Escape underscore wildcard in catalog names for Thrift metadata RPCs (#1261)

## Summary
- Thrift metadata RPCs (GetSchemas, GetTables, GetColumns, etc.) treat
catalog names as patterns, so `_` is interpreted as a single-character
wildcard. This causes `my_catalog` to incorrectly match `mycatalog`,
`my1catalog`, etc.
- Adds a `TreatMetadataCatalogNameAsPattern` connection property
(default `false`). When disabled, unescaped `_` in catalog names are
escaped with `\` before passing to Thrift requests.
- Applied to 4 metadata methods: `listSchemas`, `listTables`,
`listColumns`, `listFunctions` (Thrift RPC path)

## Test plan
- [x] Parameterized unit tests for `WildcardUtil.escapeCatalogName()`
(null, no wildcards, single/multiple underscores, already-escaped,
percent left unchanged)
- [x] `DatabricksThriftServiceClientTest`: verify `listSchemas` escapes
catalog by default, does not escape when property is `true`, and
`listCrossReferences` escapes both parent and foreign catalogs
- [ ] Manual verification with a Databricks workspace using a catalog
containing `_` in its name

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Signed-off-by: Gopal Lal <gopal.lal@databricks.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: gopalldb

NEXT_CHANGELOG.md

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### Added
 - Added connection property `OAuthWebServerTimeout` to configure the OAuth browser authentication timeout for U2M (user-to-machine) flows, and also updated hardcoded 1-hour timeout to default 120 seconds timeout.
 - Added connection property `UseQueryForMetadata` to use SQL SHOW commands instead of Thrift RPCs for metadata operations (getCatalogs, getSchemas, getTables, getColumns, getFunctions). This fixes incorrect wildcard matching where `_` was treated as a single-character wildcard in Thrift metadata pattern filters.
+- Added connection property `TreatMetadataCatalogNameAsPattern` to control whether catalog names are treated as patterns in Thrift metadata RPCs. When disabled (default), unescaped `_` in catalog names is escaped to prevent single-character wildcard matching. This aligns with JDBC spec which treats catalogName as identifier and not pattern.
 
 ### Updated
 - Bumped `com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core` from 2.18.3 to 2.18.6.

src/main/java/com/databricks/jdbc/api/impl/DatabricksConnectionContext.java

@@ -1103,6 +1103,11 @@ public boolean useQueryForMetadata() {
     return getParameter(DatabricksJdbcUrlParams.USE_QUERY_FOR_METADATA).equals("1");
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public boolean treatMetadataCatalogNameAsPattern() {
+    return getParameter(DatabricksJdbcUrlParams.TREAT_METADATA_CATALOG_NAME_AS_PATTERN).equals("1");
+  }
+
   @Override
   public boolean getEnableMetricViewMetadata() {
     return getParameter(DatabricksJdbcUrlParams.ENABLE_METRIC_VIEW_METADATA).equals("1");

src/main/java/com/databricks/jdbc/api/internal/IDatabricksConnectionContext.java

@@ -407,6 +407,8 @@ public interface IDatabricksConnectionContext {
 
   boolean useQueryForMetadata();
 
+  boolean treatMetadataCatalogNameAsPattern();
+
   /** Returns whether batched INSERT optimization is enabled */
   boolean isBatchedInsertsEnabled();
 

src/main/java/com/databricks/jdbc/common/DatabricksJdbcUrlParams.java

@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ public enum DatabricksJdbcUrlParams {
       "UseQueryForMetadata",
       "Use SQL SHOW commands instead of Thrift RPCs for metadata operations. When enabled, EnableShowCommandForGetFunctions is redundant",
       "0"),
+  TREAT_METADATA_CATALOG_NAME_AS_PATTERN(
+      "TreatMetadataCatalogNameAsPattern",
+      "Treat catalog names as patterns in Thrift metadata RPCs. When disabled (default), wildcard characters in catalog names are escaped",
+      "0"),
   ENABLE_BATCHED_INSERTS("EnableBatchedInserts", "Enable batched INSERT optimization", "0"),
   ENABLE_SQL_VALIDATION_FOR_IS_VALID(
       "EnableSQLValidationForIsValid",

src/main/java/com/databricks/jdbc/common/util/WildcardUtil.java

@@ -35,6 +35,36 @@ public static boolean isWildcard(String s) {
     return s != null && s.equals(ASTERISK);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Escapes unescaped {@code _} wildcard characters in a catalog name by prepending {@code \}.
+   * Already-escaped sequences ({@code \_}) are left unchanged.
+   *
+   * @param catalogName the catalog name to escape
+   * @return the escaped catalog name, or {@code null} if the input is {@code null}
+   */
+  public static String escapeCatalogName(String catalogName) {
+    if (catalogName == null) {
+      return null;
+    }
+    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
+    for (int i = 0; i < catalogName.length(); i++) {
+      char ch = catalogName.charAt(i);
+      if (ch == '\\' && i + 1 < catalogName.length()) {
+        char next = catalogName.charAt(i + 1);
+        if (next == '_') {
+          builder.append(ch).append(next);
+          i++;
+          continue;
+        }
+      }
+      if (ch == '_') {
+        builder.append('\\');
+      }
+      builder.append(ch);
+    }
+    return builder.toString();
+  }
+
   public static String jdbcPatternToHive(String pattern) {
     if (pattern == null) {
       return null;

src/main/java/com/databricks/jdbc/dbclient/impl/thrift/DatabricksThriftServiceClient.java

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import com.databricks.jdbc.common.util.DatabricksThreadContextHolder;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.common.util.DriverUtil;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.common.util.ProtocolFeatureUtil;
+import com.databricks.jdbc.common.util.WildcardUtil;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.dbclient.IDatabricksClient;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.dbclient.IDatabricksMetadataClient;
 import com.databricks.jdbc.dbclient.impl.common.MetadataResultSetBuilder;
@@ -447,7 +448,7 @@ public DatabricksResultSet listSchemas(
     TGetSchemasReq request =
         new TGetSchemasReq()
             .setSessionHandle(Objects.requireNonNull(session.getSessionInfo()).sessionHandle())
-            .setCatalogName(catalog);
+            .setCatalogName(maybeEscapeCatalogName(catalog));
     if (schemaNamePattern != null) {
       request.setSchemaName(schemaNamePattern);
     }
@@ -481,7 +482,7 @@ public DatabricksResultSet listTables(
     TGetTablesReq request =
         new TGetTablesReq()
             .setSessionHandle(Objects.requireNonNull(session.getSessionInfo()).sessionHandle())
-            .setCatalogName(catalog)
+            .setCatalogName(maybeEscapeCatalogName(catalog))
             .setSchemaName(schemaNamePattern)
             .setTableName(tableNamePattern);
     if (tableTypes != null) {
@@ -526,7 +527,7 @@ public DatabricksResultSet listColumns(
     TGetColumnsReq request =
         new TGetColumnsReq()
             .setSessionHandle(Objects.requireNonNull(session.getSessionInfo()).sessionHandle())
-            .setCatalogName(catalog)
+            .setCatalogName(maybeEscapeCatalogName(catalog))
             .setSchemaName(schemaNamePattern)
             .setTableName(tableNamePattern)
             .setColumnName(columnNamePattern);
@@ -590,7 +591,7 @@ public DatabricksResultSet listFunctions(
     TGetFunctionsReq request =
         new TGetFunctionsReq()
             .setSessionHandle(Objects.requireNonNull(session.getSessionInfo()).sessionHandle())
-            .setCatalogName(catalog)
+            .setCatalogName(maybeEscapeCatalogName(catalog))
             .setSchemaName(schemaNamePattern)
             .setFunctionName(functionNamePattern);
     if (ProtocolFeatureUtil.supportsAsyncMetadataExecution(serverProtocolVersion)) {
@@ -740,6 +741,13 @@ public DatabricksConfig getDatabricksConfig() {
     return thriftAccessor.getDatabricksConfig();
   }
 
+  private String maybeEscapeCatalogName(String catalogName) {
+    if (!connectionContext.treatMetadataCatalogNameAsPattern()) {
+      return WildcardUtil.escapeCatalogName(catalogName);
+    }
+    return catalogName;
+  }
+
   private TNamespace getNamespace(String catalog, String schema) {
     final TNamespace namespace = new TNamespace();
     if (catalog != null) {

src/test/java/com/databricks/jdbc/common/util/WildcardUtilTest.java

@@ -62,4 +62,21 @@ void testIsMatchAnything() {
     assertFalse(wildcardUtil.isMatchAnything("Test"));
     assertFalse(wildcardUtil.isMatchAnything(null));
   }
+
+  private static Stream<Arguments> escapeCatalogNamePatterns() {
+    return Stream.of(
+        Arguments.of(null, null, "Null input returns null"),
+        Arguments.of("simple", "simple", "No wildcards unchanged"),
+        Arguments.of("my_catalog", "my\\_catalog", "Underscore is escaped"),
+        Arguments.of("a_b_c", "a\\_b\\_c", "Multiple underscores escaped"),
+        Arguments.of("my\\_catalog", "my\\_catalog", "Already escaped underscore unchanged"),
+        Arguments.of("my%catalog", "my%catalog", "Percent is not escaped"),
+        Arguments.of("a_b%c", "a\\_b%c", "Underscore escaped but percent left unchanged"));
+  }
+
+  @ParameterizedTest
+  @MethodSource("escapeCatalogNamePatterns")
+  void testEscapeCatalogName(String input, String expected, String errorMessage) {
+    assertEquals(expected, WildcardUtil.escapeCatalogName(input), errorMessage);
+  }
 }

src/test/java/com/databricks/jdbc/dbclient/impl/thrift/DatabricksThriftServiceClientTest.java

@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ void setUp() {
     // Enable multiple catalog support by default for all tests
     // Individual tests can override this if needed
     lenient().when(connectionContext.getEnableMultipleCatalogSupport()).thenReturn(true);
+    lenient().when(connectionContext.treatMetadataCatalogNameAsPattern()).thenReturn(false);
   }
 
   @Test
@@ -1127,4 +1128,52 @@ public void testNullValue() {
     assertNull(result.getValue());
     assertEquals(3, result.getOrdinal());
   }
+
+  @Test
+  void testListSchemasEscapesCatalogByDefault() throws SQLException {
+    when(connectionContext.treatMetadataCatalogNameAsPattern()).thenReturn(false);
+    DatabricksThriftServiceClient client =
+        new DatabricksThriftServiceClient(thriftAccessor, connectionContext);
+    when(session.getSessionInfo()).thenReturn(SESSION_INFO);
+    client.setServerProtocolVersion(TProtocolVersion.SPARK_CLI_SERVICE_PROTOCOL_V1);
+
+    String catalogWithUnderscore = "my_catalog";
+    TFetchResultsResp response =
+        new TFetchResultsResp()
+            .setStatus(new TStatus().setStatusCode(TStatusCode.SUCCESS_STATUS))
+            .setResults(resultData)
+            .setResultSetMetadata(resultMetadataData);
+    when(resultData.getColumns()).thenReturn(Collections.emptyList());
+    when(thriftAccessor.getThriftResponse(any(TGetSchemasReq.class))).thenReturn(response);
+
+    client.listSchemas(session, catalogWithUnderscore, null);
+
+    ArgumentCaptor<TGetSchemasReq> captor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(TGetSchemasReq.class);
+    verify(thriftAccessor).getThriftResponse(captor.capture());
+    assertEquals("my\\_catalog", captor.getValue().getCatalogName());
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  void testListSchemasDoesNotEscapeCatalogWhenPatternEnabled() throws SQLException {
+    when(connectionContext.treatMetadataCatalogNameAsPattern()).thenReturn(true);
+    DatabricksThriftServiceClient client =
+        new DatabricksThriftServiceClient(thriftAccessor, connectionContext);
+    when(session.getSessionInfo()).thenReturn(SESSION_INFO);
+    client.setServerProtocolVersion(TProtocolVersion.SPARK_CLI_SERVICE_PROTOCOL_V1);
+
+    String catalogWithUnderscore = "my_catalog";
+    TFetchResultsResp response =
+        new TFetchResultsResp()
+            .setStatus(new TStatus().setStatusCode(TStatusCode.SUCCESS_STATUS))
+            .setResults(resultData)
+            .setResultSetMetadata(resultMetadataData);
+    when(resultData.getColumns()).thenReturn(Collections.emptyList());
+    when(thriftAccessor.getThriftResponse(any(TGetSchemasReq.class))).thenReturn(response);
+
+    client.listSchemas(session, catalogWithUnderscore, null);
+
+    ArgumentCaptor<TGetSchemasReq> captor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(TGetSchemasReq.class);
+    verify(thriftAccessor).getThriftResponse(captor.capture());
+    assertEquals("my_catalog", captor.getValue().getCatalogName());
+  }
 }