• Error Message

Caused by: 

org.gradle.internal.metaobject.AbstractDynamicObject$CustomMessageMissingMethodException: Could not find method api() for arguments [org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

dependencies {
    api("$boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa")
}

api script 적용하려면

apply plugin: "java-library"

상단에 추가해주어야 한다.

• 최종

apply plugin: "java-library"

dependencies {
  api("$boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa")
}

Reference

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/java_library_plugin.html#sec:java_library_separation