feat: Added Option for Oracle Connector to use Alias w/ Params

connectorx/src/sources/oracle/mod.rs

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 mod errors;
 mod typesystem;
 
+use std::collections::HashMap;
+
 pub use self::errors::OracleSourceError;
 pub use self::typesystem::OracleTypeSystem;
 use crate::constants::{DB_BUFFER_SIZE, ORACLE_ARRAY_SIZE};
@@ -55,12 +57,19 @@ pub fn connect_oracle(conn: &Url) -> Connector {
     let user = decode(conn.username())?.into_owned();
     let password = decode(conn.password().unwrap_or(""))?.into_owned();
     let host = decode(conn.host_str().unwrap_or("localhost"))?.into_owned();
-    let port = conn.port().unwrap_or(1521);
-    let path = decode(conn.path())?.into_owned();
 
-    let conn_str = format!("//{}:{}{}", host, port, path);
+    let params: HashMap<String, String> = conn.query_pairs().into_owned().collect();
+
+    let conn_str = if params.get("alias").map_or(false, |v| v == "true") {
+        host.clone()
+    } else {
+        let port = conn.port().unwrap_or(1521);
+        let path = decode(conn.path())?.into_owned();
+        format!("//{}:{}{}", host, port, path)
+    };
+
     let mut connector = oracle::Connector::new(user.as_str(), password.as_str(), conn_str.as_str());
-    if user.is_empty() && password.is_empty() && host == "localhost" {
+    if user.is_empty() && password.is_empty() {
         debug!("No username or password provided, assuming system auth.");
         connector.external_auth(true);
     }

docs/databases/oracle.md

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Oracle
 
+### System Authentication
+```{hint}
+If you want to use system authentication to access Oracle, username & password should not present in the connection string.
+```
 
 ### Oracle Connection
 ```py
@@ -9,6 +13,14 @@ query = 'SELECT * FROM table'                                   # query string
 cx.read_sql(conn, query)                                        # read data from Oracle
 ```
 
+### Oracle TNS Alias (DNS) Connection
+```py
+import connectorx as cx
+conn = 'oracle://username:password@alias_name?alias=true'        # connection token
+query = 'SELECT * FROM table'                                   # query string
+cx.read_sql(conn, query)                                        # read data from Oracle
+```
+
 ### Oracle-Pandas Type Mapping
 | Oracle Type               |      Pandas Type            |  Comment                           |
 |:-------------------------:|:---------------------------:|:----------------------------------:|