Connection String Options
The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection string for this provider. Click the links for further details.
For more information on establishing a connection, see Establishing a Connection.
Property | Description |
CustomURL | The custom URL to the S3 based service. Specify this URL if the S3 based service has a different URL from the 'amazonaws.com'. Make sure to specify the full URL. For example: CustomURL=http://127.0.0.1:9000. Please note that in a custom S3 based service, views other than Buckets and Objects might not be supported to work with or might need to be configured on the custom service itself. |
SimpleUploadLimit | This setting specifies the threshold, in bytes, above which the provider will choose to perform a multipart upload rather than uploading everything in one request. |
UseVirtualHosting | If true (default), buckets will be referenced in the request using the hosted-style request: http://bucket-name.host/yourobject. If set to false, the bean will use the path-style request: http://host/bucket-name/yourobject. |
Property | Description |
AuthScheme | The scheme used for authentication. Accepted entries are: Auto, , AwsRootKeys , AwsIAMRoles , AwsEC2Roles , AwsMFA , ADFS, Okta, PingFederate , AwsCredentialsFile , AwsCognitoBasic , AwsCognitoSrp. |
AWSAccessKey | Your AWS account access key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page. |
AWSSecretKey | Your AWS account secret key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page. |
AWSRoleARN | The Amazon Resource Name of the role to use when authenticating. |
AWSPrincipalARN | The ARN of the SAML Identity provider in your AWS account. |
AWSRegion | The hosting region for your Amazon Web Services. |
AWSSessionToken | Your AWS session token. |
AWSExternalId | A unique identifier that might be required when you assume a role in another account. |
MFASerialNumber | The serial number of the MFA device if one is being used. |
MFAToken | The temporary token available from your MFA device. |
CredentialsLocation | The location of the settings file where MFA credentials are saved. |
TemporaryTokenDuration | The amount of time (in seconds) a temporary token will last. |
AWSCognitoRegion | The hosting region for AWS Cognito. |
AWSUserPoolId | The User Pool Id. |
AWSUserPoolClientAppId | The User Pool Client App Id. |
AWSUserPoolClientAppSecret | Optional. The User Pool Client App Secret. |
AWSIdentityPoolId | The Identity Pool Id. |
ServerSideEncryption | When activated, file uploads into Amazon S3 buckets will be server-side encrypted. |
Property | Description |
User | The IDP user used to authenticate the IDP via SSO. |
Password | The password used to authenticate the IDP user via SSO. |
SSOLoginURL | The identity provider's login URL. |
SSOProperties | Additional properties required to connect to the identity provider in a semicolon-separated list. |
SSOExchangeUrl | The url used for consuming the SAML response and exchanging it with Amazon S3 specific credentials. |
Property | Description |
SSLServerCert | The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL. |
Property | Description |
FirewallType | The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall. |
FirewallServer | The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall. |
FirewallPort | The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall. |
FirewallUser | The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall. |
FirewallPassword | A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall. |
Property | Description |
ProxyAutoDetect | This indicates whether to use the system proxy settings or not. This takes precedence over other proxy settings, so you'll need to set ProxyAutoDetect to FALSE in order use custom proxy settings. |
ProxyServer | The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through. |
ProxyPort | The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is running on. |
ProxyAuthScheme | The authentication type to use to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
ProxyUser | A user name to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
ProxyPassword | A password to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy. |
ProxySSLType | The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy. |
ProxyExceptions | A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer . |
Property | Description |
Logfile | A filepath which designates the name and location of the log file. |
Verbosity | The verbosity level that determines the amount of detail included in the log file. |
LogModules | Core modules to be included in the log file. |
MaxLogFileSize | A string specifying the maximum size in bytes for a log file (for example, 10 MB). |
MaxLogFileCount | A string specifying the maximum file count of log files. |
Property | Description |
Location | A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures. |
BrowsableSchemas | This property restricts the schemas reported to a subset of the available schemas. For example, BrowsableSchemas=SchemaA,SchemaB,SchemaC. |
Tables | This property restricts the tables reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Tables=TableA,TableB,TableC. |
Views | Restricts the views reported to a subset of the available tables. For example, Views=ViewA,ViewB,ViewC. |
Property | Description |
AutoCache | Automatically caches the results of SELECT queries into a cache database specified by either CacheLocation or both of CacheConnection and CacheProvider . |
CacheDriver | The database driver used to cache data. |
CacheConnection | The connection string for the cache database. This property is always used in conjunction with CacheProvider . Setting both properties will override the value set for CacheLocation for caching data. |
CacheLocation | Specifies the path to the cache when caching to a file. |
CacheTolerance | The tolerance for stale data in the cache specified in seconds when using AutoCache . |
Offline | Use offline mode to get the data from the cache instead of the live source. |
CacheMetadata | This property determines whether or not to cache the table metadata to a file store. |
Property | Description |
BatchSize | The maximum size of each batch operation to submit. |
ConnectionLifeTime | The maximum lifetime of a connection in seconds. Once the time has elapsed, the connection object is disposed. |
ConnectOnOpen | This property specifies whether to connect to the Amazon S3 when the connection is opened. |
CreateFoldersOnDownload | Automatically create the destination folder during execution of DownloadObjects Stored Procedure. |
EncodeFilename | Determines if the local file path in DownloadObjects Stored Procedure should be encoded. |
MaxRows | Limits the number of rows returned rows when no aggregation or group by is used in the query. This helps avoid performance issues at design time. |
MaxThreads | Specifies the number of concurrent requests. |
Other | These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases. |
PoolIdleTimeout | The allowed idle time for a connection before it is closed. |
PoolMaxSize | The maximum connections in the pool. |
PoolMinSize | The minimum number of connections in the pool. |
PoolWaitTime | The max seconds to wait for an available connection. |
PseudoColumns | This property indicates whether or not to include pseudo columns as columns to the table. |
RTK | The runtime key used for licensing. |
Timeout | The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation. |
UseConnectionPooling | This property enables connection pooling. |
UserDefinedViews | A filepath pointing to the JSON configuration file containing your custom views. |