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In this post under DataMask, I will show with example how to side mask a simple text.

Side masking of a text means masking the sides of text leaving the middle portion of text intact.

So if the text is “insomnia” and I want to mask 2 characters from left and 3 characters from right, the result should be “**som***”.

Below is the complete main class for your reference

Example3

package core;
import io.github.freewarelabs.datamask.core.DataFormatType;
import io.github.freewarelabs.datamask.core.DataMaskManager;
import io.github.freewarelabs.datamask.core.MaskInformationDTO;
import io.github.freewarelabs.datamask.core.MaskType;
import io.github.freewarelabs.datamask.core.exception.DataMaskException;
public class Example3 {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws DataMaskException {
        MaskInformationDTO maskInformationDTO = MaskInformationDTO.builder()
                .maskType(MaskType.SIDE_MASKING)
                .leftCharacterCount(2)
                .rightCharacterCount(3)
                .dataFormatType(DataFormatType.TEXT).build();
        DataMaskManager dataMaskManager = new DataMaskManager();
        String result = dataMaskManager.maskText(maskInformationDTO, "insomnia");
        System.out.println(result);
    }
}

In the above code, at line 11, I create and configure an instance of “MaskInformationDTO” class.

While configuring “MaskInformationDTO” instance I am setting the mask type to “SIDE_MASKING” and data format type as “TEXT”.

We are also telling library to mask 2 characters on left by using “leftCharacterCount” method and 3 characters on right by using “rightCharacterCount” method.

This will tell “DataMaskManager” instance that the input data format is a simple text and it has to mask just the side portion of the text.

At line 17, I create an instance of “DataMaskManager” class.

At line 18, I call non-static “maskText” method of “DataMaskManager” class and pass instance of “MaskInformationDTO” created at line 11 and actual text to be masked as an argument.

This method returns a masked email which is printed to the console.

Below is the output

Output

**som***

In this way we can do side masking of simple text.