HikariPool-1 - jdbcUrl is required with driverClassName

Question

I went back to programming my old program https://github.com/JonkiPro/REST-Web-Services. I\'ve updated Spring Boot from version 15.6 to version 2.0.0. I have encountered many pr

Answer 1

Either remove spring.datasource.driver-class-name property or rename the spring.datasource.url property to spring.datasource.jdbc-url.

This is reported in your error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: jdbcUrl is required with driverClassName

First option looks cleaner and Spring Boot will figure out the default driver class name based on the spring.datasource.url property value (see org.springframework.boot.jdbc.DatabaseDriver class if you want to debug this).