Liquibase is an open source tool for database schema change management.

Quarkus provides first class support for using Liquibase as will be explained in this guide.

Solution

We recommend that you follow the instructions in the next sections and create the application step by step. However, you can go right to the completed example.

Clone the Git repository: git clone https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus-quickstarts.git, or download an archive.

The solution is located in the liquibase-quickstart directory.

Setting up support for Liquibase

To start using Liquibase with your project, you just need to:

  • add your changeLog to the src/main/resources/db/changeLog.xml file as you usually do with Liquibase

  • activate the migrate-at-start option to migrate the schema automatically or inject the Liquibase object and run your migration as you normally do.

In your pom.xml, add the following dependencies:

  • the Liquibase extension

  • your JDBC driver extension (quarkus-jdbc-postgresql, quarkus-jdbc-h2, quarkus-jdbc-mariadb, …​)

pom.xml
<!-- Liquibase specific dependencies -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>quarkus-liquibase</artifactId>
</dependency>

<!-- JDBC driver dependencies -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
    <artifactId>quarkus-jdbc-postgresql</artifactId>
</dependency>
build.gradle
// Liquibase specific dependencies
implementation("io.quarkus:quarkus-liquibase")

// JDBC driver dependencies
implementation("io.quarkus:quarkus-jdbc-postgresql")

Liquibase support relies on the Quarkus datasource config. It can be customized for the default datasource as well as for every named datasource. First, you need to add the datasource config to the application.properties file in order to allow Liquibase to manage the schema.

The following is an example for the application.properties file:

# configure your datasource
quarkus.datasource.db-kind=postgresql
quarkus.datasource.username=sarah
quarkus.datasource.password=connor
quarkus.datasource.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/mydatabase

# Liquibase minimal config properties
quarkus.liquibase.migrate-at-start=true

# Liquibase optional config properties
# quarkus.liquibase.change-log=db/changeLog.xml
# quarkus.liquibase.validate-on-migrate=true
# quarkus.liquibase.clean-at-start=false
# quarkus.liquibase.database-change-log-lock-table-name=DATABASECHANGELOGLOCK
# quarkus.liquibase.database-change-log-table-name=DATABASECHANGELOG
# quarkus.liquibase.contexts=Context1,Context2
# quarkus.liquibase.labels=Label1,Label2
# quarkus.liquibase.default-catalog-name=DefaultCatalog
# quarkus.liquibase.default-schema-name=DefaultSchema
# quarkus.liquibase.liquibase-catalog-name=liquibaseCatalog
# quarkus.liquibase.liquibase-schema-name=liquibaseSchema
# quarkus.liquibase.liquibase-tablespace-name=liquibaseSpace

Add a changeLog file to the default folder following the Liquibase naming conventions: src/main/resources/db/changeLog.xml The yaml, json, xml and sql changeLog file formats are also supported.

<?xml version="1.1" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<databaseChangeLog xmlns="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog"
    xmlns:ext="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext
    https://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-ext.xsd
    http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog
    https://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-4.4.xsd">

    <changeSet author="quarkus" id="1">
        <createTable tableName="quarkus">
            <column name="ID" type="VARCHAR(255)">
                <constraints nullable="false"/>
            </column>
            <column name="NAME" type="VARCHAR(255)"/>
        </createTable>
    </changeSet>
</databaseChangeLog>

Now you can start your application and Quarkus will run the Liquibase’s update method according to your config:

import org.quarkus.liquibase.LiquibaseFactory; (1)

@ApplicationScoped
public class MigrationService {
    // You can Inject the object if you want to use it manually
    @Inject
    LiquibaseFactory liquibaseFactory; (2)

    public void checkMigration() {
        // Get the list of liquibase change set statuses
        try (Liquibase liquibase = liquibaseFactory.createLiquibase()) {
            List<ChangeSetStatus> status = liquibase.getChangeSetStatuses(liquibaseFactory.createContexts(), liquibaseFactory.createLabels());
        }
    }
}
1 The Quarkus extension provides a factory to initialize a Liquibase instance
2 Inject the Quarkus liquibase factory if you want to use the liquibase methods directly

Multiple datasources

Liquibase can be configured for multiple datasources. The Liquibase properties are prefixed exactly the same way as the named datasources, for example:

quarkus.datasource.db-kind=h2
quarkus.datasource.username=username-default
quarkus.datasource.jdbc.url=jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/mem:default
quarkus.datasource.jdbc.max-size=13

quarkus.datasource.users.db-kind=h2
quarkus.datasource.users.username=username1
quarkus.datasource.users.jdbc.url=jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/mem:users
quarkus.datasource.users.jdbc.max-size=11

quarkus.datasource.inventory.db-kind=h2
quarkus.datasource.inventory.username=username2
quarkus.datasource.inventory.jdbc.url=jdbc:h2:tcp://localhost/mem:inventory
quarkus.datasource.inventory.jdbc.max-size=12

# Liquibase configuration for the default datasource
quarkus.liquibase.schemas=DEFAULT_TEST_SCHEMA
quarkus.liquibase.change-log=db/changeLog.xml
quarkus.liquibase.migrate-at-start=true

# Liquibase configuration for the "users" datasource
quarkus.liquibase.users.schemas=USERS_TEST_SCHEMA
quarkus.liquibase.users.change-log=db/users.xml
quarkus.liquibase.users.migrate-at-start=true

# Liquibase configuration for the "inventory" datasource
quarkus.liquibase.inventory.schemas=INVENTORY_TEST_SCHEMA
quarkus.liquibase.inventory.change-log=db/inventory.xml
quarkus.liquibase.inventory.migrate-at-start=true

Notice there’s an extra bit in the key. The syntax is as follows: quarkus.liquibase.[optional name.][datasource property].

Without configuration, Liquibase is set up for every datasource using the default settings.

Using the Liquibase object

In case you are interested in using the Liquibase object directly, you can inject it as follows:

If you enabled the quarkus.liquibase.migrate-at-start property, by the time you use the Liquibase instance, Quarkus will already have run the migrate operation. 
import org.quarkus.liquibase.LiquibaseFactory;

@ApplicationScoped
public class MigrationService {
    // You can Inject the object if you want to use it manually
    @Inject
    LiquibaseFactory liquibaseFactory; (1)

    @Inject
    @LiquibaseDataSource("inventory") (2)
    LiquibaseFactory liquibaseFactoryForInventory;

    @Inject
    @Named("liquibase_users") (3)
    LiquibaseFactory liquibaseFactoryForUsers;

    public void checkMigration() {
        // Use the liquibase instance manually
        try (Liquibase liquibase = liquibaseFactory.createLiquibase()) {
            liquibase.dropAll(); (4)
            liquibase.validate();
            liquibase.update(liquibaseFactory.createContexts(), liquibaseFactory.createLabels());
            // Get the list of liquibase change set statuses
            List<ChangeSetStatus> status = liquibase.getChangeSetStatuses(liquibaseFactory.createContexts(), liquibaseFactory.createLabels()); (5)
        }
    }
}
1 Inject the LiquibaseFactory object
2 Inject Liquibase for named datasources using the Quarkus LiquibaseDataSource qualifier
3 Inject Liquibase for named datasources
4 Use the Liquibase instance directly
5 List of applied or not applied liquibase ChangeSets

Configuration Reference