Dont randomize the first charachters

[baloght]

Hi,

great tool, works fine!
Unfortunately I miss a feature. I would like to keep the first 3 chars/digits in a string.

5550123456789 --> 5551743025698

Is there any way to achieve this with the current code? If not, is there any plan you will deploy this feature later?

Cheers,
T

[realrolfje]

Hi Balogh, Thanks for trying out Anonimatron! The feature you are asking about is something that can be easily realized by making a simple Anonymizer and puting that on the classpath of Anonimatron. I haven't documented it very well, this may be a good trigger to do just that.

If you have a bit of Java knowledge, you should be able to build a class like this which can generate the strings you want.

Let me know if this helps.

[BElluu]

Hello. Can I take care of this task?

[realrolfje]

You are more than welcome to. If you need help just give a shout!

[baloght]

Hello. Can I take care of this task?

Thank you that would be great. Let me know if I can help in testing.

[BElluu]

Hi @realrolfje
please give me advice - should I create new class for that function or just add new method to CharacterStringAnonymizer class?

[realrolfje]

Personally I'd start with a separate class, maybe use the CharacterStringAnonymizer as a superclass to get you started. In our case, I see we also need digits.

Maybe @baloght can tell us what type of data this is, like "phone number" or "address" or "name", so we know if we need only digits, only upper case characters, or mixed case.

[BElluu]

#77

@baloght Does it meet your needs?
@realrolfje Can you give me code review?

[realrolfje]

Great work @BElluu , I've added my comments in a code review.

[BElluu]

@realrolfje where can I see you comments? Beucase in my pull request I do not see any conversation. In files changes do not see any comments too :)

---EDIT---
nvm. I see your comments. I will check that tomorrow. Thanks! :)

[realrolfje]

Yes sorry my fault, I posted the comment before I saved the review. Take your time, I haven't got a release schedule to keep :-)

[BElluu]

Hi @realrolfje Sorry but I only had time today to improve it. Could you verify if I did it correctly?

[baloght]

phone number

Hi, sorry for the late reply. The column contains phone numbers so data always will be digit.

[baloght]

Hi,

thanks for working on it.
Just a note:
Correct me if Im wrong but based on the pull request the digits are changed to totally random values.
In this case if we randomize the same phone-number at the same run we get different results.
I would like to keep the original RANDOMDIGITS behaviour where you always get the same result with the same salt string.
Wouldn't be easier to extend type RANDOMDIGITS with parameter options?