Failed to Configure a Datasource: 'Url' Attribute Is Not Specified and No Embedded Datasource Could Be Configured

Just add : @SpringBootApplication(exclude = {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class }) works for me.

I was getting same error I tried with @EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude=...) didn't work.

Your problem is the dependency of spring batch spring-boot-starter-batch that has a spring-boot-starter-jdbc transitive maven dependency.

Spring Batch is a framework for building reliable and fault tolerance enterprise batch jobs. It supports many features like restarting a failed batch, recording the status of the batch execution and so on. In order to achieve that Spring Batch uses a database schema to store the status of the registered jobs, the auto-configuration already provides you the basic configuration of the required data source and it is this configuration that requires the relational database configuration.

To solve this you must include some database driver like mysql, h2, etc. to configure the url.

Update: Just for getting start you can configure your application.yml like below:

spring:
  datasource:
    driver-class-name: org.h2.Driver
    url: jdbc:h2:mem:localhost;DB_CLOSE_ON_EXIT=FALSE
    username: admin
    password:

and of course in your pom.xml include the h2 dirver like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="" xmlns:xsi=""
         xsi:schemaLocation=" ">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>demo</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <name>demo</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.3.RELEASE</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
       ....
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
            <artifactId>h2</artifactId>
        </dependency>

....
    </dependencies>
...

</project>

The motivation, because you can not use mongo for this purpose, is that the usage of mongo is provided only for item readers and writers and not for managing the internal database of Spring Batch that is an internal schema, not a business schema. The query is plain SQL query and the internal abstraction relies on a relational database. It is necessary to have a database with ACID capability because every batch reads and writes a chunk of work and saves that information in order to restart the job. A NoSql solution is not suitable for this.

At the end you have configured a relational database in order to prepare Spring Batch for internal capability, the internal abstraction does not rely on mongo only on jdbc. Then mongo can be used but for the business side of the batch via item reader/writer.

I hope that this can help you to clear your doubts.

Root Cause

The JPA (Java persistence API) is a java specification for ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) tools. The spring-boot-starter-data-jpa dependency enables ORM in the context of the spring boot framework.

The JPA auto configuration feature of the spring boot application attempts to establish database connection using JPA Datasource. The JPA DataSource bean requires database driver to connect to a database.

The database driver should be available as a dependency in the pom.xml file. For the external databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySql, DB2, Postgres, MongoDB etc requires the database JDBC connection properties to establish the connection.

You need to configure the database driver and the JDBC connection properties to fix this exception Failed to configure a DataSource: ‘url’ attribute is not specified and no embedded datasource could be configured. Reason: Failed to determine a suitable driver class.

application.properties

spring.autoconfigure.exclude=org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration 

application.yaml

spring:
  autoconfigure:
    exclude: org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration

By Programming

@SpringBootApplication(exclude =  {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class })

Not to the point of the question (can be related though), but, if you bootstrap a new project and wondering why do you get the same error, it may come from the artifactId of spring-boot-starter-data-jpa in the dependency section. I gave the dependency below. You will need to define the database to get rid of this.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>

Excluding the DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class worked for me:

@SpringBootApplication(exclude = {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class })

This link helped.

Spring Boot auto-configuration tries to configure beans automatically based on the dependencies added to the classpath. And because we have a JPA dependency (spring-data-starter-jpa) on our classpath, it tries to configure it.

The problem: Spring boot doesn't have the all the info needed to configure the JPA data source i.e. the JDBC connection properties. Solutions:

1. provide the JDBC connection properties (best)
2. postpone supplying connection properties by excluding some AutoConfig classes (temporary - should be removed eventually)

The above link excludes the DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class with

@SpringBootApplication(exclude={DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class})

But this didn't work for me. I instead, had to exclude 2 AutoConfig classes:

@SpringBootApplication(exclude = {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class, XADataSourceAutoConfiguration.class})

“Failed to configure a DataSource” error. First, we fixed the issue by defining the data source. Next, we discussed how to work around the issue without configuring the data source at all.

I have added this annotation on the main class of my spring boot application and everything is working perfectly

@SpringBootApplication(exclude = {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class })

It can be that your resources directory is not added to classpath when creating a project via Spring Initializr. So your application is never loading the application.properties file that you have configured.

To make a quick test if this is the case, add the following to your application.properties file:

server.port=8081

Now when running your application you should see in the spring boot console output something like this:

INFO  o.s.b.w.e.tomcat.TomcatWebServer - Tomcat started on port(s): **8081** (http) with context path ''

If your port is still default 8080 and not changed to 8081, your application.properties files is obviously not loading.

You can also check if your application runs with gradle bootRun from command line. Which most likely will be work.

Solution:

1. Close IntelliJ, then inside your project folder delete the ".idea" folder
2. Reimport your project to IntelliJ like following: "Import Project" -> "select ONLY your build.gradle file to import". (IntelliJ will automatically grab the rest)
3. build and run your application again

See official answer by IntelliJ Support: IDEA-221673

I had the same issue resolved by add <scope>provided</scope>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

Source:

As a summary with a latest 2021 spring-boot release 2.5.0

If you have as minimum these entries in your application.properties

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/db
spring.datasource.driver-class-name=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver

And these dependencies in your pom.xml

<dependency>
  <groupId>mysql</groupId>
  <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>

You should not have this error:

Failed to configure a DataSource: 'url' attribute is not specified and no embedded datasource could be configured.
Reason: Failed to determine a suitable driver class

It was the IDE in my case

No matter if you are using eclipse or intellij, application must run over linux in real environments. So to validate if is an IDE problem, run your app using shell

mvn spring-boot:run

If it starts without error, the problem is in your IDE