NAME

Data::Censor - censor sensitive stuff in a data structure

VERSION

Version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

    # OO way, letting you specify your own list of sensitive-looking fields, and
    # what they should be replaced by (all options here are optional)
    my $censor = Data::Censor->new(
        # Specify which fields to censor:
        sensitive_fields => [ qw(card_number password) ],

        # Specify text to replace their values with:
        replacement => '(Sensitive data hidden)',

        # Or specify callbacks for each field name which return the "censored"
        # value - in this case, masking a card number (PAN) to show only the
        # last four digits:
        replacement_callbacks => {
            card_number => sub {
                my $pan = shift;
                return "x" x (length($pan) - 4) . substr($pan, -4, 4);
            },
        },
    );
    
    # Censor the data in-place (changes the data structure, returns the number
    # of keys censored)
    my $censor_count = $censor->censor(\%data);

    # Alternate non-OO interface, using default settings and returning a cloned
    # version of the data after censoring:
    my $censored_data = Data::Censor->clone_and_censor(\%data);

new (CONSTRUCTOR)

Accepts the following arguments:

sensitive_fields

Either an arrayref of sensitive fields, checked for equality, or a regex to test against each key to see if it's considered sensitive.

replacement

The string to replace each value with. Any censoring callback provided in replacement_callbacks which matches this key will take precedence over this straightforward value.

replacement_callbacks

A hashref of key => sub {...}, where each key is a column name to match, and the coderef takes the uncensored value and returns the censored value, letting you for instance mask a card number but leave the last 4 digits visible.

If you provide both replacement and replacement_callbacks, any callback defined which matches the key being considered takes precedence.

METHODS

censor

Given a data structure (hashref), clones it and returns the cloned version after censoring potentially sensitive data within.

clone_and_censor

Clones the provided hashref (using Clone - will die if not installed), then censors the cloned data and returns it.

Can be used both as a class or object method - the former for a quick way to use it without having to instantiate an object, the latter if you want to apply custom settings to the object before using it.

  # As a class method
  my $censored_data = Data::Censor->clone_and_censor($data);

  # or as an object method
  my $censor = Data::Censor->new( replacement => "SECRET!" );
  my $censored_data = $censor->clone_and_censor($data);

AUTHOR

David Precious (BIGPRESH), <davidp at preshweb.co.uk>

This code was originally written for the Dancer project by myself; I've pulled it out into a seperate distribution as I was using it for code at work.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Data::Censor

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2018 David Precious.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a copy of the full license at:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0

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cpanm Data::Censor

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Data::Censor