What is the proper way to encrypt table id?

Hi,

Im using uuid for my primary keys but i want is to encode uuid before returning it to user.

for example:

{
  id: "a3ae9976-94b4-46ce-afdd-76a665ee7316"
}

what i want to do is to make something like this:

let list = model.fetchAll().map((item) => {
  return {id: encode(item.id)};
});

which will become

{
  id: "45IOgC2FDfr5bkbS"
}

Best Regards, Jason Villalon

[jasonvillalon]

Hi!

Thank you for your reply. the combination of your 2 suggestions solved my problem.

what happen is all primary keys which is “id” is added as hidden using visiblity plugin and all the foreign keys are manually encoded and decoded in parse and format methods.

encoding and decoding id (primary key) in parse and format will cause of unpopulated related records. and the reason why i cannot add the foreign keys in hidden is that it will not being populated when fetching withRelated.

All in all. thank you very much. closing this issue now.

Best Regards, Jason Villalon

[chamini2]

Another alternative is using the Visibility plugin:

Model.extend({
  hidden: ['id'],
  parse(attrs) {
    attrs.enconded_id = encode(attrs.id);
  },
  submodules() {
    return this.hasMany(Modules, 'parent_id', 'id');
  }
})

That way you create relationships using id but the users only see enconded_id.