Platform detection in JDBC driver v3.27.1

[alisabzevari]

Hi,

As it seems from the changelog and commit comparison, the new version of driver added platform detection which seems to be only for the PLATFORM metric in CLIENT_ENVIRONMENT. The problem is that we see error logs for the unauthorized errors. It seems to me that if this is just for checking, the errors should not be logged as errors.

Here is an example error we get:

Returning null response. Cause: java.net.UnknownHostException: metadata.google.internal, request: GET http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/service-accounts/default/email HTTP/1.1

Error logged in net.snowflake.client.jdbc.RestRequest. Would this be something to improve in the next update? Also, is it safe to disable the platform detector and how to do that?

[patkujawa-wf]

We just updated and this triggered our error logging, +1 on adjusting logging and/or disabling platform detection by default. Was added in #2351

[sfc-gh-dszmolka]

hi folks, disablePlatformDetection=true can be added to connection string to disable automatic platform detection.

It was added on purpose as an 'enabled by default' feature to align with other projects. We see too that it could be done differently and there's already internal discussions on this. I leave the rest of the details to be expanded by the dev team here if they wish to.