How to create a custom Allure step function for sensible data
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- [ ] bug report
- [x] feature request
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What is the current behavior?
With a step decorator like this:

Which takes an element (a text box) and enters the value in it. In the step function I display the value that I want to enter No matter what I enter on the step title, the report always shows the info that was passed as arguments to the function.
My report looks like the following image:

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem
Not a bug
What is the expected behavior?
Thus, the "value" argument will always be displayed and that is something that I cannot have on certain projects. I could either use with not showing the value at all or to change it to something like '*****'. Is there anyway to make a custom step function that solves my problem?.
What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?
I am currently working on a Testing Automation team, using Python and Allure to make reports of all the test cases that we run. Sometimes we deal with sensible data (e.g: passwords) that I can't show directly on the reports due to data protection policies.
Please tell us about your environment:
- Allure version: 2.13.0
- Test framework: [email protected]
- Allure adaptor: [email protected]
Other information
Hello, I use in my tests the Ansible way.
All passwords are encrypted in my inventory in SHA256 with decode_pass.
Before starting the tests, just set an environment var (decode_pass).
During tests, the functions receive the encrypted vars and then they use os.environ["decode_pass"] in order to decrypt.
Even thought I did not use @ric79 specific answer it did give me the idea to use the cryptography library.
I created a new function for the sensible data that encrypts the strings and then, inside this new function I call the one I shared on the screenshot. This results in the following report:

Which solves my privacy issues. Thank you @ric79