How to use Oracle JDBC driver in Gradle project

Question

I'm new with Gradle projects and I have one question. I've searched in Internet but I couldn't find what I need or maybe I couldn't know how to search it. First I'm going to tell you my case. I have a Gradle project and I would like to execute several automated tests, in the future with jenkins, but now I want to try on Eclipse. I have the oracle jdbc driver in /lib directory, and this is my build.gradle

    apply plugin: 'java'

// In this section you declare where to find the dependencies of your project
repositories {
    jcenter()
    //mavenCentral()
}

// In this section you declare the dependencies for your production and test code
dependencies {
    compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.21'
    compile 'org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:2.+'
    compile 'org.testng:testng:6.+'
    //compile 'com.oracle:ojdbc14:10.2.0.4.0'
    //testCompile 'net.sourceforge.jexcelapi:jxl:2.6.12'
    testCompile 'info.cukes:cucumber-core:1.+'
    testCompile 'info.cukes:cucumber-java:1.+'
    testCompile 'info.cukes:cucumber-junit:1.+'
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
}

repositories {
  flatDir(dir: 'libs')//, name: 'Local libs'
}

dependencies {
  compile name: 'ojdbc7'
}

I'd like to use this jdbc driver in one class but I don't know how to use it. When I tried with Maven I used this way "import oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver;" but I guess this is not valid for Gradle project. Can you help me, please? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You can try reusing your local Maven repository for Gradle:

• Download ojdbc7.jar from Oracle site

• Install the jar into your local Maven repository:

  mvn install:install-file -Dfile=ojdbc7.jar -DgroupId=com.oracle -DartifactId=ojdbc7 -Dversion=12.1.0.1 -Dpackaging=jar
  

• Check that you have the jar installed into your ~/.m2/ local Maven repository

• Enable your local Maven repository in your build.gradle file:

  repositories {  
      mavenCentral()  
      mavenLocal()  
  }  
  
  dependencies {  
      compile ("com.oracle:ojdbc7:12.1.0.1")  
  }  
  

• Now you should have the jar enabled for compilation in your project

Answer 2

You can simply add a jar as dependency, like so:

compile files('libs/ojdbc7.jar')

And there is no need to add a flatDir repository in that case. Read about it in the official user guide