Puzzling documentation about the URL to a database on the classpath
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Key: DERBY-5612
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5612
Project: Derby
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Documentation
Affects Versions: 10.9.0.0
Reporter: Rick Hillegas
The "Accessing databases from the classpath" section of the Derby Developer's
Guide says that you can access a database on the classpath by putting a forward
slash in front of the database name (and then adding other path legs as
needed). I don't find that it works this way. I ran the following experiment:
1) I put a database called nast in the testRun/extin subdirectory of the
current directory.
2) Then I put testRun/extin on the classpath.
3) Then I tried connecting to the database with various URLs.
The following URLs could not find the database:
connect 'jdbc:derby:/nast;user=KIWI;password=KIWI_password';
connect 'jdbc:derby:nast;user=KIWI;password=KIWI_password';
connect 'jdbc:derby:classpath:/nast;user=KIWI;password=KIWI_password';
But the following URL found the database:
connect 'jdbc:derby:classpath:nast;user=KIWI;password=KIWI_password';
This is not what I expected from the documentation in the Developer's Guide.
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