Fwd: BUG #17216: No Password Provided Error - uncaught exception

Driver version: 42.2.24
PostgreSQL version: Debian 14.0-1.pgdg110+1
Operating system: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

When connecting to the pg database 14.0 and no password (empty) is
specified the following error message is returned
"Something unusual has occurred to cause the driver to fail. Please
report this exception. Empty value for ‘password’ "

In previous versions of the database (13.4) the password specific error
message is returned "The server requested password-based authentication,
but no password was provided"

Previous versions of the driver (42.2.*) exhibit the same behaviour when
connecting to version 14. The password specific exception is expected
rather than the generic message.

jdbc:postgresql://{host}[:{port}]/[{database}]?user=myuser&password=

Stack Trace:
Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Something unusual has
occurred to cause the driver to fail. Please report this exception.
at org.postgresql.Driver$ConnectThread.getResult(Driver.java:420)
at org.postgresql.Driver.connect(Driver.java:271)
at
org.apache.commons.dbcp2.DriverConnectionFactory.createConnection(DriverConnectionFactory.java:55)
at
org.apache.commons.dbcp2.PoolableConnectionFactory.makeObject(PoolableConnectionFactory.java:355)
at
org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource.validateConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:115)
at
org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource.createPoolableConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:665)
... 86 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.AssertionError: Misuse of castNonNull: called with a
null argument
at org.postgresql.util.internal.Nullness.castNonNull(Nullness.java:22)
at
org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.doAuthentication(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:759)
at
org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.tryConnect(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:161)
at
org.postgresql.core.v3.ConnectionFactoryImpl.openConnectionImpl(ConnectionFactoryImpl.java:213)
at
org.postgresql.core.ConnectionFactory.openConnection(ConnectionFactory.java:51)
at org.postgresql.jdbc.PgConnection.<init>(PgConnection.java:225)
at org.postgresql.Driver.makeConnection(Driver.java:465)
at org.postgresql.Driver.access$100(Driver.java:62)
at org.postgresql.Driver$ConnectThread.run(Driver.java:375)
... 1 common frames omitted

Kind regards,
Cliff

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Date: Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: BUG #17216: No Password Provided Error - uncaught exception
To: Cliff Sizer <cliffsizer(at)gmail(dot)com>

Cliff Sizer <cliffsizer(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Yes, 42.2.24 is the latest available driver.

Hmm, I'm sure they have added SCRAM support, so that theory seems
out. Perhaps you should file a ticket with the JDBC crew.
(pgsql-bugs only deals with bugs in the core server.)

regards, tom lane