SNOW-974129: Add new connection property enablePatternSearch to flag if pattern searches for some DatabaseMetaData methods are allowed (#1639)

Author: sfc-gh-ext-simba-jf

src/main/java/net/snowflake/client/core/SFBaseSession.java

@@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ public abstract class SFBaseSession {
   // Connection string setting
   private boolean enablePutGet = true;
 
+  // Enables the use of pattern searches for certain DatabaseMetaData methods
+  // which do not by definition allow the use of patterns, but
+  // we need to allow for it to maintain backwards compatibility.
+  private boolean enablePatternSearch = true;
+
   private Map<String, Object> commonParameters;
 
   protected SFBaseSession(SFConnectionHandler sfConnectionHandler) {
@@ -713,6 +718,14 @@ public boolean setEnablePutGet(boolean enablePutGet) {
     return this.enablePutGet = enablePutGet;
   }
 
+  public boolean getEnablePatternSearch() {
+    return enablePatternSearch;
+  }
+
+  public void setEnablePatternSearch(boolean enablePatternSearch) {
+    this.enablePatternSearch = enablePatternSearch;
+  }
+
   public int getClientResultChunkSize() {
     return clientResultChunkSize;
   }

src/main/java/net/snowflake/client/core/SFSession.java

@@ -464,6 +464,12 @@ public void addSFSessionProperty(String propertyName, Object propertyValue) thro
           }
           break;
 
+        case ENABLE_PATTERN_SEARCH:
+          if (propertyValue != null) {
+            setEnablePatternSearch(getBooleanValue(propertyValue));
+          }
+          break;
+
         default:
           break;
       }

src/main/java/net/snowflake/client/core/SFSessionProperty.java

@@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ public enum SFSessionProperty {
 
   PUT_GET_MAX_RETRIES("putGetMaxRetries", false, Integer.class),
 
-  RETRY_TIMEOUT("retryTimeout", false, Integer.class);
+  RETRY_TIMEOUT("retryTimeout", false, Integer.class),
+
+  ENABLE_PATTERN_SEARCH("enablePatternSearch", false, Boolean.class);
 
   // property key in string
   private String propertyKey;