From 6fab84110f69d57b2aa288c858b0649b164ac141 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hans Van Akelyen <hans.van.akelyen@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:20:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix connection fetch, #4369

---
 .../apache/hop/pipeline/transforms/rest/Rest.java   | 13 +++++--------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/plugins/transforms/rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hop/pipeline/transforms/rest/Rest.java b/plugins/transforms/rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hop/pipeline/transforms/rest/Rest.java
index dd5d1f0ef7..06085d6965 100644
--- a/plugins/transforms/rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hop/pipeline/transforms/rest/Rest.java
+++ b/plugins/transforms/rest/src/main/java/org/apache/hop/pipeline/transforms/rest/Rest.java
@@ -570,14 +570,11 @@ public boolean init() {
       // use the information from the selection line if we have one.
       if (!Utils.isEmpty(meta.getConnectionName())) {
         try {
-          for (RestConnection connection :
-              metadataProvider.getSerializer(RestConnection.class).loadAll()) {
-            if (connection.getName().equals(meta.getConnectionName())) {
-              this.connection = connection;
-              baseUrl = resolve(connection.getBaseUrl());
-            }
-          }
-        } catch (HopException e) {
+          this.connection =
+              metadataProvider.getSerializer(RestConnection.class).load(meta.getConnectionName());
+          baseUrl = resolve(connection.getBaseUrl());
+
+        } catch (Exception e) {
           throw new RuntimeException(
               "REST connection " + meta.getConnectionName() + " could not be found");
         }