grails database migration plugin problems after upgrade to grails 3 - spring

Question

I was using a previous version grails-database-migration plugin for a while and never had any big issues with it. However, lately I upgraded the whole project to grails 3.0.9 and did some additional development, the behavior as follows:
Imported the current prod DB structure into local machine (that DB copy is without the latest changes and new entities)
Execute: grails -Dgrails.env=staging dbm-gorm-diff changlog.xml
What I expected at this point is new changlog.xml file with all changes of existing entities and new ones.
What I get:
Newly defined entities automatically got added into the DB.
The changes in changlog.xml only included the changes of already existing tables, such as:
also, If I try running grails -Dgrails.env=staging run-app
ERROR grails.boot.GrailsApp - Application startup failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'springLiquibase_dataSource': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: liquibase.integration.spring.SpringLiquibase.createDatabase(Ljava/sql/Connection;Lliquibase/resource/ResourceAccessor;)Lliquibase/database/Database;
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':bootRun'.
Process 'command '/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_65.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java''
finished with non-zero exit value 1
...
...
Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. | Error Failed to start server (Use --stacktrace to see the full trace)
Here is the portion of my application.yml
dataSource:
pooled: true
url: jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/triz?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8
driverClassName: "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
jmxExport: true
username: root
password: password
dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
properties:
jmxEnabled: true
initialSize: 5
maxActive: 50
minIdle: 5
maxIdle: 25
maxWait: 10000
maxAge: 600000
timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis: 5000
minEvictableIdleTimeMillis: 60000
validationQuery: SELECT 1
validationQueryTimeout: 3
validationInterval: 15000
testOnBorrow: true
testWhileIdle: true
testOnReturn: false
jdbcInterceptors: ConnectionState
defaultTransactionIsolation: 2
environments:
development:
dataSource:
dbCreate: create
# url: jdbc:h2:mem:devDb;MVCC=TRUE;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
test:
dataSource:
dbCreate: update
url: jdbc:h2:mem:testDb;MVCC=TRUE;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
staging:
dataSource:
url: jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/triz_staging?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8
and gradle.build
buildscript {
ext {
grailsVersion = project.grailsVersion
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
mavenLocal()
maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
}
dependencies {
classpath "org.grails:grails-gradle-plugin:$grailsVersion"
classpath 'com.bertramlabs.plugins:asset-pipeline-gradle:2.5.0'
// classpath 'com.bertramlabs.plugins:less-asset-pipeline:2.6.7'
classpath "org.grails.plugins:hibernate:4.3.10.5"
classpath 'org.grails.plugins:database-migration:2.0.0.RC4'
}
}
...
...
dependencies {
...
compile 'org.liquibase:liquibase-core:3.3.2'
runtime 'org.grails.plugins:database-migration:2.0.0.RC4'
}
UPDATE
I have another way to approach this problem:
My plan was to generate a changelog based on my current prod DB and then generate a diff for the changes I made. Sounds simple and straightforward; however, it didn't work out as expected. Here is what I did:
Dumped prod DB
Removed liquibase tables
Run: grails dbm-generate-changelog changelog-init.xml --add
At this point, I expected changelog-init.xml to contain the current state of DB. But, instead it applied the changes based on my models first, and then tried generating the diff. Eventually, I ended up with a changelog including my entire existing DB with changes applied from gorm.
What am I doing wrong here?
Additional Observations
It looks like, whenever I try to run ANY migration related commands, grails applies all the changes before that, even through my config says:
staging:
dataSource:
dbCreate: ~
url: jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:3306/triz_staging?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8
properties:
jmxEnabled: true
Also tried completely removing dbCreate. Didn't change anything...
I am done, have no idea where to move next!!!

Answer 1

Well, here is a deal...
I am not sure if that was the real reason, but all I did is moved datasource config from application.yml to application.groovy and everything got back to normal.
I would be happy to hear thoughts.
Thanks.