My Spring Boot Project trying connect to MYSQL database with driver mysql-connector-java. I have import newest mysql driver and spring-boot-starter-data-jpa

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>mysql</groupId>
    <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
</dependency>

I have configured database connection in application.properties file

spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://${MYSQL_HOST:localhost}:3306/db_example
spring.datasource.username=somethingfunny
spring.datasource.password=somethingfunny
spring.datasource.driverClassName=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver
#spring.jpa.show-sql: true

MYSQL version is 8.0.26

Spring boot version 2.6.2

When run project with Intellij I get error

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource]: Factory method 'dataSource' threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot load driver class: com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:185) ~[spring-beans-5.3.14.jar:5.3.14] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiate(ConstructorResolver.java:653) ~[spring-beans-5.3.14.jar:5.3.14] ... 35 common frames omitted Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot load driver class: com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver at org.springframework.util.Assert.state(Assert.java:97) ~[spring-core-5.3.14.jar:5.3.14] at org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceProperties.determineDriverClassName(DataSourceProperties.java:241) ~[spring-boot-autoconfigure-2.6.2.jar:2.6.2] at org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceProperties.initializeDataSourceBuilder(DataSourceProperties.java:193) ~[spring-boot-autoconfigure-2.6.2.jar:2.6.2] at org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceConfiguration.createDataSource(DataSourceConfiguration.java:48) ~[spring-boot-autoconfigure-2.6.2.jar:2.6.2] at org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceConfiguration$Hikari.dataSource(DataSourceConfiguration.java:90) ~[spring-boot-autoconfigure-2.6.2.jar:2.6.2] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[na:na] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[na:na] at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[na:na] at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566) ~[na:na] at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:154) ~[spring-beans-5.3.14.jar:5.3.14] ... 36 common frames omitted

I have refered the post about Cannot load driver class: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver (NOT com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver), I cannot apply for my project because my project get error when using com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver but not com.mysql.jdbc.Driver.

I also refered this post Cannot load driver class: com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver. But i can not find correct answer(the answer is marked corrected) for this error.

How to fix this error ?

CodePudding user response：

Lets try this :

spring.database.driverClassName=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver

CodePudding user response：

Fix the line that sets jdbc driver class as below: I don't think it matters but driver-class-name is more common. And check if your build file is up to date. Might as well try re-building using pom.xml

spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver

CodePudding user response：

Have you checked which version of MySQL connector do you have? Since you haven't specified the version in your pom.xml, there is a chance that it pulled version 5 and now it is complaining about that .cj which is required for version 8. Either check that and remove .cj or by hand manually add the version in your pom.xml and keep .cj as it is.

<dependency>
    <groupId>mysql</groupId>
    <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
    <version>8.0.27</version>
</dependency>

That picture that you shared "mysql version", that means nothing, the exception is regarding mysql-connector jar, it has nothing to do with the workbench.