I am new to PostgreSQL (I normally use other database engines), and I also do not use Java often.
My Problem is that I get the following exception:
java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for DATABASE_NAME
java.sql/java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:702)
at
java.sql/java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:228)
I followed this tutorial: http://www.postgresqltutorial.com/postgresql-jdbc/connecting-to-postgresql-database/ and added postgresql-42.2.5.jar as a library.
The problem is that adding the driver as a library, as can be seen in the screenshot, has no effect.
So my question is: how do I connect to a PostgreSQL database using Java and the latest IntelliJ?
Any help would be appreciated.
UPDATE 2: Since the code has been requested: I have replaced the original code by a minimal code that will cause the error:
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
public class IngestData
{
protected static String url;
protected static final String user = "user";
protected static final String password = "password";
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Connection connection = null;
url = args[args.length-1];
try
{
connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
System.out.println("SUCCESS");
} catch (SQLException e)
{
System.out.println("ERROR");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
The console output is:
ERROR
java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver found for http://127.0.0.1:10282/db01617792
at java.sql/java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:702)
at java.sql/java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:228)
at IngestData.main(IngestData.java:17)
Process finished with exit code 0
Here is the link to the git repository containing the code: https://github.com/ka6555/StackOverflow-Postgresql-Problem.git
UPDATE 3: I found the error:
I need to change
protected static String url;
to
protected static String url = "jdbc:postgresql://";
and
url = args[args.length-1];
to
url += args[args.length-1];
While this solves my original problem, the program is now stuck executing the following line:
connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
There is no error but the program will simply run like with an endless loop never going beyond this code line.
UPDATE 4: I have fixed all problems now.
The main problem was that I used a command line parameter as the database url without prefixing it with jdbc:postgresql://
. Additionally, I had to reinstall postgresql because of some odd behavior I could not figure out the reason for.