Unable to query a db from gradle build script

Question

I am trying to query a db from within a gradle script task. I started with a groovy script to verify the code

import groovy.sql.Sql

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Answer 1

It appears that your net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver is not available. This is likely because of an issue with your path in

buildscript {
    dependencies {
        classpath files('..../jtds-1.2.2.jar')
    }
}

The path you provide to classpath files( path ) needs to be a relative path to the root of your gradle project directory. I'd suggest moving your jtds jar into the libs directory, and taking a look at this doc: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_management.html#sub:file_dependencies

Also, the jtds jar is on the maven repo, why not use that instead of a local jar? The beauty of build tools like gradle and maven is that you do not need to locally store or manage many popular jars.