playdb

A Play Framework DB Module.

This Play module allows you to start the application without needing a connection to a database. The connection pool handler (HikariCP) will handle creating and maintaining a database connection.

Setps to Install

1. Add "com.github.njlg" %% "playdb" % "0.1" as a libraryDependencies
2. Configure each database configuration to have hikaricp.initializationFailFast = false. In your application.conf change this:

db {
  api {
    driver: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
    url: "jdbc:mysql://mysql.host.com/common"
    username: "username"
    password: "p4ssw0rd"
  }
}

To this:

  db {
    api {
      driver: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
      url: "jdbc:mysql://mysql.host.com/common"
      username: "username"
      password: "p4ssw0rd"
      hikaricp: {
        initializationFailFast: false
      }
    }
  }

3. Disable the default Play driver & enable this one.

// disable this because it crashes the app if it cannot connect to all databases
play.modules.disabled += "play.api.db.DBModule"

// use this to start the app without a connection
play.modules.enabled += "com.github.njlg.playdb.DBModule"