How to use MySQL JDBC driver in an SBT Scala broject?

Question

When I run my project for the first time during an SBT session, it throws the following exception when trying to access a MySQL database:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: scala/Ordered

When I run it again (and any time after it, during the same SBT session), it throws a different one:

java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for jdbc:mysql://localhost/...

When I was using NetBeans, the same code was working Ok. Now, As I use SBT for building, Kate to edit and manage my project manually, I get these runtime errors.

MySQL JDBC driver (downloaded right from MySQL.com) JAR is in project's lib directory, other libraries I've put there work ok.

in the code I

import java.sql._
...
// read
val dbc : Connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/...")
val st : Statement = dbc.createStatement
val rs : ResultSet = st.executeQuery("SELECT ...")
if(rs.first) result = rs.getDouble("field")
dbc.colse
...
// write
val dbc : Connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/...")
val st : Statement = dbc.createStatement
st.execute("UPDATE ...")
dbc.colse

I've seen a question looking pretty related, but no answer.

Answer 1

Hi Ivan

In the SBT project class there should be a line:

 // Declare MySQL connector Dependency
  val mysql = "mysql" % "mysql-connector-java" % "5.1.12"

This will import the JDBC driver JAR file for MySQL.

Did you load the driver? If you use this Util class to fetch the connections, the driver will be loaded exactly one time:

// Util Class
object DaoUtil {
  import java.sql.{DriverManager, Connection}

  private var driverLoaded = false

  private def loadDriver()  {
    try{
      Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver").newInstance
      driverLoaded = true
    }catch{
      case e: Exception  => {
        println("ERROR: Driver not available: " + e.getMessage)
        throw e
      }
    }
  }

  def getConnection(dbc: DbConnection): Connection =  {
    // Only load driver first time
    this.synchronized {
      if(! driverLoaded) loadDriver()
    }

    // Get the connection
    try{
      DriverManager.getConnection(dbc.getConnectionString)
    }catch{
      case e: Exception  => {
        println("ERROR: No connection: " + e.getMessage)
        throw e
      }
    }
  }
}

The code is taken from a simple SBT - MySQL tutorial I wrote some time ago. If you want to download the complete tutorial, see http://github.com/ollekullberg/SimpleOrder