Liquibase Command validate

It is always good to validate script files before executing them against the database, it helps avoid errors. Liquibase provides validate command that checks any possible error in the ChangeLog file that may result in updation failure. validate command check following errors

  • ChangeLog and ChangeSet are structurally correct
  • All included reference files are present
  • ChangeSet attributes like id, and author are not duplicate
  • ChangeSet checksum are correct

validate command only looks for structural errors, it doesn't check ChangeLog or ChangeSet against the database update

<?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:pro="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog-ext http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-ext.xsd http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/pro/liquibase-pro-latest.xsd http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-latest.xsd">
	<changeSet author="wesome" id="1692446190573-1">
		<createTable catalogName="appledb" tableName="apple">
			<column autoIncrement="true" name="apple_id" type="BIGINT">
				<constraints nullable="false " primaryKey="true" />
			</column>
			<column name="apple_name" type="VARCHAR(255)" />
			<column defaultValueComputed="CURRENT_TIMESTAMP" name="current_date_time" type="datetime" />
		</createTable>
	</changeSet>
	<changeSet author="wesome" id="1692701200879-2">
		<insert catalogName="appledb" tableName="apple">
			<column name="apple_name" value="Fuji" />
			<column name="current_date_time" valueDate="now()" />
		</insert>
	</changeSet>
	<changeSet author="wesome" id="1692701200879-3">
		<insert catalogName="appledb" tableName="apple">
			<column name="apple_name" value="Gala" />
			<column name="current_date_time" valueDate="now()" />
		</insert>
	</changeSet>
</databaseChangeLog>

liquibase.properties (update changeLog File file format with SQL, XML, YAML, JSON as per changelog.mysql.)

changeLogFile=changelog.mysql.xml
liquibase.command.url:jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/appleDb?createDatabaseIfNotExist=true&autoReconnect=true&useSSL=false&allowPublicKeyRetrieval=true
liquibase.command.username : root
liquibase.command.password : rootroot

execute command

liquibase validate

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