spring jpa application.properties useSSL

Question

I am trying to turn off ssl, to my local mysql database. But I cannot find the actual property in a spring application.properties file that would do this.

my current

Answer 1

I don't like to pollute java options or system properties, which are useless in application containers in any case...

You can set SSL certificate for MySQL connection programmically with:

jdbc:mysql://example.com:3306/MYDB?verifyServerCertificate=true&useSSL=true&requireSSL=true&clientCertificateKeyStoreUrl=file:cert/keystore.jks&clientCertificateKeyStorePassword=123456&trustCertificateKeyStoreUrl=file:cert/truststore.jks&trustCertificateKeyStorePassword=123456

It is documented:

• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/5.1/en/connector-j-reference-configuration-properties.html
• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-j/5.1/en/connector-j-reference-using-ssl.html