I'm developing an API to manage a database in the company where I work, the problem is that when I have to run the different test I have to use the "real" dev database (in h2) where I have some real data.
I thought about it and what I wanted to do is create a new h2 database that could start in the testing phase, and use it to test all my Controller methods.
The problem is that I have no clue of how to achieve this in Spring Boot. If you could help me I'd be very grateful.
To sum it up:
I have an h2 database
I want to use a secondary h2 for testing
How coul I achieve this?
Thanks!
Let us assume you have 2 environments - "production" and "testing".
Step 1: Define one configuration file for each environment
Keep one application.properties files for each environment. Each will contain its own settings for the database. Like this:
Production: application-production.properties
#Start: For MySQL 8.0 database.
spring.datasource.url= jdbc:mysql://${DB_IP}:${DB_PORT}/${DB_SCHEMA}
spring.datasource.username=${DB_USER}
spring.datasource.password=${DB_PASSWD}
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL8Dialect
#End: For MySQL 8.0 database.
spring.sql.init.platform=mysql
Testing: application-testing.properties
# Start: For H2 in-memory database.
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:mem:testdb
spring.datasource.username=sa
spring.datasource.password=secret
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
spring.h2.console.enabled=true
# End: For H2 in-memory database.
spring.sql.init.platform=h2
Step 2: Build your application bootable JAR
There is nothing to explain here. :)
Step 3: Pass the profile name when running the JAR
For testing environment:
$ java -jar -Dspring.profiles.active=testing <spring-boot-application-jar>
For production environment:
$ java -jar -Dspring.profiles.active=production <spring-boot-application-jar>
The first one will use application-testing.properties and the second one application-production.properties.
There are some other factors too like default properties in application.properties and the specific ones in profile-based properties, etc. which you may read up on the Spring docs.
I want to deploy my Java Web Application with an internal H2 database on AWS.
I creates application-prod.properties like:
server.port=5000
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:./src/main/resources/data/demo
spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.h2.Driver
spring.datasource.username=sa
spring.datasource.password=
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
spring.h2.console.enabled=true
spring.h2.console.path=/h2-console
spring.h2.console.settings.trace=false
spring.h2.console.settings.web-allow-others=false
spring.h2.console.settings.trace=false
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=none
I package my application as jar and load it up to elastic beanstack. But when I deploy, the database always disappear and I need to recreate the whole schema.
I just want to use the internal h2 database for my sample application and I want to keep the data in the database file.
Does anybody know how I can achieve this?
My application is a spring boot application based on vaadin.
Thanks and kind regards,
Nullpointer
/src/main/resources/data/demo
probably does not exist on AWS because this is the directory on your local machine and you are deploying a JAR file.
Try to point to the user home like this:
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:~/demo
But be aware that if BeansTalk will recreate the application the data may be lost.
I have setup H2 as an embedded persistent database ('Embedded (Local) Database' with jdbc:h2:[file:][<path>]<databaseName>) with Spring Boot using Spring Data JPA abstraction, like below
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:file:/home/data/embeddeddb;CACHE_SIZE=${spring.datasource.cache.size:131072}
spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.h2.Driver
spring.datasource.username=someusr
spring.datasource.password=somepwd
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=none
spring.h2.console.enabled=true
spring.h2.console.path=/h2-console
#spring.h2.console.settings.trace=false
spring.h2.console.settings.web-allow-others=true
I placed the schema.sql under my project resources and see that i am able to perform CRUD operations via the CrudRepository. I also enabled h2 console via properties as shown above.
But when i connect to the database from the h2 console using the same URL i specified (above), it does not show me the tables i have created or the configured cache size.
This even though i can use #Query methods in my CrudRepository to see that they are there.
I am not sure what i am missing here, can someone throw light on this?
Thanks
I have created one Spring boot application and I am not using in-memory H2 database, instead I have installed exe for H2 database and using it externally. Now I want to connect my Spring boot app with this external H2 database. I have added the dependencies, I have added all the required properties in application.properties file (you can see below). Also I have created one Entity class having #Entity annotation. But when I am trying to connect with the database it is connecting even with different URL and username and I cannot see my Entity class table over there. So where am I doing a mistake and what are the things which I have missed, please address me on this.
For your information, my Spring boot app is running on port - 8080 and H2 database is running on 8082
spring.h2.driverClassName = org.h2.Driver
spring.h2.url = jdbc:h2:file:~/test2;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE; AUTO_RECONNECT=TRUE
spring.h2.username = QW
spring.h2.password = root
spring.h2.console.enabled = true
spring.datasource.platform = h2
You can try this
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost:8082/~/<DB-NAME>
spring.datasource.username=<username>
spring.datasource.password=<password>
spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.h2.Driver
Give in properties file
# H2
spring.datasource.url=<your value
spring.datasource.username=username
spring.datasource.password=password
spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.h2.Driver
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
Check this tutorial below link
https://howtodoinjava.com/spring-boot2/h2-database-example/
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-h2-database
I am simply trying to see the H2 database content for an embedded H2 database which spring-boot creates when I don't specify anything in my application.properties and start with mvn spring:run. I can see hibernate JPA creating the tables but if I try to access the h2 console at the URL below the database has no tables.
http://localhost:8080/console/
I see suggestions like this one:
View content of embedded H2 database started by Spring
But I don't know where to put the suggested XML in spring-boot and even if I did, I don't want the h2console to be available anymore when an external database is configured so it is more likely that I need to handle this with some kind of conditional code (or maybe just allow spring to automatically handle it in the most ideal case where I only include H2 when a maven profile is activated).
Does anyone have some sample code showing how to get the H2 console working in boot (and also the way to find out what the jdbc connection string that spring is using is)?
This is how I got the H2 console working in spring-boot with H2. I am not sure if this is right but since no one else has offered a solution then I am going to suggest this is the best way to do it.
In my case, I chose a specific name for the database so that I would have something to enter when starting the H2 console (in this case, "AZ"). I think all of these are required though it seems like leaving out the spring.jpa.database-platform does not hurt anything.
In application.properties:
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:mem:AZ;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.h2.Driver
spring.datasource.username=sa
spring.datasource.password=
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
In Application.java (or some configuration):
#Bean
public ServletRegistrationBean h2servletRegistration() {
ServletRegistrationBean registration = new ServletRegistrationBean(new WebServlet());
registration.addUrlMappings("/console/*");
return registration;
}
Then you can access the H2 console at {server}/console/. Enter this as the JDBC URL: jdbc:h2:mem:AZ
As of Spring Boot 1.3.0.M3, the H2 console can be auto-configured.
The prerequisites are:
You are developing a web app
Spring Boot Dev Tools are enabled
H2 is on the classpath
Even if you don't use Spring Boot Dev Tools, you can still auto-configure the console by setting spring.h2.console.enabled to true
Check out this part of the documentation for all the details.
Note that when configuring in this way the console is accessible at: http://localhost:8080/h2-console/
I have found a nice tutorial about this topic:
https://springframework.guru/using-the-h2-database-console-in-spring-boot-with-spring-security/
Basically the correct JDBC URL for me was: jdbc:h2:mem:testdb
From http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/common-application-properties.html
H2 Web Console (H2ConsoleProperties):
spring.h2.console.enabled=true //Enable the console.
spring.h2.console.path=/h2-console //Path at which the console will be available.
Adding the above two lines to my application.properties file was enough to access the H2 database web console, using the default username (sa) and password (empty, as in don't enter a password when the ui prompts you).
A similar answer with Step by Step guide.
Add Developer tools dependency to your pom.xml or build.gradle
Maven
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Gradle
dependencies {
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools")
}
Access the db from http://localhost:8080/h2-console/
Specify jdbc:h2:mem:testdb as JDBC URL
You should see the entity you specified in your project as a table.
For Spring Boot 2.1.1 straight from Spring Initialzr:
Default with devtools is http://127.0.0.1:8080/h2-console/
POM: spring-boot-starter, h2, spring-boot-starter-web, spring-boot-devtools
Without devtools - you need to set it in properties: spring.h2.console.enabled=true spring.h2.console.path=/h2-console
POM: spring-boot-starter, h2, spring-boot-starter-web
Once you get there - set JDBC URL: jdbc:h2:mem:testdb (The default one will not work)
I had only below properties in /resources/application.properties. After running spring boot, using this URL(http://localhost:8080/h2-console/), the table in H2 console was visible and read to view the table data, also you can run simple SQL commands. One thing, in your java code, while fetching data, the column names are upper-case, even though schema.sql is using lower-case names :)
spring.datasource.initialize=true
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:mem:testdb;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=- 1;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.h2.Driver
spring.datasource.username=sa
spring.datasource.password=
spring.h2.console.enabled=true
Check spring application.properties
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:mem:testdb;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
here testdb is database defined
Make sure h2 console have same value while connecting other wise it will connect to default db
For Spring Boot 2.3.3.RELEASE straight from Spring Initialzr:
POM: data jpa, h2, web
application properties: spring.h2.console.enabled=true
When you run the application look for line like below in the run console:
2020-08-18 21:12:32.664 INFO 63256 --- [ main] o.s.b.a.h2.H2ConsoleAutoConfiguration : H2 console available at '/h2-console'. Database available at 'jdbc:h2:mem:eaa9d6da-aa2e-4ad3-9e5b-2b60eb2fcbc5'
Now use the above JDBC URL for h2-console and click on Connect.
If you use Spring Boot's developer tools, it comes with H2 Console enabled by default. It can be accessed from /h2-console/. On the login interface, for input JDBC URL use value jdbc:h2:mem:testdb. Pay attention to mem string.
If you don't use Spring Boot's developer tools, you can enable the console in application.properties using spring.h2.console.enabled=true. This will enable console under /h2-console. If you want to change the URL then you can add another entry with spring.h2.console.path=my_console_path.
The default schema name is testdb.
More details in Spring Boot Documentation.
In order to get the tables all you need to do is create 2 sql files schema.sql(for table creation) and data.sql(data for the created tables). These files to be put in src/main/resources folder. Spring boot auto detects them and takes care of the rest during runtime.
If your using more than 2 DB in your project ensure to use specific files like (schema-h2.sql -- for h2 DB , schema-oracle.sql -- for oracle DB). The same to be followed for data.sql too.
Also ensure that you drop tables by adding drop table statement in your schema.sql as first statement. To avoid appending of duplicate records.
The link for spring boot is here.
My application.properties is as follows.
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:~/file/Shiva;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.h2.Driver
spring.datasource.username=sa
spring.datasource.password=
spring.datasource.platform=h2
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
spring.h2.console.enabled=true
spring.datasource.initialize=true
spring.error.whitelabel.enabled=true
spring.h2.console.path=/console
spring.datasource.continue-on-error=true
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=create
spring.hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update
spring.hibernate.show_sql=true
You can follow the steps in the below link.
https://springframework.guru/using-the-h2-database-console-in-spring-boot-with-spring-security/
I found that with spring boot 2.0.2.RELEASE, configuring spring-boot-starter-data-jpa and com.h2database in the POM file is not just enough to have H2 console working. You must configure spring-boot-devtools as below.
Optionally you could follow the instruction from Aaron Zeckoski in this post
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
Use jdbc:h2:mem:testdb as your path when logging into the H2 console.
Obviously if you have altered Spring Boot properties your datasource may be different, but it seems like you're struggling with how to find the default. That's all there is to it! You'll see your schema after logging in to H2.
I had made a very stupid mistake when I had this same problem. I had added H2 DB for running unit test cases and hence I had set the scope to test in pom.xml. While running the application using mvn spring:run I removed the scope and it works fine now.