Streaming obfuscation

An Obfuscator has method streamTo which takes a StringBuilder, Writer or other Appendable, and returns a Writer that will obfuscate the written text automatically.

Preventing leaking string representations

The following methods of Obfuscator can be used to help prevent accidentally leaking string representations of objects, for instance by logging them:

• obfuscateList, obfuscateSet and obfuscateCollection create List, Set and Collection decorators respectively that obfuscate separate elements when calling toString().
• obfuscateMap creates a Map decorator that obfuscates separate values (but not keys) when calling toString().
• obfuscateObject creates a wrapper around an existing object that obfuscates the object when calling toString().

Obfuscating complex structures

Besides obfuscating simple text, it's possible to obfuscate complex structures using the following classes and libraries:

• MapObfuscator can obfuscate maps by providing a separate Obfuscator for each entry. Entries can even have no obfuscation at all.
• PropertiesObfuscator can obfuscate Properties objects by providing a separate Obfuscator for each property. Properties can even have no obfuscation at all.
• obfuscation-commons-lang provides extensions to Apache Commons Lang for obfuscating objects.
• obfuscation-http provides support for obfuscating HTTP requests and responses.
• obfuscation-jackson and obfuscation-json provide support for obfuscating properties in JSON documents.
• obfuscation-xml provides support for obfuscating properties in XML documents.
• obfuscation-yaml provides support for obfuscating properties in YAML documents.

Writing custom obfucators

Package com.github.robtimus.obfuscation.support provides several classes that can be used to create custom obfuscators.

Extensions

• obfuscation-annotations provides general purpose Obfuscator annotations.
• obfuscation-jackson-databind provides integration with jackson-databind.
• obfuscation-spring provides integration with Spring and Spring Boot.