Hi,
I am looking at Description column of a bank statement (CSV download) that
has the following format
scala> account_table.printSchema
root
|-- TransactionDate: date (nullable = true)
|-- TransactionType: string (nullable = true)
|-- Description: string (nullable = true)
|-- Value: double (nullable = true)
|-- Balance: double (nullable = true)
|-- AccountName: string (nullable = true)
|-- AccountNumber: string (nullable = true)
The column description for BACS payments contains the name of the
individual who paid into the third party account. I need to mask the name
but cannot simply use a literal as below for all contents of descriptions
column!
f1.withColumn("Description", lit("*** Masked
***")).select('Description.as("Who paid")
So I try the following combination
f1.select(trim(substring(substring_index('Description, ",",
1),2,50)).as("name in clear"),
reverse(regexp_replace(regexp_replace(regexp_replace(substring(regexp_replace('Description,
"^['A-Z]", "XX"),2,6),"[A-F]","X")," ","X"),"[,]","R")).as("Masked")).show
+------------------+------+
| in clear|Masked|
+------------------+------+
| FATAH SABAH|HXTXXX|
| C HIGGINSON|GIHXXX|
| SOLTA A|XTLOSX|
+------------------+------+
This seems to work as it not only masks the name but also makes it
consistent for all names (in other words, the same username gets the same
mask).
Are there any better alternatives?
Thanks
Dr Mich Talebzadeh
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