DriverManagerConnectionFactory: blank username/password handling

• Key: DBCP-108
• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dirk Verbeeck
• Affects Version/s: 1.2

Environment

Operating System: other
Platform: Other

Description

Mail from Maxwell Grender-Jones (on commons-dev 24 june 2004)
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If you supply a username but not a password, or a password but not a
username, dbcp ignores these values, and simply uses the URL to connect
to your database (even when defaults exist for the null values). This
means if I create a DriverManagerConnectionFactory with url, user and
pass of mydburl, myusername, null, it will try connect to mydburl using
default username and default password rather than myusername and default
password.

The solution:
Allow the default username and password values to be used when one is
present but the other is not, as provided by the patch. Now I realise
default usernames/passwords are not ideal, but at the same time there's
no need to prevent this functionality from working (imho).