Upgrade to Gradle 6.8 and modernize the build

Closes gh-719

docs/src/test/java/com/example/mockmvc/CustomFormat.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2014-2016 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2014-2021 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package com.example.mockmvc;
 
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Rule;
+
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.restdocs.JUnitRestDocumentation;
 import org.springframework.restdocs.templates.TemplateFormats;
@@ -42,8 +43,8 @@ public class CustomFormat {
 	public void setUp() {
 		// tag::custom-format[]
 		this.mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(this.context)
-				.apply(documentationConfiguration(this.restDocumentation)
-						.snippets().withTemplateFormat(TemplateFormats.markdown()))
+				.apply(documentationConfiguration(this.restDocumentation).snippets()
+						.withTemplateFormat(TemplateFormats.markdown()))
 				.build();
 		// end::custom-format[]
 	}