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Kims
Kims

Reputation: 425

Spring boot - Start application with inmemory database

I have a simple Spring boot application. I have it connected to a Postgres database. The URL and login information is in the application.properties file.

This meens that when I am starting the application locally for testing, I need to also have the database up and running. Or else it will fail on startup.

Is there a way to either:

  1. Start the application from a test, and use application-test.properties to set the URL and login to a in-memoty database?
  2. Or maybe when I start the application locally, that it will change the URL and login information to my in-memory database. Skipping the need to start the application from a test.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1117

Answers (3)

Prakriti Shaurya
Prakriti Shaurya

Reputation: 197

The below dependency to be added to the pom.xml.

 <dependency>
         <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
         <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
         <version>2.4.0</version>
         <scope>runtime</scope>
     </dependency>

Next, in the application.properties file set the test as active profile.

#Profile configuration
spring.profiles.active=test

Next, write the application-test.properties as below:

#Database configuration
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:hsqldb:mem:scratchdb/table_name  
spring.datasource.username=sa
spring.datasource.password=
spring.jpa.show-sql = true

application.yml

spring:
  profiles:
    active: test

server:
  servlet.context-path: /
  port: 4343

---  
spring:      
  profiles: dev
  datasource:    
    url: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/db_name
    datasource:
    username: root
    password: root 
  jpa:
    show-sql: true
   
---
spring:      
  profiles: test
  datasource:    
    url: jdbc:hsqldb:mem:scratchdb/db_name
    username: sa
    password:      
  jpa:
    show-sql: true

Upvotes: 1

MyTwoCents
MyTwoCents

Reputation: 7624

Well, your use case is very common and generally using In-memory is preferred when running locally.

Things required to activate it

1.Add below dependency in pom.xml

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
    <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.200</version>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>

you can get other H2 versions from here

2.Can have a local property file application-local.properties will following content

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:mem:testdb
spring.datasource.driverClassName=org.h2.Driver
spring.datasource.username=sa
spring.datasource.password=password
spring.jpa.database-platform=org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect

3.Activate local profile while running

mvn spring-boot:run -Dspring.profiles.active=local

OR

You can specify spring.profiles.active property in application.properties

spring.profiles.active=local

Upvotes: 1

k-wasilewski
k-wasilewski

Reputation: 4623

I'd go with your option 1: create a test properties config test/resource/application-test.properties and annotate the test class with @ActiveProfiles("test")

edit If you want to just run the app w/ a different datasource, Spring Profiles is the way to go.

You declare your db config bean in a @Configuration class, with the @Profile annotation:

@Configuration
@Profile("mem")
public class DataSourceConfig {
    
    @Bean
    public DataSource getDataSource() {
        DataSourceBuilder dataSourceBuilder = DataSourceBuilder.create();
        dataSourceBuilder.driverClassName("org.h2.Driver");
        dataSourceBuilder.url("jdbc:h2:mem:test");
        dataSourceBuilder.username("SA");
        dataSourceBuilder.password("");
        return dataSourceBuilder.build();
    }
}

Alternatively, you can just create a profiled properties file named application-mem.properties with your db configuration there.

Finally, you just run your app with a profile like so:

java -jar app.jar --spring.profiles.active=mem

Upvotes: 1

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