From a7a6d970be0b818c61f622ef8cbeb50685374780 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Christou <andreas.christou@grafana.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:13:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Copy parseURL function to where it's used

---
 pkg/api/datasource/validation.go | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pkg/api/datasource/validation.go b/pkg/api/datasource/validation.go
index f834cec4e1f..53e41a93ebf 100644
--- a/pkg/api/datasource/validation.go
+++ b/pkg/api/datasource/validation.go
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/infra/log"
 	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/services/datasources"
-	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/tsdb/mssql"
 )
 
 var logger = log.New("datasource")
@@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ func ValidateURL(typeName, urlStr string) (*url.URL, error) {
 	var err error
 	switch strings.ToLower(typeName) {
 	case "mssql":
-		u, err = mssql.ParseURL(urlStr, logger)
+		u, err = parseURL(urlStr, logger)
 	default:
 		logger.Debug("Applying default URL parsing for this data source type", "type", typeName, "url", urlStr)
 
@@ -90,3 +89,28 @@ func ValidateURL(typeName, urlStr string) (*url.URL, error) {
 
 	return u, nil
 }
+
+type DebugOnlyLogger interface {
+	Debug(msg string, args ...interface{})
+}
+
+// ParseURL tries to parse an URL string into a URL object.
+func parseURL(u string, logger DebugOnlyLogger) (*url.URL, error) {
+	logger.Debug("Parsing URL", "url", u)
+
+	// Recognize ODBC connection strings like host\instance:1234
+	reODBC := regexp.MustCompile(`^[^\\:]+(?:\\[^:]+)?(?::\d+)?(?:;.+)?$`)
+	var host string
+	switch {
+	case reODBC.MatchString(u):
+		logger.Debug("Recognized as ODBC URL format", "url", u)
+		host = u
+	default:
+		logger.Debug("Couldn't recognize as valid MSSQL URL", "url", u)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("unrecognized URL format: %q", u)
+	}
+	return &url.URL{
+		Scheme: "sqlserver",
+		Host:   host,
+	}, nil
+}