Cleansing Mongo data

[Nate Finch]

It seems as though we should be cleansing all the keys.... since we never
know what queries we might want to make in the future.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:04 PM Katherine Cox-Buday <
katherine.cox-buday at canonical.com> wrote:

>
> As I have only just discovered the need to cleanse mongo data, I can't say
> for sure, but it looks like we may have been cleansing things in the parts
> of Juju that need it. William may know more.
>
> If not, I imagine a small upgrade step would make short work of any
> problems.
>
> roger peppe <roger.peppe at canonical.com> writes:
>
> > This is useful, thanks.
> >
> > Note that's it's not necessary to cleanse *all* keys that go into Mongo,
> > just the ones that might be used in queries.
> >
> > But one thought... what about keys that already contain full-width
> > dollar and dot?
> >
> >   cheers,
> >     rog.
> >
> > On 23 June 2016 at 21:09, Katherine Cox-Buday
> > <katherine.cox-buday at canonical.com> wrote:
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> William gave me a good review and it came up that I wasn't cleansing
> >> some of
> >> the data being placed in Mongo. I wasn't aware this had to be done,
> >> and
> >> after talking to a few other folks it became apparent that maybe not
> >> many
> >> people know we should be doing this.
> >>
> >> At any rate, William also pointed me to some existing code which did
> >> this.
> >> I've pulled it out into the mongo/utils package for general
> >> consumption. The
> >> comments do a pretty good job of elucidating why this is necessary.
> >>
> >> https://github.com/juju/juju/blob/master/mongo/utils/data_cleansing.go
> >>
> >> -
> >> Katherine
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