Error with Maven GAE Plugin + Google Cloud SQL

Question

Here's my plugin configuration:

<plugin>
                <groupId>net.kindleit</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-gae-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>0.7.3</version>
                <dependencies>
                  <dependency>
                    <groupId>net.kindleit</groupId>
                    <artifactId>gae-runtime</artifactId>
                    <version>${gae.version}</version>
                    <type>pom</type>
                  </dependency>
                </dependencies>
                <configuration>
                    <jvmFlags>
                        <jvmFlag>-Drdbms.server=local</jvmFlag>
                        <jvmFlag>-Drdbms.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</jvmFlag>
                        <jvmFlag>-Drdbms.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/prova?user=root&amp;password=pass</jvmFlag>
                    </jvmFlags>
                    <serverId>appengine.google.com</serverId>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

You can read more here: https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/docs/developers_guide_java

First I had this trivial error, doing mvn gae:run

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

So I added the "real" driver to my pom.xml:

<dependency>
        <groupId>mysql</groupId>
        <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
        <version>5.1.18</version>
    </dependency>

with no results. The error remains the same.

Part of the stacktrace:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
    at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerClassLoader.loadClass(DevAppServerClassLoader.java:87)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
    at com.google.appengine.api.rdbms.dev.LocalRdbmsServiceLocalDriver.registerDriver(LocalRdbmsServiceLocalDriver.java:84)
    at com.google.appengine.api.rdbms.dev.LocalRdbmsServiceLocalDriver.init(LocalRdbmsServiceLocalDriver.java:73)
    at com.google.appengine.api.rdbms.dev.LocalRdbmsService.init(LocalRdbmsService.java:85)

edit:

My new plugin conf:

<plugin>
                <groupId>net.kindleit</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-gae-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>0.9.2</version>
                <dependencies>
                  <dependency>
                    <groupId>net.kindleit</groupId>
                    <artifactId>gae-runtime</artifactId>
                    <version>${gae.version}</version>
                    <type>pom</type>
                  </dependency>
                  <dependency>
                    <groupId>mysql</groupId>
                    <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
                    <version>5.1.18</version>
                </dependency>
                </dependencies>
                <configuration>
                    <jvmFlags>
                        <jvmFlag>-Drdbms.server=local</jvmFlag>
                        <jvmFlag>-Drdbms.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</jvmFlag>
                        <jvmFlag>-Drdbms.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/prova?user=root&amp;password=pass</jvmFlag>
                    </jvmFlags>
                    <serverId>appengine.google.com</serverId>
<!--                     <sdkDir>${appengine.sdk.root}</sdkDir> -->
<!--                     <appDir>${basedir}/war</appDir> -->
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

Answer 1

Ok I solved. I manually put mysql-connector-java-5.1.18-bin.jar in my sdk folder:

 file:///opt/appengine-java-sdk-1.6.0/lib/impl/

Error changes in a more comfortable:

java.sql.SQLException: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Thank you for suggestions however

Answer 2

Or you can use maven-antrun-plugin do it for you at build time. No more manual intervention for your project team (I use this with the offical appengine-maven-plugin, you need to adapt the path for use with maven-gae-plugin) :

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.7</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <!-- Use 'package' instead of 'install' if you want the Driver to be available for 'integration-test' -->
      <phase>package</phase>
      <configuration>
        <target>
          <!-- delete existing mysql jar from appengine sdk lib/impl -->
          <delete>
            <fileset 
              dir="${settings.localRepository}/com/google/appengine/appengine-java-sdk/${appengine.target.version}/appengine-java-sdk/appengine-java-sdk-${appengine.target.version}/lib/impl" 
              includes="**/mysql-connector-java*" />
          </delete>
          <!-- copy mysql jar into appengine sdk lib/impl -->
          <copy 
            file="${settings.localRepository}/mysql/mysql-connector-java/${mysql.version}/mysql-connector-java-${mysql.version}.jar" 
            todir="${settings.localRepository}/com/google/appengine/appengine-java-sdk/${appengine.target.version}/appengine-java-sdk/appengine-java-sdk-${appengine.target.version}/lib/impl"/>
        </target>
      </configuration>
      <goals>
        <goal>run</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin> 

Answer 3

Did you add this to the plugins' dependencies as well ?

If it is the plugin's classpath it should be picked up by GAE.