MariaDB is a popular open-source relational database management system that is a fork of the MySQL database. Grails, on the other hand, is a web application framework for the Java platform. It is based on the Groovy programming language and uses the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture.
To use MariaDB with Grails, you need to set up a database connection in your Grails application’s configuration file. Here are the steps to do that:
- Install the MariaDB database server on your machine and create a database that you want to use with your Grails application.
- Open your Grails application’s
application.ymlfile, located in thegrails-app/confdirectory. - Add the following configuration settings to the file:
[codesyntax lang=”cpp”]
dataSource:
driverClassName: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.MariaDBDialect
username: your_username
password: your_password
url: jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/your_database_name
[/codesyntax]- Replace
your_username,your_password, andyour_database_namewith the appropriate values for your MariaDB setup. - Save the
application.ymlfile and start your Grails application. It should now be able to connect to the MariaDB database using the configuration settings you provided.
You can now use the Grails GORM (Grails Object Relational Mapping) framework to interact with the MariaDB database from your Grails application. GORM provides a simple and intuitive way to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on your database tables using Groovy domain classes.
Mr. Arch Brooks, Software Engineer, Brooks Computing Systems, LLC authored this article.