Exception when creating datasource with PostgreSQL driver in Spring Boot

Question

I'm trying to create a non-web application using Spring Boot following a MKyong's example, but I got the following error:

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2018-12-12 11:45:29.420 ERROR 30866 --- [ main] com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig           : Failed to load driver class org.postgresql.Driver from HikariConfig class classloader sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader@18b4aac2
2018-12-12 11:45:29.423  WARN 30866 --- [ main] s.c.a.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext : Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling refresh attempt: org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationPropertiesBindException: Error creating bean with name 'ldConfiguration': Could not bind properties to 'LdConfiguration' : prefix=datasources.ld, ignoreInvalidFields=false, ignoreUnknownFields=true; nested exception is org.springframework.boot.context.properties.bind.BindException: Failed to bind properties under 'datasources.ld' to es.ortoplus.LdConfiguration$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$625f0f64
2018-12-12 11:45:29.435  INFO 30866 --- [ main] ConditionEvaluationReportLoggingListener : 

Error starting ApplicationContext. To display the conditions report re-run your application with 'debug' enabled.
2018-12-12 11:45:29.440 ERROR 30866 --- [           main] o.s.b.d.LoggingFailureAnalysisReporter   : 

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APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:

Failed to bind properties under 'datasources.ld' to es.oplus.LdConfiguration$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$625f0f64:

    Property: datasources.ld.driverclassname
    Value: org.postgresql.Driver
    Origin: class path resource [application.yml]:3:22
    Reason: Failed to load driver class org.postgresql.Driver in either of HikariConfig class loader or Thread context classloader

Action:

Update your application's configuration

My conf file (application.yml) is

datasources:
  ld:
    driverClassName: org.postgresql.Driver
    jdbc-url: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/oplus
    username: user123
    password: 123456
    connection-test-query: SELECT 1

And in my Maven pom.xml file I added:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
  <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
  <!--<version> (managed by Spring Boot)42.2.5 </version> -->
</dependency>

My entry point class:

@SpringBootApplication
public class App implements CommandLineRunner {

    @Autowired private UsuarioRepository usuarioRep;
    @Override
    public void run(String... args) throws Exception {
        App app = new App();
        System.out.printf("Users: %1d", app.usuarioRep.count());

    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws ClassNotFoundException {
        //Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
        SpringApplication.run(App.class, args);

    }

}

As you can see, I've tried to check if the class is already in the classpath. If I uncomment that line I got a ClassNotFoundException, so it seems the error is caused because Maven is not including the dependency. I've tried to set the scope as runtime, but it fails anyway.

Anyway, here is my Configuration class:

@Configuration
@ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "datasources.ld")
@EnableTransactionManagement
@EnableJpaRepositories(entityManagerFactoryRef = "postgreEntityManagerFactory", transactionManagerRef = "postgreTransactionManager",
        basePackages = "es.plus.l.dao")
public class LdConfiguration extends HikariConfig {

    @Bean(name = "postgreDataSource")
    @Primary
    public DataSource dataSource() {
        return new HikariDataSource(this);
    }

    @Bean(name = "postgreEntityManagerFactory")
    @Primary
    public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean postgreEntityManagerFactory(
            final EntityManagerFactoryBuilder builder,
            @Qualifier("postgreDataSource") final DataSource dataSource) {
        final LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactoryBean = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
        entityManagerFactoryBean.setJpaVendorAdapter(this.vendorAdaptor());
        entityManagerFactoryBean.setDataSource(dataSource);
        entityManagerFactoryBean.setPersistenceProviderClass(HibernatePersistenceProvider.class);
        entityManagerFactoryBean.setPersistenceUnitName("postgre");
        entityManagerFactoryBean.setPackagesToScan("es.oplus.ld.model");
        entityManagerFactoryBean.setJpaProperties(this.jpaHibernateProperties());
        entityManagerFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet();
        return entityManagerFactoryBean;
    }

    @Bean(name = "postgreTransactionManager")
    @Primary
    public PlatformTransactionManager postgreTransactionManager(
          @Qualifier("postgreEntityManagerFactory") final EntityManagerFactory emf) {
        return new JpaTransactionManager(emf);
    }

    private HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdaptor() {
        final HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
        // put all the adapter properties here, such as show sql
        return vendorAdapter;
    }

    private Properties jpaHibernateProperties() {
        final Properties properties = new Properties();
        // put all required jpa propeties here
        return properties;
    }

}

Answer 1

I found the problem: Eclipse showed the dependencies properly, but as it seemed the class was not really present, I tried to run it manually, so when I executed:

mvn clean install

I got this error from Maven

error reading /home/pablo/.m2/repository/org/postgresql/postgresql/42.2.5/postgresql-42.2.5.jar; invalid LOC header (bad signature)

So the error was caused by Maven downloading a corrupt version of the jar.

Deleting it to force a new download fixed the issue.

Answer 2

add next code to pom.xml:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
        <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>

Answer 3

Make sure you have both JDBC driver and PostgreSQL dependencies in pom.xml as follows:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
        <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>