implement scrubber for end user data in exceptions (#4999)

.changeset/flat-parrots-crash.md

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+'slate': minor
+'slate-react': minor
+---
+
+Add new Slate.Scrubber interface to allow scrubbing end user data from exception
+text. The default behavior remains unchanged.

docs/Summary.md

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
   - [RangeRef](api/locations/range-ref.md)
   - [Span](api/locations/span.md)
 - [Operation](api/operation.md)
+- [Scrubber](api/scrubber.md)
 
 ## Libraries
 

docs/api/scrubber.md

@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+# Scrubber API
+
+When Slate throws an exception, it includes a stringified representation of the
+relevant data. For example, if your application makes an API call to access the
+child of a text Node (an impossible operation), Slate will throw an exception
+like this:
+
+```
+Cannot get the child of a text node: {"text": "This is my text node."}
+```
+
+If your rich text editor can include sensitive customer data, you may want to
+scrub or obfuscate that text. To help with that, you can use the Scrubber API.
+Here's an example of recursively scrubbing the `'text'` fields of any entity
+that gets logged.
+
+```typescript
+import { Scrubber } from 'slate'
+
+Scrubber.setScrubber((key, value) => {
+  if (key === 'text') return '... scrubbed ...'
+  return value
+})
+```
+
+By setting the scrubber in this way, the error example given above will be
+printed as
+
+```
+Cannot get the child of a text node: {"text": "... scrubbed ..."}
+```
+
+## Text Randomizer Example
+
+Here's an example "textRandomizer" scrubber, which randomizes particular fields
+of Nodes, preserving their length, but replacing their contents with randomly
+chosen alphanumeric characters.
+
+```typescript
+import { Scrubber } from 'slate'
+
+const textRandomizer = (fieldNames: string[]) => (key, value) => {
+  if (fieldNames.includes(key)) {
+    if (typeof value === 'string') {
+      return value
+        .split('')
+        .map(generateRandomCharacter)
+        .join('')
+    } else {
+      return '... scrubbed ...'
+    }
+  }
+
+  return value
+}
+
+const generateRandomCharacter = (): string => {
+  const chars =
+    'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLKMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890'
+  return chars.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length))
+}
+
+// randomize the 'text' and 'src' fields of any Node that is included in an
+// exception thrown by Slate
+Scrubber.setScrubber(Scrubber.textRandomizer(['text', 'src']))
+```
+
+In this example, a Node that looked like
+
+```json
+{ "text": "My test input string", "count": 5 }
+```
+
+will be logged by Slate in an exception as (the random string will differ):
+
+```json
+{ "text": "rSIvEzKe39l6rqQSCfyv", "count": 5 }
+```

packages/slate-react/src/components/slate.tsx

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import React, { useMemo, useState, useCallback, useEffect, useRef } from 'react'
-import { Editor, Node, Element, Descendant } from 'slate'
+import React, { useState, useCallback, useEffect, useRef } from 'react'
+import { Editor, Node, Descendant, Scrubber } from 'slate'
 import { ReactEditor } from '../plugin/react-editor'
 import { FocusedContext } from '../hooks/use-focused'
 import { EditorContext } from '../hooks/use-slate-static'
@@ -30,12 +30,13 @@ export const Slate = (props: {
     if (!Node.isNodeList(value)) {
       throw new Error(
         `[Slate] value is invalid! Expected a list of elements` +
-          `but got: ${JSON.stringify(value)}`
+          `but got: ${Scrubber.stringify(value)}`
       )
     }
     if (!Editor.isEditor(editor)) {
       throw new Error(
-        `[Slate] editor is invalid! you passed:` + `${JSON.stringify(editor)}`
+        `[Slate] editor is invalid! you passed:` +
+          `${Scrubber.stringify(editor)}`
       )
     }
     editor.children = value

packages/slate-react/src/plugin/react-editor.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
-import { Editor, Node, Path, Point, Range, Transforms, BaseEditor } from 'slate'
+import {
+  BaseEditor,
+  Editor,
+  Node,
+  Path,
+  Point,
+  Range,
+  Scrubber,
+  Transforms,
+} from 'slate'
 
 import { Key } from '../utils/key'
 import {
@@ -108,7 +117,7 @@ export const ReactEditor = {
     }
 
     throw new Error(
-      `Unable to find the path for Slate node: ${JSON.stringify(node)}`
+      `Unable to find the path for Slate node: ${Scrubber.stringify(node)}`
     )
   },
 
@@ -285,7 +294,7 @@ export const ReactEditor = {
 
     if (!domNode) {
       throw new Error(
-        `Cannot resolve a DOM node from Slate node: ${JSON.stringify(node)}`
+        `Cannot resolve a DOM node from Slate node: ${Scrubber.stringify(node)}`
       )
     }
 
@@ -337,7 +346,9 @@ export const ReactEditor = {
 
     if (!domPoint) {
       throw new Error(
-        `Cannot resolve a DOM point from Slate point: ${JSON.stringify(point)}`
+        `Cannot resolve a DOM point from Slate point: ${Scrubber.stringify(
+          point
+        )}`
       )
     }
 

packages/slate/src/index.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 export * from './create-editor'
+export * from './interfaces/custom-types'
 export * from './interfaces/editor'
 export * from './interfaces/element'
 export * from './interfaces/location'
@@ -10,6 +11,6 @@ export * from './interfaces/point'
 export * from './interfaces/point-ref'
 export * from './interfaces/range'
 export * from './interfaces/range-ref'
+export * from './interfaces/scrubber'
 export * from './interfaces/text'
-export * from './interfaces/custom-types'
 export * from './transforms'

packages/slate/src/interfaces/node.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { produce } from 'immer'
-import { Editor, Path, Range, Text } from '..'
+import { Editor, Path, Range, Text, Scrubber } from '..'
 import { Element, ElementEntry } from './element'
 
 /**
@@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ export const Node: NodeInterface = {
 
     if (Text.isText(node)) {
       throw new Error(
-        `Cannot get the ancestor node at path [${path}] because it refers to a text node instead: ${node}`
+        `Cannot get the ancestor node at path [${path}] because it refers to a text node instead: ${Scrubber.stringify(
+          node
+        )}`
       )
     }
 
@@ -145,7 +147,7 @@ export const Node: NodeInterface = {
   child(root: Node, index: number): Descendant {
     if (Text.isText(root)) {
       throw new Error(
-        `Cannot get the child of a text node: ${JSON.stringify(root)}`
+        `Cannot get the child of a text node: ${Scrubber.stringify(root)}`
       )
     }
 
@@ -153,7 +155,7 @@ export const Node: NodeInterface = {
 
     if (c == null) {
       throw new Error(
-        `Cannot get child at index \`${index}\` in node: ${JSON.stringify(
+        `Cannot get child at index \`${index}\` in node: ${Scrubber.stringify(
           root
         )}`
       )
@@ -203,7 +205,9 @@ export const Node: NodeInterface = {
 
     if (Editor.isEditor(node)) {
       throw new Error(
-        `Cannot get the descendant node at path [${path}] because it refers to the root editor node instead: ${node}`
+        `Cannot get the descendant node at path [${path}] because it refers to the root editor node instead: ${Scrubber.stringify(
+          node
+        )}`
       )
     }
 
@@ -287,7 +291,7 @@ export const Node: NodeInterface = {
   fragment(root: Node, range: Range): Descendant[] {
     if (Text.isText(root)) {
       throw new Error(
-        `Cannot get a fragment starting from a root text node: ${JSON.stringify(
+        `Cannot get a fragment starting from a root text node: ${Scrubber.stringify(
           root
         )}`
       )
@@ -339,7 +343,7 @@ export const Node: NodeInterface = {
 
       if (Text.isText(node) || !node.children[p]) {
         throw new Error(
-          `Cannot find a descendant at path [${path}] in node: ${JSON.stringify(
+          `Cannot find a descendant at path [${path}] in node: ${Scrubber.stringify(
             root
           )}`
         )
@@ -428,7 +432,9 @@ export const Node: NodeInterface = {
 
     if (!Text.isText(node)) {
       throw new Error(
-        `Cannot get the leaf node at path [${path}] because it refers to a non-leaf node: ${node}`
+        `Cannot get the leaf node at path [${path}] because it refers to a non-leaf node: ${Scrubber.stringify(
+          node
+        )}`
       )
     }
 

packages/slate/src/interfaces/scrubber.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+export type Scrubber = (key: string, value: unknown) => unknown
+
+export interface ScrubberInterface {
+  setScrubber(scrubber: Scrubber | undefined): void
+  stringify(value: any): string
+}
+
+let _scrubber: Scrubber | undefined = undefined
+
+/**
+ * This interface implements a stringify() function, which is used by Slate
+ * internally when generating exceptions containing end user data. Developers
+ * using Slate may call Scrubber.setScrubber() to alter the behavior of this
+ * stringify() function.
+ *
+ * For example, to prevent the cleartext logging of 'text' fields within Nodes:
+ *
+ *    import { Scrubber } from 'slate';
+ *    Scrubber.setScrubber((key, val) => {
+ *      if (key === 'text') return '...scrubbed...'
+ *      return val
+ *    });
+ *
+ */
+export const Scrubber: ScrubberInterface = {
+  setScrubber(scrubber: Scrubber | undefined): void {
+    _scrubber = scrubber
+  },
+
+  stringify(value: any): string {
+    return JSON.stringify(value, _scrubber)
+  },
+}

packages/slate/src/transforms/general.ts

@@ -1,17 +1,18 @@
 import { createDraft, finishDraft, isDraft } from 'immer'
 import {
-  Node,
-  Editor,
-  Selection,
-  Range,
-  Point,
-  Text,
-  Element,
-  Operation,
-  Descendant,
-  NodeEntry,
-  Path,
   Ancestor,
+  Descendant,
+  Editor,
+  Element,
+  Node,
+  NodeEntry,
+  Operation,
+  Path,
+  Point,
+  Range,
+  Scrubber,
+  Selection,
+  Text,
 } from '..'
 
 export interface GeneralTransforms {
@@ -73,7 +74,9 @@ const applyToDraft = (editor: Editor, selection: Selection, op: Operation) => {
         prev.children.push(...node.children)
       } else {
         throw new Error(
-          `Cannot apply a "merge_node" operation at path [${path}] to nodes of different interfaces: ${node} ${prev}`
+          `Cannot apply a "merge_node" operation at path [${path}] to nodes of different interfaces: ${Scrubber.stringify(
+            node
+          )} ${Scrubber.stringify(prev)}`
         )
       }
 
@@ -236,7 +239,7 @@ const applyToDraft = (editor: Editor, selection: Selection, op: Operation) => {
         if (selection == null) {
           if (!Range.isRange(newProperties)) {
             throw new Error(
-              `Cannot apply an incomplete "set_selection" operation properties ${JSON.stringify(
+              `Cannot apply an incomplete "set_selection" operation properties ${Scrubber.stringify(
                 newProperties
               )} when there is no current selection.`
             )

packages/slate/src/transforms/node.ts

@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 import {
+  Ancestor,
   Editor,
   Element,
   Location,
   Node,
+  NodeEntry,
   Path,
   Point,
   Range,
+  Scrubber,
   Text,
   Transforms,
-  NodeEntry,
-  Ancestor,
 } from '..'
 import { NodeMatch, PropsCompare, PropsMerge } from '../interfaces/editor'
 import { PointRef } from '../interfaces/point-ref'
@@ -406,9 +407,9 @@ export const NodeTransforms: NodeTransforms = {
         properties = rest as Partial<Element>
       } else {
         throw new Error(
-          `Cannot merge the node at path [${path}] with the previous sibling because it is not the same kind: ${JSON.stringify(
+          `Cannot merge the node at path [${path}] with the previous sibling because it is not the same kind: ${Scrubber.stringify(
             node
-          )} ${JSON.stringify(prevNode)}`
+          )} ${Scrubber.stringify(prevNode)}`
         )
       }
 

packages/slate/src/transforms/selection.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Editor, Location, Point, Range, Transforms } from '..'
+import { Editor, Location, Point, Range, Scrubber, Transforms } from '..'
 import { SelectionEdge, MoveUnit } from '../interfaces/types'
 
 export interface SelectionCollapseOptions {
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ export const SelectionTransforms: SelectionTransforms = {
 
     if (!Range.isRange(target)) {
       throw new Error(
-        `When setting the selection and the current selection is \`null\` you must provide at least an \`anchor\` and \`focus\`, but you passed: ${JSON.stringify(
+        `When setting the selection and the current selection is \`null\` you must provide at least an \`anchor\` and \`focus\`, but you passed: ${Scrubber.stringify(
           target
         )}`
       )

packages/slate/test/interfaces/Scrubber/scrubber.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import { Node, Scrubber } from 'slate'
+
+export const input = {
+  customField: 'some very long custom field value that will get scrubbed',
+  anotherField: 'this field should not get scrambled',
+}
+
+export const test = (value: Node) => {
+  Scrubber.setScrubber((key, value) =>
+    key === 'customField' ? '... scrubbed ...' : value
+  )
+  const stringified = Scrubber.stringify(value)
+  Scrubber.setScrubber(undefined)
+
+  const unmarshaled = JSON.parse(stringified)
+  return (
+    // ensure that first field has been scrubbed
+    unmarshaled.customField === '... scrubbed ...' &&
+    // ensure that second field is unaltered
+    unmarshaled.anotherField === input.anotherField
+  )
+}
+
+export const output = true