Using JNDI on an extended BasicDataSource object

Question

I want to implement connection pooling on my jdbc connection using jndi but i also want to use an extended BasicDataSource object. I have restriction on using tomcat 5.5. The requirement is to encrypt-decrypt password provided in jndi context resource attributes.

I am trying to implement something similar to this post Link

Here is my servlet which works perfectly without extending BasicDataSource.

public class ReturnBlobOld extends HttpServlet {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource ds = null;
    // this is my extended DS which is not working
    //private custompages.NewBasicDataSource ds = null;

    public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException {
        super.init(config);
        getDataSource();
    }

    public void getDataSource() {
        Context ctxt = null;
        try {
            ctxt = new InitialContext();
            ds = (BasicDataSource) ctxt.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/mysql");
          //ds = (NewBasicDataSource) ctxt.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/mysql");          
        ctxt.close();
        } catch (NamingException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public void doGet(....){
           ........
          Connection connection = null;
          Statement statement = null;
        ResultSet res = null;
    try {
        connection = ds.getConnection();
        statement = connection.createStatement();
           }
     ................

Here is my extended BasicDataSource class

package custompages;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import javax.sql.DataSource;
import org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource;

public class NewBasicDataSource extends BasicDataSource {

    protected synchronized DataSource createDataSource() throws SQLException {
        String decryptedPassword = decryptPassword( super.getPassword() );
        super.setPassword( decryptedPassword );
        return super.createDataSource();
    }
    private String decryptPassword( String password ) {
        return "abcdef";//logic to decrypt current password
    }
}

Here is my context.xml file

<context>
<Resource name="jdbc/mysql"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
username="root"
password="abcdef"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://192.168.2.2:3306/world"
maxActive="1"
maxIdle="1"
maxWait="5000"
timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="5000"
minEvictableIdleTimeMillis="100"
removeAbandoned="true"
removeAbandonedTimeout="3"/>
</context>

Here is my WEB-INF resource declaration

<resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/mysql</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>

My servlet runs fine and i can initialize jdbc pool using above code. But when i try to use my extended class for encrypting -decrypting password then i get exception as below.

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource
custompages.ReturnBlobOld.getDataSource(ReturnBlobOld.java:39)
custompages.ReturnBlobOld.init(ReturnBlobOld.java:32)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:881)
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:674)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:541)
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Please suggest the proper way of extending this class for use with jndi

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 11 '13 at 19:31

Ok, Here is the alternative i am doing right now. I have removed JNDI resource and creating a new BasicDataSource Object directly in my servlet instead of getting it generated from the JNDI factory method call. In order to customize may be i can parameterize the properties using properties file ?

    public void getDataSource() {

        ds = new BasicDataSource();
        ds.setDriverClassName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
        ds.setUsername("root");
        ds.setPassword("abcde");
        ds.setUrl("jdbc:mysql://192.168.2.2:3306/world");
        ds.setMaxActive(8);
        ds.setMaxIdle(8);
        ds.setMaxWait(10000);
        ds.setTimeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis(300000);
        ds.setMinEvictableIdleTimeMillis(1800000);
        ds.setRemoveAbandonedTimeout(300);
        ds.setRemoveAbandoned(true);

Using JNDI on an extended BasicDataSource object

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