Vladimir, Taras, Will "@" work for us as the delimiter? I would agree with Andrey to reuse this approach for the thin client.
As for the breaking changes, if update the delimiter for the next driver version and make sure that version understands 2 delimiters for some time (& and the new one), then this would be ideal and not disrupting. -- Denis On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 2:39 AM, Andrey Gura <ag...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > We've been solve this problem during JDBC2 driver implementation. And > I don't know any complains about connection string format. Why we can > just use the same approach? [1] > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-1250? > focusedCommentId=14706511&page=com.atlassian.jira. > plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14706511 > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Ilya Kasnacheev > <ilya.kasnach...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I think semicolon is the way to go, since round brackets are often > > interpreted by shells and will need escaping on their own. Let's get rid > of > > & and ?. > > > > jdbc:ignite:thin://host:port/schema:param1=val1:param2=val2 > > > > -- > > Ilya Kasnacheev > > > > 2018-04-03 11:30 GMT+03:00 Vladimir Ozerov <voze...@gridgain.com>: > > > >> Igniters, > >> > >> Thanks to Alex Kuznetsov, we revealed serious usability issue in our > thin > >> JDBC driver - we user ampersand character to delimit properties: > >> > >> jdbc:ignite:thin://host:port/schema?param1=val1*&*param2=val2 > >> > >> This leads to multiple problems: > >> 1) This format is unusable from many console environments and require > >> special escaping (PowerShell, bash) > >> 2) Also this causing issues when writing connection string is passed to > >> some 3rd-party applications as sometimes they cannot escape it as well. > >> > >> I performed investigation on how other vendors do that. Bottom line - > >> nobody use ampersand. Instead semicolon or parentheses are used: > >> > >> jdbc:ignite:thin://host:port/schema?param1=val1¶m2=val2 > >> jdbc:ignite:thin://host:port/schema?(param1=val1)(param2=val2) > >> > >> I propose to do a breaking change in AI 2.5 and change the format to > >> *parentheses*. This would be a disruptive experience for existing users, > >> but in the long term benefits will outweight. Also remember that we do > not > >> offered officially any backward compatibility for our JDBC driver. > >> > >> Alternatively we may allow users to use previous format with help of > system > >> property or environment variable. > >> > >> Thoughts? > >> > >> Vladimir. > >> >