Support using pre-signed JWT for AuthTypeJwt authentication #1509
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Summary
This PR adds support for passing an already signed JWT to the Snowflake AuthTypeJwt authenticator.
If a JWT is provided, it will be used directly for authentication.
If not, the existing flow remains unchanged — the authenticator will generate a new JWT using the provided private key.
Background / Reason for Change
In our project, the private key used for Snowflake authentication is stored in AWS Secrets Manager.
Currently, every lambda function that uses the Snowflake Go driver’s requires retrieving the privateKey from AWS Secrets.
To minimize calls to AWS Secrets Manager, we want the option to sign our own JWT tokens in the authorizer lambda function, where the private key can be kept in an in-memory cache, and pass the already signed jwt from authorizer to the rest of the lambda function instead of sending the privateKey.
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