Blur

A library for filtering information from objects such as credit card information or other things which may be logged

Usage

var obj = {
    creditcard: {
        number: 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP',
        year: 17,
        month: 4
    }
};
 
var result = Blur(obj, { number: Blur.creditCard });

Will result in

{
    creditcard: {
        number: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXMNOP',
        year: 17,
        month: 4
    }
}

Blur(object, options)

Recursively operate on keys in an object to censor, remove or modify values in some way to make it safe for logging.

• object - Object to operated on
• options - object describing keys to be modified where:
  • <keyName> - name of key to be modified, and value is type of operation to be performed.

Operation types:

• Blur.creditCard - This option is used to set any string to show only the last four characters and blur out the rest with X's
• Blur.remove - Completely removes all matching keys
• Blur.censor - Replaces all values matching keys with the string [BLURRED]