SpringBoot Liquibase Support of rollback automatically

[abhiptl]

We have a Spring boot application with liquibase configuration to apply database change sets. When we deploy the application(1.0.1) then it automatically applies change sets in the database. But, if I want to roll back the application to the previous version(1.0.0) and when we deploy the previous version(1.0.0), Spring Boot cannot roll back database changes that were applied during the 1.0.1 deployment.

I found spring.liquibase.tag and spring.liquibase.rollback-file but these options are not helping much as it just generates the rollback-file of the deployed version which I have to use later on for rollback. Also, spring.liquibase.rollback-file generates files only when we deploy the application. Now, the application is deployed in some containerized platform(Openshift or Kubernetes), and it is difficult to get that generated rollback file.

Ideally, when we deploy the previous version(1.0.0), spring boot liquibase should automatically revert all the database changes made after 1.0.0(which 1.0.1 in this case)

If this feature is already available, can you point that to me? Or can we implement this feature?

[wilkinsona]

Spring Boot's limited to the API that's provided by Liquibase's SpringLiquibase class and it does not provide an API to do what you've described. Support for the Customizer functionality in SpringLiquibase is coming in Spring Boot 3.4 and you may be able to use that to work with the lower-level Liquibase API.

Beyond the above, I don't think there's much more we can do here as we're not Liquibase experts. I think your question would be better aimed at the Liquibase community. You may be able to use one of the various rollback methods on Liquibase to do what you want but they will be able to offer better guidance. If, once you've learned that it is possible to do what you want with the Liquibase API, please circle back here if you think Spring Boot could do something to make it easier and we can re-open the issue and take another look.