liquibase diff; Cannot find database driver

Liquibase Development
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Hi!

 I am triyng to launch this command-line comparison:

liquibase.bat --classpath=C:\liquibase-2.0.5-bin\ojdbc14.jar --driver=oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver --url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@PC-240484.abg.corp:1521:XE    --username=test     --password=test  diff   --referenceDriver=org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver  --referenceUrl=jdbc:derby:c:/test   --referenceUsername=test     --referencePassword=arce97

But it returns the following error:

SEVERE 23/01/13 9:38:liquibase: Cannot find database driver: org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver
liquibase.exception.DatabaseException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot find database driver: org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver

It is something extrange because if a launch a liquibase -update with this missing driver defined in liquibase.properties the update runs ok.

What can happen?

Method to run liquibase update command in a .bat file or by jar
2

No answer?

3

i got the samething with the exception that  i’m using mysql :s

4

It seems that no one will answer this question .  does any one still use this tool at least ???

5

Liquibase is using some stupid classLoader trick. That’s where the problem comes from. Try adding classpath to your liquibase.properties file instead of using command line arguments.
This worked for me
#######################
url=jdbc:hsqldb:mem:file:test
username=SA
password=
defaultSchemaName=PUBLIC
changeLogFile=master.xml
classpath=hsqldb-2.2.8.jar


6

Liquibase is a great tool. Though it really does some classloader trick. When your jars are in java’s classpath but they are not specified in liquibase’s classpath property - it will say “Cannot find database driver”.

And I missed something when answering the original question. el_litos provided classpath only for Oracle driver and not for Derby. That was his problem.

7

Liquibase is not using any classloader tricks.  Adding classpath to your liquibase.properties file is exactly the same as adding it via the --classpath switch.


One nice undocumented thing is that liquibase will automatically add any jars that are present in its lib directory to the classpath.  Don’t have a lib directory?  Make one, and put your database driver .jar files in there.  Then you don’t have to add them to any Liquibase classpath manually.


Another nice undocumented thing (noticing a trend?) is that the --driver argument is not required.  JDBC will find the proper driver to handle the URL for you.


So if you couple these two things together, you can lose a big chunk off your arguments to liquibase.


Best,

Laird

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