gradle pact not working after upgrade to gradle 4.8

Question

I'm getting the below error after upgrading to gradle 4.8

Synchronize Gradle projects with workspace failed due to an error in the referenced Gradle build.
Could not run build action using Gradle distribution 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.8-bin.zip'.

A problem occurred configuring root project 'wag-doc-text2clip'.
**No signature of method: org.gradle.util.NameValidator.asValidName() is applicable for argument types: (org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.GStringImpl) values: [pactVerify_text2clip]**
**org.gradle.tooling.BuildException: Could not run build action using Gradle distribution 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.8-bin.zip'.**
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.ExceptionTransformer.transform(ExceptionTransformer.java:51)
Caused by: org.gradle.api.ProjectConfigurationException: A problem occurred configuring root project 'wag-doc-text2clip'.
    at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.addConfigurationFailure(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:109)
    at 
Caused by: groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: org.gradle.util.NameValidator.asValidName() is applicable for argument types: (org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.GStringImpl) values: [pactVerify_text2clip]
    at au.com.dius.pact.provider.gradle.PactPlugin$_apply_closure1$_closure3$_closure4.doCall(PactPlugin.groovy:47)
    at 

Can someone help me please.

Answer 1

Resolved this issue by upgrading the pact plugin.

id "au.com.dius.pact" version "3.6.0-rc.0"

classpath "gradle.plugin.au.com.dius:pact-jvm-provider-gradle_2.12:3.6.0-rc.0"