After using gradle-flyway plugin to create test database, how to reference db created in c3p0 config? - gradle

Question

I was trying to accomplish the following
1) Create h2 database using gradle-flyway plugin before tests run. I was able to create it and place it under ${buildDir}
flyway {
url = "jdbc:h2:file:${buildDir}/db/test/xxxdb"
user = 'root'
locations = [
'classpath:sql'
]
}
2) My goal was to write integration tests against this db created in step 1. I am using c3p0 for pooling and here is my configuration.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<c3p0-config>
<default-config>
<property name="driverClass">org.h2.Driver</property>
**<property name="jdbcUrl">jdbc:h2:file:#buildDir#/db/test/xxxdb</property>**
<property name="user">xxx</property>
<property name="password">xxx</property>
<property name="minPoolSize">1</property>
<property name="maxPoolSize">50</property>
<property name="acquireIncrement">1</property>
</default-config>
</c3p0-config>
Questions:
a) How do I configure c3p0 to reference the h2 database present in the build directory created in step 1. c3p0 wants absolute path in jdbcUrl property.
b) I configured gradle to replace #buildDir# with appropriate value using this below gradle task. So the database jdbcUrl is configured correctly for c3p0 when I do "gradle build". But when I run the tests though intelliJ, it still reads the jdbcUrl with value containing "#buildDir#" as intellij does not run processTestResources task before running the test.
processTestResources {
filter(ReplaceTokens, tokens: [buildDir: buildDir.getAbsolutePath()])
}
Any ideas on how to solve this issue?

Answer 1

Thanks Mark for your comments. For relative paths, this is the syntax I had used and now it works with both gradle and intellij.
jdbc:h2:file:./db/test/xxxdb