Issue #20396 has been updated by shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe).
Why not just stop dumping string values? I'm proposing this because I see no reason
to keep them. It is practically proven unnecessary; all non-ASCII bits are already
silently dropped and no one complains. I prefer simple API for ObjectSpace.dump_all. We
could add options later, if we find any use cases.
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Feature #20396: ObjectSpace.dump_all(string_value: false): skip dumping the String
contents
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/20396#change-107946
* Author: byroot (Jean Boussier)
* Status: Open
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`ObjectSpace.dump_all` is a very useful method to debug memory leaks and such, hence is
frequently needed in production. But since all the 7bit strings content is included in the
dump, it incur the risk of leaking personal data, or secrets.
Also, in many case the strings content isn't that helpful and is just making the dump
much bigger for no good reason. And only pure-ASCII strings are dumped this way, which
means all the tools that process these dumps should already be compatible with a dump
without any string content.
### Feature
I propose to add another optional parameter to `dump_all`: `string_value: false`. When
passed, no String content is ever dumped regardless of its coderange.
Implementation:
https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/10382
cc @zzak
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