FME Packages - Using existing database/web connections

How should we use existing database connections inside of an FME Package?

Will the python api have functions which will enable the use of these connections? I was working on something where I wanted to connect to a database and I realised that it’s not possible to use the existing database connection - this is probably a good thing but kind of killed my project. 

Then it got me wondering if this will/should ever be a possibility? seems like exposing that kind of access to third parties poses a pretty big security risk. You could pretty well hide some malicious code which just scrapes all the host, username and password data and post it to some server. 

I guess direct database access via a package might never be allowed - at least not until there is the same kind of security which Oauth offers for authentication.