Awesome progress. Thank you On Fri, Dec 24, 2021, 7:25 AM Petri Tuomola <petri.tuom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all > > Following Awasum’s review / sign-off, I’ve merged in PR1990 to remove the > unsupported / unmaintained Drizzle JDBC driver. > > This PR has been “in progress” for a long time - most of the excellent > work was done by IOHacker (Victor Romero) > > This PR achieves the following changes: > > - Drops the unsupported / unmaintained Drizzle JDBC driver from the > distribution > - Integration tests and Docker use MariaDB instead of MySQL as the database > - Integration tests and bootRun use MariaDB JDBC connector instead of > Drizzle > - Docker image includes MariaDB JDBC connector instead of MySQL and > Drizzle connectors > - Licenses and README updated to reflect the fact that we no longer bundle > Drizzle > > As we are not allowed to bundle MariaDB JDBC driver in the binary > distribution, this introduces the following breaking changes to how you > start Fineract: > > - No changes if you use bootRun - the driver is automatically downloaded > when you run “./gradlew bootRun” > > - No changes if you use the Docker images - the driver is automatically > downloaded into the images being built > > - If you use the JAR file, you need to download a JDBC driver of your > choice and pass the location of the driver on the command line. For example: > > wget > https://downloads.mariadb.com/Connectors/java/connector-java-2.7.3/mariadb-java-client-2.7.3.jar > java -Dloader.path=. -jar > fineract-provider/build/libs/fineract-provider.jar > > - If you use external Tomcat, you need to add a JDBC driver in Tomcat’s > classpath. > > Finally you choose to use another JDBC driver than MariaDB, you naturally > need to update the relevant JDBC properties / environment variables to > point to the right driver & connection string. > > I think this is a long overdue change but I agree it might cause some > pain. If you hit any problems, please ask for help here on the dev list and > let’s work out together how to best address any issues you’ve encountered. > > Regards > Petri > >
