Unable to connect mysql to spring boot project

Question

i am following this https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-mysql/ guide to connect mysql db to spring boot project

but getting following error when running the a

Answer 1

It seems like the application may not be running with the correct classpath as it seem to be having difficulty locating the mysql driver. Are you trying to run the application through the IDE?

Try running the application via maven using the command line from the project's directory:

./mvnw spring-boot:run

If this works then it's a problem with the IDE, for some reason it's not providing the correct classpath when running your application. I'm not familiar with STS but in IntelliJ there are options like "auto import pom" to keep the IDE's view of the project in sync with the pom.