The MySQL binlog events contain the binary representation of string-like values as encoded per the column's character set. Properly decoding these into Java strings requires capturing the column, table, and database character set when parsing the DDL statements.
Unfortunately, MySQL DDL allows columns (at the time the columns are created or modified) to inherit the default character set for the table, or if that is not defined the default character set for the database, or if that is not defined the character set for the server. So, in addition to modifying the MySQL DDL parser to support capturing the character set name for each column, it also had to be changed to know what these default character set names are.
The default character sets are all available via MySQL server/session/local variables. Although strictly speaking the character set variables cannot be set globally, MySQL DDL does allow session and local variables to be set with `SET` statements. Therefore, this commit enhances the MySQL DDL parser to parse `SET` statements and to track the various global, session, and local variables as seen by the DDL parser. Upon connector startup, a subset of server variables (related to character sets and collations) are read from the database via JDBC and used to initialize the DDL parser via `SET` methods.
In addition to initializing the DDL parser with the system variables related to character sets and collation, it is important to also capture the server and database default character sets in the database history so that the correct character sets are used for columns even when the default character sets have changed on the database and/or the server. Therefore, upon startup or snapshot the MySQL connector records in the database history a `SET` statement for the `character_set_server` and `collation_server` system variables so that, upon a later restart, the history's DDL statements can be re-parsed with the correct default server and database character sets. Also, when the MySQL connector reloads the database history (upon startup), the recorded default server character set is compared with the MySQL instance's current server character set, and if they are different the current character set is recorded with a new `SET` statement.
These extra steps ensure that the connector use the correct character set for each column, even when the connector restarts and reloads the database history captured by a previous version of the connector. IOW, the MySQL connector can be safely upgraded, and the new version will correctly start using the columns' character sets to decode the string-like values.
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