spring-boot

Connecting a spring-boot application to MySQL

Introduction#

We know that spring-boot by default runs using H2 database. In this article, we will see how to tweak the default configuration to work with MySQL database.

Remarks#

As a pre-requisite, make sure that MySQL is already running on port 3306 and has your database created.

Spring-boot sample using MySQL

We will follow the official guide for spring-boot and spring-data-jpa. We will be building the application using gradle.

  1. Create the gradle build file

    build.gradle

    buildscript {
        repositories {
            mavenCentral()
        }
        dependencies {
            classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.4.3.RELEASE")
        }
    }
    
    apply plugin: 'java'
    apply plugin: 'eclipse'
    apply plugin: 'idea'
    apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'
    
    jar {
        baseName = 'gs-accessing-data-jpa'
        version =  '0.1.0'
    }
    
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        maven { url "https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases" }
    }
    
    sourceCompatibility = 1.8
    targetCompatibility = 1.8
    
    dependencies {
        compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa")
        runtime('mysql:mysql-connector-java')
        testCompile("junit:junit")
    }
  2. Create the customer entity

    src/main/java/hello/Customer.java

    @Entity
    public class Customer {
    
        @Id
        @GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
        private Long id;
        private String firstName;
        private String lastName;
    
        protected Customer() {}
    
        public Customer(String firstName, String lastName) {
            this.firstName = firstName;
            this.lastName = lastName;
        }
    
        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return String.format(
                    "Customer[id=%d, firstName='%s', lastName='%s']",
                    id, firstName, lastName);
        }
    }
  3. Create Repositories

    src/main/java/hello/CustomerRepository.java

    import java.util.List;
    import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
    
    public interface CustomerRepository extends CrudRepository<Customer, Long> {
        List<Customer> findByLastName(String lastName);
    }
  4. Create application.properties file

    ################### DataSource Configuration ##########################
    jdbc.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
    jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/your_database_name
    jdbc.username=username
    jdbc.password=password
    
    init-db=false
    
    ################### Hibernate Configuration ##########################
    
    hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
    hibernate.show_sql=true
    hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto=update
  5. Create the PersistenceConfig.java file

In step 5, we will be defining how the datasource will be loaded and how our application connects to MySQL. The above snippet is the bare minimum configuration we need to connect to MySQL. Here we provide two beans:

@Configuration
@EnableTransactionManagement
@EnableJpaRepositories(basePackages="hello")
public class PersistenceConfig 
{
    @Autowired
    private Environment env;
 
    @Bean
    public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory()
    {
        LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean factory = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
 
        HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
        vendorAdapter.setGenerateDdl(Boolean.TRUE);
        vendorAdapter.setShowSql(Boolean.TRUE);
 
        factory.setDataSource(dataSource());
        factory.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
        factory.setPackagesToScan("hello");
 
        Properties jpaProperties = new Properties();
        jpaProperties.put("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", env.getProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto"));
        factory.setJpaProperties(jpaProperties);
 
        factory.afterPropertiesSet();
        factory.setLoadTimeWeaver(new InstrumentationLoadTimeWeaver());
        return factory;
    }
     
    @Bean
    public DataSource dataSource()
    {
        DriverManagerDataSource dataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();
        dataSource.setDriverClassName(env.getProperty("jdbc.driverClassName"));
        dataSource.setUrl(env.getProperty("jdbc.url"));
        dataSource.setUsername(env.getProperty("jdbc.username"));
        dataSource.setPassword(env.getProperty("jdbc.password"));
        return dataSource;
    }
      
}
  • LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean

This gives us an handle over the EntityManagerFactory configurations and allows us to do customizations. It also allows us to inject the PersistenceContext in our components as below:

@PersistenceContext
private EntityManager em;
  • DataSource

Here we return an instance of the DriverManagerDataSource. It is a simple implementation of the standard JDBC DataSource interface, configuring a plain old JDBC Driver via bean properties, and returning a new Connection for every getConnection call. Note that I recommend to use this strictly for testing purposes as there are better alternatives like BasicDataSource available. Refer here for more details

  1. Create an Application class

    src/main/java/hello/Application.java

     @SpringBootApplication
     public class Application {
    
         private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Application.class);
     
         @Autowired
         private CustomerRepository repository;
     
         public static void main(String[] args) {
             SpringApplication.run(TestCoreApplication.class, args);
         }
     
         @Bean
         public CommandLineRunner demo() {
             return (args) -> {
                 // save a couple of customers
                 repository.save(new Customer("Jack", "Bauer"));
                 repository.save(new Customer("Chloe", "O'Brian"));
                 repository.save(new Customer("Kim", "Bauer"));
                 repository.save(new Customer("David", "Palmer"));
                 repository.save(new Customer("Michelle", "Dessler"));
     
                 // fetch all customers
                 log.info("Customers found with findAll():");
                 log.info("-------------------------------");
                 for (Customer customer : repository.findAll()) {
                     log.info(customer.toString());
                 }
                 log.info("");
     
                 // fetch an individual customer by ID
                 Customer customer = repository.findOne(1L);
                 log.info("Customer found with findOne(1L):");
                 log.info("--------------------------------");
                 log.info(customer.toString());
                 log.info("");
     
                 // fetch customers by last name
                 log.info("Customer found with findByLastName('Bauer'):");
                 log.info("--------------------------------------------");
                 for (Customer bauer : repository.findByLastName("Bauer")) {
                     log.info(bauer.toString());
             }
             log.info("");
         };
     }

    }

  2. Running the application

If you are using an IDE like STS, you can simply right click your project -> Run As -> Gradle (STS) Build… In the tasks list, type bootRun and Run.

If you are using gradle on command line, you can simply run the application as follows:

./gradlew bootRun

You should see something like this:

== Customers found with findAll():
Customer[id=1, firstName='Jack', lastName='Bauer']
Customer[id=2, firstName='Chloe', lastName='O'Brian']
Customer[id=3, firstName='Kim', lastName='Bauer']
Customer[id=4, firstName='David', lastName='Palmer']
Customer[id=5, firstName='Michelle', lastName='Dessler']

== Customer found with findOne(1L):
Customer[id=1, firstName='Jack', lastName='Bauer']

== Customer found with findByLastName('Bauer'):
Customer[id=1, firstName='Jack', lastName='Bauer']
Customer[id=3, firstName='Kim', lastName='Bauer']

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