From 49b33c7b05597da77e0cebed7928f5beaef7bc9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cesnimda <connor.babbington@cesnimda.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:05:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: avoid disposed mariadb connection during startup

---
 JobTrackerApi/Program.cs | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/JobTrackerApi/Program.cs b/JobTrackerApi/Program.cs
index 64fdfe5..6680dd4 100644
--- a/JobTrackerApi/Program.cs
+++ b/JobTrackerApi/Program.cs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
 using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Diagnostics;
 using JobTrackerApi.Data;
 using System.Data.Common;
+using MySqlConnector;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity;
@@ -673,9 +674,13 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS "GmailConnections" (
     }
     else
     {
-        using DbConnection conn = db.Database.GetDbConnection();
-        conn.Open();
-        EnsureIdentityTablesMySql(conn);
+        var cs = app.Configuration.GetConnectionString("JobTracker");
+        if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(cs))
+        {
+            using var conn = new MySqlConnection(cs);
+            conn.Open();
+            EnsureIdentityTablesMySql(conn);
+        }
     }
 
     db.Database.Migrate();