[GitHub] [airflow] dstandish edited a comment on pull request #15100: Add support for arbitrary json in conn uri format

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dstandish edited a comment on pull request #15100:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/15100#issuecomment-810654779


   > I like this solution with the use of a special key. I don't understand the role of base64 here. Is it necessary? It seems to me that the pure value will be easier to use, e.g. you will be able to check the connection configuration by looking at the environment variables.
   
   Yep you are right.  base64 isn't necessary.  i have removed it.  but still the uri remains equally indecipherable to the human eye.
   
   > As for supporting other types, I'm not sure we want to support it. We expect the extra field to be a Web UI dictionary. The use of primitive types also causes a problem with extending a given connection ie. it is not future-proff.
   
   I agree with this.  I like the idea of supporting nested dictionaries, but lists and primatives are not useful and probably a bad idea.  You might be interested in the discussion on #15013; the inability to serialize a primitive extra is cited as a primary motivator for the PR.  In the present PR I included support for primative / list because they make a valid point that it's not technically forbidden by `Connection`, and adding support in get_uri at least allows us to properly serialize allowed values.  But yeah I'd be happy to forbid primative and list.
   
   What do you think we should do?
   
   


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