dependency>
And I am using spring boot.
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.3.2.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath></relativePath>
</parent>
This is my groovy version installed in system.
Groovy Version: 2.4.5 JVM: 1.8.0_60 Vendor: Oracle Corporation OS: Linux
Please let me know if someone knows about this.

Answer 1

you have to delete groovy lib from project settings.
shift+alt+ctrl + s, global libraries - delete groovy. And when trying to run applictaion / test you should have point to groovy from maven dependencies.

Answer 2

#SuperAndrew's suggestion wasn't my situation -- I didn't have Groovy registered under Global Libraries under my Project Structure. But I did find this StackExchange solution resolved my issue. Add this code to your build.gradle file.
configurations.all {
resolutionStrategy {
force 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.4.4'
}
}

Answer 3

I was seeing this in a recent project after I upgraded Gradle to 7.+
The reason this was causing a problem for me was that Gradle 7.+ is now using Groovy 3.+ and as such various other plugins needed to be upgraded (e.g. spock-core).
It was this incompatibility of various dependencies that were causing this and once I updated all of them this issue went away.