Do -Dcayenne.jdbc.username really work? I’m trying to use that (so that the
password is not stored in Git), and the runtime is still using the login
information from the XML file.
Cayenne 4.1.M1.
ServerRuntime mysqlRuntime =
ServerRuntime.builder().addConfig("cayenne-mysql.xml").build();
> Le 18 déc. 2017 à 11:49, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> a écrit :
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> We've done quite a bit of work in Cayenne to avoid complex things like
> PasswordEncoding or custom DataSourceFactories. If all that is needed is to
> change / define login credentials, the simplest way is via properties [1].
> [2] shows an example with a single DataNode. If you have more than one, you
> will need to add the project name and the DataNode name to the base property
> name. E.g.:
>
> export MY_USER=user
> export MY_PASSWORD=secret
>
> java -Dcayenne.jdbc.username.project.mynode=$MY_USER \
> -Dcayenne.jdbc.password.project.mynode=$MY_PASSWORD \
> -jar myapp.jar
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Andrus
>
> [1]
> http://cayenne.apache.org/docs/4.0/cayenne-guide/configuration-properties.html
> [2]
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45781378/best-practice-to-manage-apache-cayenne-project-xml-file
>
>
>
>> On Dec 17, 2017, at 4:23 AM, Mark Hull <mark.mkg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I apologize if this question has been asked and answered before but: What is
>> the best-practices solution to redact the database user name and password
>> from an XML file created and used by Cayenne Modeler? The ServerRuntime
>> build statement is simply:
>>
>> cayenneRuntime = ServerRuntime.builder()
>> .addConfig("com/hulles/a1icia/cayenne/cayenne-a1icia.xml")
>> .build();
>>
>> It works just fine as long as the db user name and password are in the XML
>> file, but I don't believe in leaving clear-text artifacts like that laying
>> around in the code, so I want to add the user and password data at runtime
>> from a Java method (not from an external file or an 'executable', whatever
>> that means in the content of PasswordEncoding). Adding .user("xyz") and
>> .password("zyx") to the build statement don't work, presumably because the
>> DataNode is not the default and those statements just set their respective
>> fields for the default DataNode.
>>
>> If I have to, I can create either a Module to change those properties
>> somehow at runtime (though the documentation for doing so is, to be kind,
>> sparse), somehow implement the PasswordEncoding (even less documentation,
>> because I don't know where it's used), or just edit the XML at runtime
>> (horrible choice but looking like the best of a bad lot at this point).
>>
>> All this seems like a lot of effort when I imagine this need must crop up
>> fairly often among Cayenne users (it should, for security reasons IMO). Is
>> there a simple standard way to do what I want? Or at least a standard way? I
>> don't want to invent a new wheel here. I feel like I'm missing something
>> obvious that everyone else knows about and that I just missed. Oh, by the
>> way, whatever the solution is should still allow Cayenne Modeler to function
>> normally.
>>
>> I promise I searched for the answer everywhere I could think of.
>> StackOverflow had a couple answers that used deprecated methods and didn't
>> work when I tried them.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any help. I hope there's a really simple answer so I
>> feel stupid but don't have to spend any more time on this than I have
>> already. :)
>>
>> - Mark Hull
>>
>> /People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. - A. A. Milne/
>
