Private key input as base64 string

[kronnk]

I was thinking of making a change to the snowflake connector and transforming it so that the private key is required to be in base 64. I am currently working with private keys and they look awful when an env is in full key format.
A one liner base64 key looks much cleaner.

So instead of

TARGET_SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY = "
--------BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-------
asdasdasdfsdhdfkjahsflkasaskljdhfl
ajsdfbjhsahdbfgajlsdhhlkdfhklasdhf
....
kadhjfklhajsdfhjlkjdasjkhfkhajkldhf
akldjhföjkjadöklfjdaölsjölöldakjföljd
----------END PRIVATE KEY------

it would look like this

TARGET_SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY = "asaldjasljd alöskdaöksdöalk lakjsdlköasdjl alksjdjlkajsdkj"

What are your thoughts on this ?

[edgarrmondragon]

Hey @kronnk!

I like your proposal, those newline characters in the private keys can complicate things unnecessarily.

I'd like to preserver backwards compatibility as to not break any users already using the raw private key string. If we could detect one or the other format and decode it accordingly, I will happily review a pull request 🙂.

[kronnk]

I will check for the format and raise a warning, so that it remains compatible for the users currently using it.