I think there's a couple of options. 1. Make the c...

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[andrewoma]

I think there's a couple of options. 1. Make the converter requiring a connection lazy so it only fails if a connection is actually required (which is rarely in which case you'd have to wrap it). 2. Acquire connections from DataSource eagerly - this seems problematic as it would need to release the connections and acquire and release for every field