Bug 50025 - getConnection method in class DataSourceProxy is ignoring credentials
Summary: getConnection method in class DataSourceProxy is ignoring credentials
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat Modules
Classification: Unclassified
Component: jdbc-pool (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 critical (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
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Reported: 2010-09-29 09:48 UTC by Tim
Modified: 2019-07-10 10:15 UTC (History)
1 user (show)



Attachments
Beginning of a patch to handle DataSource.getConnection(username,password) for a pool (9.50 KB, patch)
2010-12-01 15:11 UTC, Filip Hanik
Details | Diff
Patch to allow the call DataSource.getConnection(username,password) (13.51 KB, patch)
2011-01-03 15:12 UTC, Filip Hanik
Details | Diff

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Description Tim 2010-09-29 09:48:26 UTC
See http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?t=95980 for a description of the problem.
Comment 1 bsnyder 2010-10-22 09:57:37 UTC
Here's the description that I copy/pasted from the Spring forums: 

In Websphere I was able to wire an interceptor around all of my controllers and set thread-bound DB credentials based on the path of the current request. In my tcServer Developer edition (2.3.3 M1) this no longer works. My datasource is wired as a

org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.UserCredential sDataSourceAdapter

I've verified that I'm calling the getConnection(String username, String password) method with the correct credentials. However, the connection that is returned is of type

ProxyConnection[PooledConnection[oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CConnection@6ab4a7]]

with the same default credentials as those defined in server.xml. Is there another way to set the database credentials at runtime?
Comment 2 bsnyder 2010-10-22 10:25:43 UTC
Do you have a code example to show how you receive this error? Or perhaps even a JUnit test?
Comment 3 Tim 2010-10-22 10:29:26 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Do you have a code example to show how you receive this error? Or perhaps even
> a JUnit test?

Take a look at the source code for getConnection.  It was included in a reply to my original post in the forums (reproduced below).

---
This is an issue with the new jdbc-pool implementation, it internally always uses the default configured username/password. I suggest raising a bug on the tomcat(jdbc-pool) issue tracker.

The actual code.
Code:
public class DataSourceProxy implements PoolConfiguration {

...
   /**
     * {@link javax.sql.DataSource#getConnection()}
     */
    public Connection getConnection(String username, String password) throws SQLException {
        return getConnection();
    }
....

}
Comment 4 Filip Hanik 2010-12-01 15:10:14 UTC
hi Tim, this isn't really a bug, but how the pool operates.
This is a pool, meaning it caches connections with a predefined set of credentials as defined in the configuration.

If we allowed the username/password to be passed, the cache would have to be way more sophisticated, since it could mean that we would have to close a connection, and open a new one with the provided credentials. 

So in the worst case scenario, you'd really not have a pool.

I started working on a simple patch, that would simply reuse the existing cache, and see if the connection had the requested credentials already.
This way, the speed is not compromised on the cache, but could lead to unnecessary disconnect/reconnects.

I can show you the patch, attached. (just needs some additional calls to complete it)

But my gut feel, is that this isn't really a bug. If implemented as a feature, it would need some serious though to not compromise the performance of the existing implementation.
Comment 5 Filip Hanik 2010-12-01 15:11:13 UTC
Created attachment 26363 [details]
Beginning of a patch to handle DataSource.getConnection(username,password) for a pool
Comment 6 Filip Hanik 2011-01-03 15:12:51 UTC
Created attachment 26455 [details]
Patch to allow the call DataSource.getConnection(username,password)

Here is the patch for allowing DataSource.getConnection(username, password) to be used. In the case of a connection that is connected, is used with a different username, password it is reconnected.
I'm hesitant to apply this patch at this time as it does slow down the pool doing the passwords checks every time a connection is requested.

I will experiment with a flag to enable/disable the check
Comment 7 Filip Hanik 2011-01-03 18:36:22 UTC
Fixed in version 1.0.9.1
http://people.apache.org/~fhanik/jdbc-pool/