Hiding or adding properites to values/json/stringify?

[Eduard Ruzga]

Few questions.
I have a user model defined with password and email.
Also it has dynamic property realized trough getters from 1.7 version.
Property is a gravatar link generated based on email.

When I send json data of user to client two things go wrong.
First: Password is included in json data.
Second: gravatar link isn't.

So far I used a work around of defining toJSON in instanceMethods.
Code looks like this

Question is, what is official way to add or hide properties from values/json.

    var User = sequelize.define('user',
        {
            email: {type: Sequelize.STRING, length: 255, allowNull: false, unique: true},
            password: {type: Sequelize.STRING, length: 20, allowNull: false}
        },
        {
            getterMethods : {
                avatar_link: function ()
                {
                    var hash = ...;
                    return 'http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/' + hash;
                }
            },
            instanceMethods: {
                toJSON: function()
                {
                    var res = this.values;
                    res.avatar_link = this.avatar_link;
                    delete res.password;
                    return res;
                }
            }
        });

So as you see I remove password property and add avatar link property in redefined toJSON.
But its somewhat hacky, may break some things eventually.

So, is there official/better way to handle this?

[Hugh Boylan]

I'm having a similar issue. Since eager loading with the 'include' parameter doesn't really work as advertised, I'm trying to chain a few queries together to add the required attributes to my instance before returning it.

Have you found a way to do this yet?

[lucas abreu]

Did you find a better way to do it?

[Mick Hansen]

https://github.com/sequelize/sequelize/issues/1462

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