I am unable to connect to the Heroku Postgres database

I'm trying to connect to the bank, but it's giving this error here when I try:

APPLICATION FAILED TO START

Description:

Failed to configure a DataSource: no embedded datasource could be configured.

Reason: Failed to determine a suitable driver class

Action:

Consider the following: If you want an embedded database (H2, HSQL or Derby), please put it on the classpath. If you have database settings to be loaded from a particular profile you may need to activate it (no profiles are currently active).

My application properties:

spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.jdbc.lob.non_contextual_creation=true
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgres://********:******:port/database
spring.datasource.username=******
spring.datasource.password=*** 

spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update
spring.http.cors.enabled=true

My pom:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>2.6.2</version>
        <relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.bird</groupId>
    <artifactId>bird</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>bird</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
    <properties>
        <java.version>11</java.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
            <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

Solution 1:

Set followings

In your application.properties

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://<HOST>:<PORT>/<DATABASE>
spring.datasource.username=<USER>
spring.datasource.password=<PASSWORD>
spring.datasource.driver-classname=org.postgresql.Driver

pom.xml

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
        <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
        <version>42.2.20</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

From your heroku postgres administration Settings option you can inspect the values

Bonus : More appropriate option would be capture the application.properties values from environment. To do so change your application properties like following

spring.datasource.url=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL}
spring.datasource.username=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME}
spring.datasource.password=${SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD}
spring.datasource.driver-classname=org.postgresql.Driver

Then in heroku dashboard your application settings there is a option named Reveal config var.

There add following environment variables

SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL=jdbc:postgresql://<HOST>:<PORT>/<DATABASE>
SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME=<USER>
SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD=<PASSWORD>

Thus your application stays decoupled from the environment.