Protecting Parameters in Groovy/Grails

Section 11.2 of the Grails Framework Reference Docs talks about how to protect parameters in a Groovy/Grails app. On my current project, on public facing pages, we’ve been obscuring ids using the base64 codec that comes with grails. Here is a quick example:

def encodedString = "test".encodeAsBase64()

println encodedString

//build your decoded string from the byte array returned from the decode method.
def decodedString = new String(encodedString.decodeBase64())

println decodedString

Obscure ids and keep those urls hard to guess!