I appreciate the intent but this feels like bad solution. If a toString() 
method return a password, then the security issue is in the toString() IMO.

Gary

On 2024/09/03 14:18:03 Melloware Inc wrote:
> I could be wrong but his whole intent of that PR was not logging a
> bean.toString() that might accidentally expose a password.  That seems to
> be his entire goal.  So if there is a better way to achieve that goal is
> what i think the developer was going for.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 9:52 AM Gary D. Gregory <ggreg...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 2024/08/31 12:44:19 Melloware Inc wrote:
> > > I feel like this PR is a good idea.  Just from a safety perspective and
> > not
> > > accidentally logging a password.
> >
> > The PR does nothing to avoid logging passwords. It only plays games when a
> > bean implements toString() which might have unexpected consequences. I'm
> > not sure.
> >
> > I took another look and I'm not sure this is helpful though, and it also
> > contains some global variable editing that will be problematic IMO. See my
> > comments in the PR.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 5:41 PM Gary D. Gregory <ggreg...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have thoughts on PR
> > > > https://github.com/apache/commons-beanutils/pull/276 ?
> > > >
> > > > TY,
> > > > Gary
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