Conditional Hooks

[xErik]

Hello!

I am using hooks to prevent sensitive information in certain fields reaching the database. And this works well.

However, I'd like to save the complete serialzied data in a local Hive storage.

I could call myObject.toMap() but this filters out the sensitive information, which in this case I want to store locally.

I could make the hooks check a global variable to decide on the serialization strategy. But this doesn't feel right.

Another option is to use Hive-annotation to store objects locally. But this results in annotation monsters for two kinds of serializations. Like the one below:

@HiveType(typeId: 0)
@MappableClass()
class Encrypted with EncryptedMappable {
  @HiveField(0)
  List<int> messageCipher;

  @MappableField(hook: EmptyListHook())
  @HiveField(1)
  List<int> messagePlain;
...

Question

Is there a way to set a switch to disable all hooks when calling toJson() or toMap()? I noticed that toString() does not seem to apply any hooks.

toJson(hooks:false)

I am aware that this is probably out-of scope for this project, but I have to ask.

Thank you!

[schultek]

There is no built-in way to conditionally apply hooks, and also not planned.

Other than using a global variable to toggle this maybe you can use Dart Zones for a cleaner implementation.