Applying the Redaction Rules

Run the following command from your redact-gs/ directory to export redacted versions of the sample documents. Modify the connection details as needed to match your environment. A collection filter (-collection_filter "gs-samples") is used to select the documents for redaction and export.

$ mlcp.sh export -host localhost -port 8000 \
    -username user -password password -mode local \
    -collection_filter "gs-samples" \
    -output_file_path ./output/ \
    -redaction "gs-rules"

Running the export command saves the redacted documents to an output/ sub-directory. You should have the following filesystem hierarch. The “extra” redact-gs sub-directory is created by mlcp because the document URIs are of the form /redact-s/filename.

redact-gs/
  output/
    redact-gs/
      sample1.xml
      sample2.json

The following table shows the result of redacting the XML sample document. Notice that the telephone number in the summary element has been partially redacted by the redact-us-phone function. Also, the id element has been completely hidden by the conceal function. The affected parts of the content are highlighted in the table.

<personal>
  <name>Little Bopeep</name>
  <summary>Seeking lost sheep. Please call 123-456-7890.</summary>
  <id>12-3456789</id></personal>

<personal>
  <name>Little Bopeep</name>
  <summary>Seeking lost sheep. Please call ###-###-7890.</summary>
</personal>

The following table shows the result of redacting the JSON sample document. Notice that the telephone number in the summary property has been partially redacted by the redact-us-phone function. Also, the id property has been completely hidden by the conceal function. The affected parts of the content are highlighted in the table.

{"personal": {
  "name": "Jack Sprat", 
  "summary": "Free nutrition advice! Call (234)567-8901 now!",
  "id": "45-6789123"
}}

{"personal": {
  "name": "Jack Sprat", 
  "summary": "Free nutrition advice! Call (###)###-8901 now!"
}}

To redact documents when copying them between databases rather than exporting them, add the -redaction option to the mlcp copy command line.