SecretField other than str and bytes

[conradogarciaberrotaran]

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Description

Hi, I'm interested in marking some fields as PII using SecretFields. This means handling other types of data such as dates and enums. (see resource)
I've seen the implementation for _SecretField to try to implement my own but it's asserting that if it's not a string, then it must be bytes (see link)
Is there any way to handle dates and enums as a secret field?

Thanks!

Affected Components

• Data serialization - .model_dump() and .model_dump_json()

[sydney-runkle]

@conradogarciaberrotaran,

Great question! We don't currently support the handling of fields that aren't str or bytes types as secret. I do think this is a valuable feature request, though!

[conradogarciaberrotaran]

Hi @sydney-runkle, thank you for your reply.
I went ahead and tried to implement it, with some difficulties, but the basic functionality is working. I may have some things missing.
#8519

is there anyone who can assist me?

Thanks!

[conradogarciaberrotaran]

Hi @expobrain! I saw your contribution creating the generic _SecretType. Would you be interested in helping out?

[expobrain]

@conradogarciaberrotaran sure! I made this PR #3717 back in the days of Pydantic 1.x to be able to freely extend the secret type to beyond the ones provided by Pydantic.

I reckon we can re-apply the same concept again.