I'm maintaining a Play project which I have recently updated from Play 2.3 to 2.5.4. One of the changes this includes is an update of slick and play-slick.
My team is using Vertica as our underlying db. Although Slick does not technically provide support for Vertica, in the previous version I was able to use Vertica with the following application.conf setup:
[ERROR] [10/06/2016 16:30:40.942] [p.a.d.s.DefaultSlickApi] [*] Failed to create Slick database config for key default.
slick.SlickException: Error getting instance of Slick driver "slick.driver.JdbcDriver$class"
at slick.backend.DatabaseConfig$.forConfig(DatabaseConfig.scala:65)
at play.api.db.slick.DefaultSlickApi$DatabaseConfigFactory.create(SlickApi.scala:89)
at play.api.db.slick.DefaultSlickApi$DatabaseConfigFactory.get$lzycompute(SlickApi.scala:81)
at play.api.db.slick.DefaultSlickApi$DatabaseConfigFactory.get(SlickApi.scala:80)
at play.api.db.slick.DefaultSlickApi.dbConfig(SlickApi.scala:66)
at play.api.db.slick.NamedDatabaseConfigProvider$$anon$1.get(SlickModule.scala:59)
at utils.liger.DimensionMapper.<init>(DimensionMapper.scala:32)
at utils.liger.DimensionMapper$$FastClassByGuice$$1320fe73.newInstance(<generated>)
at com.google.inject.internal.cglib.reflect.$FastConstructor.newInstance(FastConstructor.java:40)
at com.google.inject.internal.DefaultConstructionProxyFactory$1.newInstance(DefaultConstructionProxyFactory.java:61)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.provision(ConstructorInjector.java:105)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.construct(ConstructorInjector.java:85)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorBindingImpl$Factory.get(ConstructorBindingImpl.java:267)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.inject(SingleParameterInjector.java:38)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.getAll(SingleParameterInjector.java:62)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.provision(ConstructorInjector.java:104)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.construct(ConstructorInjector.java:85)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorBindingImpl$Factory.get(ConstructorBindingImpl.java:267)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.inject(SingleParameterInjector.java:38)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.getAll(SingleParameterInjector.java:62)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.provision(ConstructorInjector.java:104)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.construct(ConstructorInjector.java:85)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorBindingImpl$Factory.get(ConstructorBindingImpl.java:267)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.inject(SingleParameterInjector.java:38)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.getAll(SingleParameterInjector.java:62)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.provision(ConstructorInjector.java:104)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.construct(ConstructorInjector.java:85)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorBindingImpl$Factory.get(ConstructorBindingImpl.java:267)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl$2$1.call(InjectorImpl.java:1016)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl.callInContext(InjectorImpl.java:1103)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl$2.get(InjectorImpl.java:1012)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl.getInstance(InjectorImpl.java:1051)
at play.api.inject.guice.GuiceInjector.instanceOf(GuiceInjectorBuilder.scala:405)
at play.api.inject.RoutesProvider$$anonfun$2.apply(BuiltinModule.scala:82)
at play.api.inject.RoutesProvider$$anonfun$2.apply(BuiltinModule.scala:82)
at scala.Option.fold(Option.scala:158)
at play.api.inject.RoutesProvider.get$lzycompute(BuiltinModule.scala:82)
at play.api.inject.RoutesProvider.get(BuiltinModule.scala:78)
at play.api.inject.RoutesProvider.get(BuiltinModule.scala:77)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProviderInternalFactory.provision(ProviderInternalFactory.java:81)
at com.google.inject.internal.BoundProviderFactory.provision(BoundProviderFactory.java:72)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProviderInternalFactory.circularGet(ProviderInternalFactory.java:61)
at com.google.inject.internal.BoundProviderFactory.get(BoundProviderFactory.java:62)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.inject(SingleParameterInjector.java:38)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.getAll(SingleParameterInjector.java:62)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.provision(ConstructorInjector.java:104)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.construct(ConstructorInjector.java:85)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorBindingImpl$Factory.get(ConstructorBindingImpl.java:267)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.inject(SingleParameterInjector.java:38)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.getAll(SingleParameterInjector.java:62)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.provision(ConstructorInjector.java:104)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.construct(ConstructorInjector.java:85)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorBindingImpl$Factory.get(ConstructorBindingImpl.java:267)
at com.google.inject.internal.FactoryProxy.get(FactoryProxy.java:56)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.inject(SingleParameterInjector.java:38)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.getAll(SingleParameterInjector.java:62)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.provision(ConstructorInjector.java:104)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.construct(ConstructorInjector.java:85)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorBindingImpl$Factory.get(ConstructorBindingImpl.java:267)
at com.google.inject.internal.FactoryProxy.get(FactoryProxy.java:56)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.inject(SingleParameterInjector.java:38)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingleParameterInjector.getAll(SingleParameterInjector.java:62)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.provision(ConstructorInjector.java:104)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorInjector.construct(ConstructorInjector.java:85)
at com.google.inject.internal.ConstructorBindingImpl$Factory.get(ConstructorBindingImpl.java:267)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter$1.call(ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter.java:46)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl.callInContext(InjectorImpl.java:1103)
at com.google.inject.internal.ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter.get(ProviderToInternalFactoryAdapter.java:40)
at com.google.inject.internal.SingletonScope$1.get(SingletonScope.java:145)
at com.google.inject.internal.InternalFactoryToProviderAdapter.get(InternalFactoryToProviderAdapter.java:41)
at com.google.inject.internal.FactoryProxy.get(FactoryProxy.java:56)
at com.google.inject.internal.InternalInjectorCreator$1.call(InternalInjectorCreator.java:205)
at com.google.inject.internal.InternalInjectorCreator$1.call(InternalInjectorCreator.java:199)
at com.google.inject.internal.InjectorImpl.callInContext(InjectorImpl.java:1092)
at com.google.inject.internal.InternalInjectorCreator.loadEagerSingletons(InternalInjectorCreator.java:199)
at com.google.inject.internal.InternalInjectorCreator.injectDynamically(InternalInjectorCreator.java:180)
at com.google.inject.internal.InternalInjectorCreator.build(InternalInjectorCreator.java:110)
at com.google.inject.Guice.createInjector(Guice.java:96)
at com.google.inject.Guice.createInjector(Guice.java:84)
at play.api.inject.guice.GuiceBuilder.injector(GuiceInjectorBuilder.scala:181)
at play.api.inject.guice.GuiceApplicationBuilder.build(GuiceApplicationBuilder.scala:123)
at play.api.inject.guice.GuiceApplicationLoader.load(GuiceApplicationLoader.scala:21)
at play.core.server.ProdServerStart$.start(ProdServerStart.scala:47)
at play.core.server.ProdServerStart$.main(ProdServerStart.scala:22)
at play.core.server.ProdServerStart.main(ProdServerStart.scala)
Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: slick.driver.JdbcDriver$class
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:427)
at slick.backend.DatabaseConfig$.forConfig(DatabaseConfig.scala:63)
... 84 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: slick.driver.JdbcDriver$class.<init>()
at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:3082)
at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:412)
... 85 common frames omitted
I'm willing to do what it takes to help slick work with Vertica, but I don't know where to start. Does anyone see anything I may have missed or have any advice on where to go to get started?