google app engine - java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not load JDBC driver class [com.mysql.jdbc.GoogleDriver]

Question

I am trying to connect to my database from the Google Flexible Environment to the Google Cloud SQL. The connection string and the driver class are shown below:

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
    <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.GoogleDriver" />
    <property name="url" value="jdbc:google:mysql://mz-test:us-central1:mz-life-cloudsql-prod/mz_db" />
    <property name="username" value="root" />
    <property name="password" value="" />
</bean>

However, I am currently getting

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: 
    Error creating bean with name 'dataSource' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/classes/context/applicationContext-jooq.xml]: 
            Error setting property values; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateException; 
            nested PropertyAccessExceptions (1) are:|PropertyAccessException 1: org.springframework.beans.MethodInvocationException: Property 'driverClassName' threw exception; 
            nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not load JDBC driver class [com.mysql.jdbc.GoogleDriver]

The database I am trying connecting to is a Second Generation Cloud SQL MySQL database.

Why am I getting this exception?

The App Engine had this <use-google-connector-j> property. I've not seen this property for the Flexible Environment - at least not on those pages what I've been reading so far. Is there anything I'd have to set in addtion in my app.yaml file?

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Not sure if I have to do this in Flexible Environment but I am currently trying to set the use-google-connector-j property to true in my yaml file:

use-google-connector-j: true

but it appears this is not working at the moment: https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=11444

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