Cloud SQL MySQL Socket Factory

The Cloud SQL MySQL Socket Factory is a socket factory for the MySQL JDBC driver that allows a user with the appropriate permissions to connect to a Cloud SQL database without having to deal with IP whitelisting or SSL certificates manually.

Obtaining

The library is available in Maven Central.

Add a dependency using your favorite build tool. Maven and Gradle examples are shown below.

Maven

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.cloud.sql</groupId>
    <artifactId>mysql-socket-factory</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.2</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

compile 'com.google.cloud.sql:mysql-socket-factory:1.0.2'

Note: If you wish to use the 6.x (development) version of the MySQL driver, use the artifact id 'mysql-socket-factory-connector-j-6'.

Using

When specifying the JDBC connection URL, add two additional parameters:

Property	Value
cloudSqlInstance	The instance connection name (which is found on the instance details page in Google Developers Console)
socketFactory	com.google.cloud.sql.mysql.SocketFactory

For example, if the instance connection name is foo:bar:baz, the JDBC URL would be jdbc:mysql://google/mydb?cloudSqlInstance=foo:bar:baz&socketFactory=com.google.cloud.sql.mysql.SocketFactory

A tool is available in examples/getting-started that can help you generate the right JDBC URL.

Credentials

The library needs to obtain credentials in order to retrieve SSL certificates that are used to connect to the instance. Application Default Credentials are used for this purpose.

On Google Compute Engine and Google App Engine, the VM/application service account is used.

For local development, application default credentials written by gcloud are used, if present. You must run gcloud auth application-default login once for the credentials to become available to the library.