play slick database configuration issues with postgres driver

Question

I'm trying to set up a simple play 2.5 application with slick and postgres, but can't seem to get past an error.
The error I'm getting is

[error] p.a.d.s.DefaultSlickApi - Failed to create Slick database config for key default.
slick.SlickException: Error getting instance of profile "slick.jdbc.PostgresProfile"
...
Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: slick.jdbc.PostgresProfile
...
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: slick.jdbc.PostgresProfile.<init>()
...

I've got the following in my application.conf

slick.dbs.default {
  driver = "slick.jdbc.PostgresProfile"
  db = {
    driver = "org.postgresql.Driver"

    user = postgres
    host = localhost
    port = 5432
    password = ""

    host = ${?EVENTUAL_DB_HOST}
    port = ${?EVENTUAL_DB_PORT}
    user = ${?EVENTUAL_DB_USER}
    password = ${?EVENTUAL_DB_PW}
    url = "jdbc:postgresql://"${slick.dbs.default.db.host}":"${slick.dbs.default.db.port}"/"${slick.dbs.default.db.user}
  }
}

and these in my dependencies

  "com.typesafe.play" %% "play-slick" % "2.1.0",
  "com.typesafe.slick" %% "slick-codegen" % "3.1.1",
  "com.github.tminglei" %% "slick-pg" % "0.15.0-RC", //"0.14.6",
  "org.postgresql" % "postgresql" % "42.0.0"

if I change slick.dbs.default.driver to slick.driver.PostgresDriver (which is now deprecated evidently) I get

[error] p.a.d.s.DefaultSlickApi - Failed to create Slick database config for key default.
slick.SlickException: Error getting instance of profile "slick.driver.PostgresDriver"
...
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: slick.driver.PostgresDriver
...

I'm about pulling my hair out here and can't find any other resources to look at. Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

Answer 1

Sure enough, by recommendation of insan-e, all I had to do was add a $. So slick.dbs.default.driver should be "slick.jdbc.PostgresProfile$".