The changeLogFile must be specified error on Liquibase

Question

I am new to Liquibase and i tried to using the liquibase with postgres database to create database tables using liquibase script. What i did is, i already created Postgres tables manually and by running the command

mvn liquibase:generateChangeLog

i created liquibase-outputChangeLog.xml file. Now i try to update that script and create one more table in the database. For that i write the XML code in my changeLog.xml file for that new table and try to execute the command

mvn liquibase:update

But its giving me below error

The ChangeLogFile must be specified.

Below is my POM.xml file.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>tech.sample</groupId>
        <artifactId>common-starter-test</artifactId>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>tech.sample</groupId>
        <artifactId>common-starter-logging</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.liquibase</groupId>
        <artifactId>liquibase-core</artifactId>
        <version>3.8.7</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.liquibase</groupId>
        <artifactId>liquibase-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.8.7</version>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
        <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
        <version>42.2.5</version>
    </dependency>

</dependencies>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
        <!--Sonar Plugins-->
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.sonarsource.scanner.maven</groupId>
            <artifactId>sonar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
            <artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>com.github.temyers</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-jvm-parallel-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.liquibase</groupId>
            <artifactId>liquibase-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.4.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <propertyFile>src/main/resources/liquibase.properties</propertyFile>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>update</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Could any one of them please help me, whats wrong here.

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Answer 1

I think the issue is that in your property file as specified in your pom.xml <propertyFile>src/main/resources/liquibase.properties</propertyFile> you have used ChangeLogFile (with a capital C) rather than changeLogFile (with a lower case C). Note the error message shows the correct casing.

Answer 2

For db updates you must specify the property changeLogFile in your pom.xml , in the plugin liquibase-maven-plugin section. See the snippet:

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.liquibase</groupId>
            <artifactId>liquibase-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>${liquibase.version}</version>
            <configuration>                  
                <propertyFile>src/main/resources/db/liquibase.properties</propertyFile>
                <changeLogFile>src/main/resources/db/updateDb.xml</changeLogFile>
            </configuration>
        </plugin> 

Ran on liquibase 4.7.1

Here the complete MVN log:

    :$ /opt/apache-maven-3.6.3/bin/mvn liquibase:update
    [] Scanning for projects...
    [] 
    [] it.invallee.webapp.simbo-ws:simbo-ws
    [] 
    [] 
    [] 
    [] liquibase-maven-plugin:4.7.1:update  @ simbo-ws
    [] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [project, pluginDescriptor]
    [] Parsing Liquibase Properties File
    []   File: src/main/resources/db/liquibase.properties
    []   'outputChangeLogFile' in properties file is not being used by this task.
    [] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [] 
    [] 
    [] Liquibase Community 4.7.1 by Liquibase
    [] ####################################################
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    ##                                                ## 
    ##  Get documentation at docs.liquibase.com       ##
    ##  Get certified courses at learn.liquibase.com  ## 
    ##  Free schema change activity reports at        ##
    ##      https://hub.liquibase.com                 ##
    ##                                                ##
    ####################################################
    Starting Liquibase at 16:05:17 (version 4.7.1 #1239 built at 2022-01-20 20:31+0000)
    [] Set default schema name to public
    [] Parsing Liquibase Properties File src/main/resources/db/liquibase.properties for changeLog parameters
    [] Executing on Database: jdbc:postgresql://XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:5432/simbo
    [] Successfully acquired change log lock
    [] Reading from databasechangelog
    Running Changeset: src/main/resources/db/updateDb.xml::1::bob
    [] Table department created
    [] ChangeSet src/main/resources/db/updateDb.xml::1::bob ran successfully in 16ms
    [] Successfully released change log lock
    [] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [] 
    [] 
    [] 
    [] 
    [] Total time:  2.073 s
    [] Finished at: 2022-01-28T16:05:18+01:00
    [] 

Answer 3

You should move to liquibase version 4.11.0

and change changeLogFile to outputChangeLogFile

Hope that's help

Answer 4

When you change something in liquibase.properties , you should compile source code every time. mvn compile