SpringBoot Datasource AutoConfiguration Not Working - spring-boot

Question

I have a simple SpringBoot application and I'd like to use AutoConfiguration to configure the Tomcat jdbc pooled data sources.
I am using these Spring dependencies:
// Spring Boot
compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:1.3.5.RELEASE'
compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-jdbc:1.3.5.RELEASE'
Here are my datasource properties in my application.yml file:
spring:
datasource:
url: jdbc:mysql://my.host/mydb
username: user
password: pwd
driver-class-name: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
initialSize: 5
I am sure the properties are being loaded because the app is picking up other values.
I define the bean in my config file as:
#Bean(name="myDataSource")
#ConfigurationProperties(prefix="spring.datasource")
public DataSource getDataSource() {
DataSource dataSource = DataSourceBuilder.create().build()
return dataSource
}
And I inject the datasource into my DAO like this:
#Slf4j
#Repository
class MyDAO {
#Autowired
DataSource dataSource
public void getFoo() {
log.info("DB URL: ${dataSource.getUrl()}")
}
}
If I set a breakpoint in the getDataSource() method, the DataSourceBuilder will create an instance of DataSource. However, all the properties of that object like URL, user and password are all null. Also, when I call getFoo(), the dataSource variable is null. I have tried commenting out the bean definition in my AppConfig. The dataSource is still null. Any suggestions?
I looked through the Spring Boot documentation and my Spring book but I didn't see any examples like this. I see examples where I create the DataSource myself. But I was hoping Spring's auto-configuration would tie this stuff together automatically.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Answer 1

By creating your own bean, you're actually switching off Boot's auto-configuration of a DataSource. You can just delete your getDataSource method and let Boot auto-configure one instead.

Answer 2

Based on Andy's comments I found out that I had two problems. First of all, I needed to include the JPA dependency to the project. I added this line to my build.gradle file:
compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa:1.3.5.RELEASE'
Second, I was creating instances of MyDAO using new(). I fixed this by creating a service class that used #Autowired to inject an instance of MyDAO. Once the DAO became a Spring managed bean, it was able to inject the instance of DataSource from the Tomcat connection pool.