ecto_anon

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Simple way to handle data anonymization directly in your Ecto schemas


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Installation

Add :ecto_anon to your mix.exs dependencies:

def deps do
[
{:ecto_anon, "~> 0.1.0"}
]
end

Usage

Define an anon_schema with all fields you want to be anonymized in your schema module

defmodule User do
use Ecto.Schema
use EctoAnon.Schema
anon_schema [
:email
]
schema "users" do
field :name, :string
field :age, :integer
field :email, :string
end
end

Then use EctoAnon.run to apply anonymization on desired resource

user = Repo.get(User, id)
%User{name: "jane", age: 0, email: "jane@email.com"}
EctoAnon.run(user, Repo)
{:ok, %User{name: "jane", age: 0, email: "redacted"}}

Schema

Declare an anon_schema with all fields you want to anonymize (regular fields, associations, embeds)

defmodule User do
use Ecto.Schema
use EctoAnon.Schema
anon_schema [
:email
]
schema "users" do
field :name, :string
field :age, :integer
field :email, :string
anonymized()
end
end

By adding a anonymized field in your migration, you can add anonymized() in your schema just like timestamps().

Default values

By default, a field will be anonymized with a default value based on its type

type value
integer 0
float 0.0
string redacted
map %{}
decimal Decimal . new ( " 0.0 " )
date ~D[ 1970-01-01 ]
datetime ~U[ 1970-01-01 00:00:00Z ]
datetime_usec ~U[ 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000Z ]
naive_datetime ~N[ 1970-01-01 00:00:00 ]
naive_datetime_usec ~N[ 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000 ]
time ~T[ 00:00:00 ]
time_usec ~T[ 00:00:00.000000 ]
boolean no change
id no change
binary_id no change
binary no change

Native anonymization functions

anon_schema([
email: :anonymized_email,
birthdate: [:anonymized_date, options: [:only_year]]
])

Natively, ecto_anon embeds differents functions to suit your needs

function role options
:anonymized_date Anonymizes partially or completely a date/datetime :only_year
:anonymized_email Anonymizes partially or completely an email :partial
:anonymized_phone Anonymizes a phone number (currently only FR)
:random_uuid Returns a random UUID

Custom functions

anon_schema([
address: &__MODULE__.anonymized_address/3
])
def anonymized_address(:map, %{} = address, _opts \\ []) do
address
|> Map.drop(["street"])
end

You can also pass custom functions with the following signature: function(type, value, options)

Migrations

By importing EctoAnon.Migration in your ecto migration file, you can add an anonymized() macro that will generate an anonymized boolean field in your table:

defmodule MyApp.Repo.Migrations.CreateUser do
use Ecto.Migration
import EctoAnon.Migration
def change do
create table(:users) do
add :firstname, :string
add :lastname, :string
timestamps()
anonymized()
end
end
end

Combined with log option when executing the anonymization, it will allow you to identify anonymized rows and exclude them in your queries with EctoAnon.Query.not_anonymized/1.

Options

cascade

When set to true, allows ecto-anon to preload and anonymize all associations (and associations of these associations) automatically in cascade. Could be used to anonymize all data related a struct in a single call. Note that this won't traverse belongs_to associations.

Default: false

log

When set to true, it will set anonymized field when EctoAnon.run applies anonymization on a ressource.

Default: true

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This library is licensed under the MIT