I've taken a stab at implementing this as I recently was wanting this
functionality.  See attached for the patch (including docs and unit tests).
 Feedback welcome.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Byron Young <byron.yo...@riverbed.com>wrote:

> Tomas Doran wrote on 2009-01-29:
> >
> > On 29 Jan 2009, at 18:53, Byron Young wrote:
> >
> >> Hi - I'm not sure what the repost policy on patches, but I have the
> >> feeling this one slipped through the cracks.  Let me know if it's
> >> generally annoying to repost stuff.
> >
> > No, reposting if things get dropped on the floor good :)
> >
> > If you have time, then arriving on #catalyst-dev and making noise
> > also gets stuff done.
> >
> >> This is a patch that allows you to suppress printing the value of
> >> certain query or body parameters when running Catalyst in debug
> >> mode - For example, if you want to hide passwords sent from the
> >> login page, you can put this in your app config (yaml):
> >  Having been discussed in #catalyst-dev, we think that the patch could
> > be made both more generic, and more elegant.
> >
> > The key thing is to split the table drawing, and the data filtering
> > into separate methods (maybe filter_debug_data?).
> >
> > This would then allow you to filter per-type, and support things such as
> >  redact_parameters (all), redact_body_parameters,
> > redact_query_parameters, and even potentially to add support for
> > filtering things like the URI (I can see use-cases where that'd be
> > significant - e.g. not wanting to log session IDs which are in URIs)..
> >
> > Have a look at the way the debug screen stuff works (in
> > Catalyst::Engine), this is more elegant and would also benefit from
> > being able to have things redacted I guess - as with the current
> > patch, you're going to display the things you're redacting in the
> > logs to the end user...
> >
> > Cheers
> > t0m
> >
>
> Tom,
>
> Thanks for the feedback.  I think you're referring to $c->dump_these() and
> it's usage in finalize_error().  I'll refactor log_parameters() to call a
> separate method that will return the params to log, akin to dump_these().
>  Not sure when I'll have time for it since my current solution is working
> for me and I have some big deadlines coming up.  Hopefully within the next
> month.
>
> Thanks
> byron
>
>
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