Cloud Data Loss Prevention (Cloud DLP) is now a part of Sensitive Data Protection. The API name remains the same: Cloud Data Loss Prevention API (DLP API). For information about the services that make up Sensitive Data Protection, seeSensitive Data Protection overview.
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This code sample shows how to extract details from inspection findings that are
saved in Protobuf text format. Do this task if yousaved your inspection
findings to
Cloud Storage.
This example converts the exportedSaveToGcsFindingsOutputobject
into a human-readable format. You can then use the output to analyze individual
inspection findings.
importcom.google.privacy.dlp.v2.Finding;importcom.google.privacy.dlp.v2.SaveToGcsFindingsOutput;importcom.google.protobuf.ByteString;importcom.google.protobuf.TextFormat;importjava.io.FileInputStream;importjava.io.IOException;importjava.io.InputStreamReader;importjava.io.Reader;importjava.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;publicclassProcessInspectFindingsSavedToGcs{publicstaticvoidmain(String[]args)throwsException{// TODO(developer): Replace these variables before running the sample.StringinputPath="src/test/resources/save_to_gcs_findings.txt";processFindingsGcsFile(inputPath);}// Processes a file containing findings from a DLP inspect job.publicstaticvoidprocessFindingsGcsFile(StringinputPath)throwsIOException{SaveToGcsFindingsOutput.Builderbuilder=SaveToGcsFindingsOutput.newBuilder();try(Readerreader=newInputStreamReader(newFileInputStream(inputPath),StandardCharsets.UTF_8)){TextFormat.merge(reader,builder);}SaveToGcsFindingsOutputoutput=builder.build();// Parse the converted proto and process resultsSystem.out.println("Findings: "+output.getFindingsCount());for(Findingf:output.getFindingsList()){System.out.println("\tInfo type: "+f.getInfoType().getName());System.out.println("\tLikelihood: "+f.getLikelihood());}}}
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