I had no clue about it - I mean never heard the terms :)

Thank you very much for point to the direction. After some googling, it is 
almost working. 

Encoding is just fine (using btoa). 

When I read it back and want to decode - it's not yet behaving right. I'm 
suspecting my javascript is a problem. 

There is a bunch of fields which now have encrypted values (class 
'EncodedDescriptionField'), and I am trying to use the following to reclaim 
the original values: 

$(".EncodedDescriptionField").html(atob($(".EncodedDescriptionField").text()));

What am I doing wrong? (It doesn't change the values - they remain as they 
are, encrypted)

On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 5:35:39 PM UTC-4, João Matos wrote:
>
> Have you considered base64 encoding/decoding?
>
> quinta-feira, 16 de Maio de 2019 às 20:43:58 UTC+1, Vlad escreveu:
>>
>> I have the following javascript in the view: 
>>
>>             var id = $('#CurrentCartId').text();
>>             var description = $(this).text();
>>             var url='{{=URL('cart','description')}}';
>>             url += '/' + id + '/';
>>             url += description;
>>             ajax(url,[],':eval');
>>
>> the reason I use url+= to pass parameters instead of using args in the 
>> URL helper is because the parameters are coming from the html itself - they 
>> are not known in the controller py. 
>>
>> now the problem is that it changes the description and I have no way to 
>> recover its original value. for example, when description is "askjdf d  
>>  dka;lskdj  3838&^&%$#@ ((alksjdf__ - ))" (just a randomly typed string in 
>> this case), it comes out as "askjdf_d___dka_lskdj__3838_____". Obviously, 
>> it needs to do this conversion in order to pass  the parameter, but I need 
>> to be able to recreate the original string, entered by the user. 
>>
>> Is there a better way of doing this? I.e. a better way of passing a 
>> parameter in  a way that it could be "recreated" and stored in the database 
>> exactly as typed by the user? 
>>
>

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