How to use a persistent H2 database in the Play Framework instead of in-memory

Question

The H2 database used in the Java Todo List tutorial is the following:

db.default.driver=org.h2.Driver
db.default.url=\"jdbc:h2:mem:play\"

Answer 1

I found the solution.

To create a file database, modify the following:

From

db.default.url="jdbc:h2:mem:play"

To

db.default.url="jdbc:h2:file:data/db"

Where data/db is broken down into:

data/ The folder location of the database files relative to your project root.

db The name of your database files.