def get_conn(self):
        """
        
        """
        conn = self.get_connection(self.mysql_conn_id)
        conn_config = {
            "user": conn.login,
            "passwd": conn.password or '',
            "host": conn.host or 'localhost',
            "db": self.schema or conn.schema or ''
        }

        if not conn.port:
            conn_config["port"] = 3306
        else:
            conn_config["port"] = int(conn.port)

        if conn.extra_dejson.get('charset', False):
            conn_config["charset"] = conn.extra_dejson["charset"]
            if (conn_config["charset"]).lower() == 'utf8' or\
                    (conn_config["charset"]).lower() == 'utf-8':
                conn_config["use_unicode"] = True
        if conn.extra_dejson.get('cursor', False):
            if (conn.extra_dejson["cursor"]).lower() == 'sscursor':
                conn_config["cursorclass"] = MySQLdb.cursors.SSCursor
            elif (conn.extra_dejson["cursor"]).lower() == 'dictcursor':
                conn_config["cursorclass"] = MySQLdb.cursors.DictCursor
            elif (conn.extra_dejson["cursor"]).lower() == 'ssdictcursor':
                conn_config["cursorclass"] = MySQLdb.cursors.SSDictCursor
        local_infile = conn.extra_dejson.get('local_infile', False)
        if conn.extra_dejson.get('ssl', False):
            # SSL parameter for MySQL has to be a dictionary and in case
            # of extra/dejson we can get string if extra is passed via
            # URL parameters
            dejson_ssl = conn.extra_dejson['ssl']
            if isinstance(dejson_ssl, six.string_types):
                dejson_ssl = json.loads(dejson_ssl)
            conn_config['ssl'] = dejson_ssl
        if conn.extra_dejson.get('unix_socket'):
            conn_config['unix_socket'] = conn.extra_dejson['unix_socket']
        if local_infile:
            conn_config["local_infile"] = 1
        conn = MySQLdb.connect(**conn_config)
        return conn