SNOW-1869750 add check for empty private key before trying to generate JWT from it

[sfc-gh-dszmolka]

Description

This is trying to address an Issue coming from a Snowflake Terraform Provider use-case (Snowflake-Labs/terraform-provider-snowflake#3322) but perhaps beneficial without the TF Provider as well.

The current behaviour is that the driver panics when no private key is specified to be used with keypair auth.

Users of the Provider can choose for keypair auth, and can specify the details needed to set up the connection (like user, account, etc, also the private key), multiple ways:

• using a config file
• using the provider block in their main.tf
• (issue comes from this scenario) using environmental variables . Specifically for the private key, this is SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY

It is entirely legal to omit the account configuration from config file, it's no problem if you omit it from the provider block as well, but then you need to make sure you have the corresponding envvar for each setting.

Now. When the authenticator (snowflake_jwt) is specified correctly, thus the driver will want to use AuthTypeJwt, but private key doesn't exist because the user forgot to specify it in all the possible places, then when driver attempts to parse the private key to prepare the JWT token, this step

pubBytes, err := x509.MarshalPKIXPublicKey(config.PrivateKey.Public())

will surely crash with a panic when config.PrivateKey is not specified, and is therefore nilwhen calling the Public() function on it.

The aim of this PR is to detect this condition before the panic can happen and error out gracefully with a descriptive error message so the user would know where to look for the fix.

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Codecov Report

Attention: Patch coverage is 33.33333% with 2 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Project coverage is 82.25%. Comparing base (1663004) to head (cf5a2e5).

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
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