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? >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/1c716eaa-886a-4264-b80d-d51e035ecb55%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.