Liquibase 3.1 Extension Upgrade Guide

For must Liquibase end users, Liquibase 3.1 is a drop-in replacement for any Liquibase 3.0 version.

If you are using with relative paths or running against InterSystems Cache, SAP MaxDB or IBM DB2 for iSeries see the notes below.

For developers of Liquibase extensions, there has been some Java API changes that may impact your code.

2.x to 3.0 upgrade guide

Change to how referenced files are tracked

With certain builds in 3.0.x, using with relativeToChangeLog caused the file path stored in DATABASECHANGELOG to have the full physical path, rather than classpath relative paths.

With 3.1.0, this bug is fixed, but if you have changelogs that have already ran, Liquibase may attempt to re-execute them because the filepath column is part of the changeset identifier and it now sees it as different.

You can resolve the problem in one of two ways:

  • Set a logicalFilePath in the included changelogs equal to the full path as it was stored before
  • Manually update your DATABASECHANGELOG table to strip off the extra portion of the path. The SQL will vary by database, but an example for mysql would be:
update DATABASECHANGELOG set FILENAME=REPLACE(filename, 'c:\my\root\path', '')

Less common database support moved to extensions

If you are using Liquibase with Cache, MaxDB or DB2 for iSeries, support has been moved out of Liquibase core and into extensions.

To re-enable support for these databases, install the corresponding extension:

Class liquibase.executor.Executor changes

The liquibase.executor.Executor queryForList methods now return List<Map<String, ?>> rather than just List<Map>.

Interface liquibase.database.Database changes

There is a new addReservedWords(words) method to implement. If extending AbstractJdbcDatabase, the default implementation should work for you.

The following methods were removed from liquibase.database.Database in favor of extensible service implementations:

3.03.1
hasDatabaseChangeLogLockTable() ((StandardLockService)liquibase.lockservice.LockServiceFactory.getInstance().getLockService(database)).hasDatabaseChangeLogLockTable()
checkDatabaseChangeLogLockTable() liquibase.lockservice.LockServiceFactory.getInstance().getLockService(database).init()
checkDatabaseChangeLogTable(updateExistingNullChecksums, databaseChangeLog, contexts) liquibase.changelog.ChangeLogServiceFactory.getInstance().getChangeLogService(database).init()
hasDatabaseChangeLogTable() ((StandardChangeLogHistoryService) liquibase.changelog.ChangeLogServiceFactory.getInstance().getChangeLogService(database)).hasDatabaseChangeLogTable()
getNextChangeSetSequenceValue() liquibase.changelog.ChangeLogServiceFactory.getInstance().getChangeLogService(database).getNextSequenceValue()

Interface liquibase.lockservice.LockService changes

New methods were added to the LockService interface:

  • init()
  • destroy()

The class liquibase.lockservice.LockServiceImpl has been renamed to liquibase.lockservice.StandardLockService, although a deprecated placeholder with the old name was introduced for backwards compatibility.

Interface liquibase.changelog.visitor.ChangeExecListener changes

New methods were added to the ChangeExecListener interface:

  • preconditionFailed
  • preconditionErrored
  • willRun
  • ran

Interface liquibase.snapshot.SnapshotGenerator changes

A new replaces() method was added to SnapshotGenerator. The default implementation in JdbcSnapshotGenerator is a no-op which should work for most uses.

Standardized ResourceAccessor handling of missing files

CommandLineResourceAccessor now returns null if a file does not exist rather than throwing an IOException. This behavior now matches the other ResourceAccessors.

An IOException should only be thrown by a ResourceAccessor if the file exists but there is a problem reading it.