feat(schemas): allow object-or-union payloads in event definitions - #578
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enrichMessageSchemaWithBase / enrichMessageSchemaWithBaseStrict previously constrained the payload schema to a ZodObject, which prevented modelling an event whose payload is a union of object variants (e.g. a single-item / multi-item shape). Relax the constraint to EventPayloadSchema (z.ZodType<Record<string, unknown>>), so a plain object schema and a union of object schemas are both accepted, while a bare scalar payload (z.string(), etc.) stays rejected. CommonEventDefinition's sentinel payload is widened the same way so union-payload events still satisfy it. Adds spec coverage: union payload accepted (with real parse) and scalar rejected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a shared object-shaped ChangesEvent Payload Support
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The schema API now supports object-shaped unions and transforms, but an any-input transform can still admit scalar publisher payloads despite the object-only contract. This should be corrected before release; the upgrade documentation should also describe supported object-to-object transforms. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Reviewed the diff for correctness. Notes inline, plus one on an unchanged file that cannot be anchored.
The main issue is that EventPayloadSchema constrains only the output side of the schema, which widens the publisher payload input type to unknown and lets z.any() and scalar-input transforms through. Everything else I probed (unions, .brand(), .partial(), .pick(), .catchall(), strictObject, looseObject, discriminatedUnion, intersection, arrays and bare scalars) behaves as intended, and the repo typechecks clean end to end.
packages/schemas/lib/events/baseEventSchemas.ts:108 (not in this diff, so no inline anchor)
enrichEventSchemaWithBase is the sibling of the helper being relaxed and is re-exported from lib/index.ts, but it and its local ReturnType<T, Y, Z> (line 92) still require T extends ZodObject<Y>.
After this change a union payload compiles through enrichMessageSchemaWithBase and fails to compile through enrichEventSchemaWithBase, with nothing to hint that the other entry point accepts it. Worth relaxing both, or noting the asymmetry.
| const consumerSchema = CONSUMER_BASE_EVENT_SCHEMA.extend({ | ||
| metadata: MetadataObjectSchema, | ||
| payload: z.looseObject({}), | ||
| payload: z.looseObject({}) as EventPayloadSchema, |
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z.ZodType<Output> leaves its second parameter (Input) at the default unknown, so EventPayloadSchema constrains only the output side. Casting the sentinel payload to it makes z.input<typeof publisherSchema>['payload'] resolve to unknown, where on main it was { [k: string]: unknown }.
Verified A/B with this probe dropped into packages/schemas/lib:
declare function publishGeneric<E extends CommonEventDefinition>(
def: E,
data: CommonEventDefinitionPublisherSchemaType<E>,
): void
declare const someDef: CommonEventDefinition
publishGeneric(someDef, {
type: 'anything',
payload: 'this-is-not-an-object',
metadata: { schemaVersion: '1', producedBy: 'a', originatedFrom: 'a', correlationId: 'c' },
})On main this is error TS2322: Type 'string' is not assignable to type '{ [x: string]: unknown; }'. On this branch it compiles clean. So any helper, or an AbstractPublisherManager / DomainEventEmitter wrapper, written generically over CommonEventDefinition rather than over a concrete event union silently loses the object-payload guarantee. The consumer side is unaffected: z.output payload is still Record<string, unknown>.
Pinning the input parameter fixes it:
export type EventPayloadSchema = z.ZodType<Record<string, unknown>, Record<string, unknown>>I checked that this two-parameter form still accepts the new union payload, plain objects, z.looseObject, z.strictObject, z.discriminatedUnion, z.intersection, .brand(), .partial(), .pick() and .catchall(), and still rejects z.string() and z.array(...).
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Fixed — EventPayloadSchema now pins both parameters: z.ZodType<Record<string, unknown>, Record<string, unknown>>, so z.input<publisherSchema>["payload"] stays object-typed. (67eb13e)
| * Defined via the output type (not `ZodObject | ZodUnion`) so `.extend` does not distribute | ||
| * over a type-level union and collapse it back to a plain object. | ||
| */ | ||
| export type EventPayloadSchema = z.ZodType<Record<string, unknown>> |
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Because the constraint bounds only the output type, two things that were compile errors before now pass:
// payload resolves to `any` for this event, so every handler and publisher loses payload checking
enrichMessageSchemaWithBase('any', z.any())
// the input side is unconstrained, so a scalar-input payload is accepted
const pre = enrichMessageSchemaWithBase(
'pre',
z.preprocess((v) => ({ a: String(v) }), z.object({ a: z.string() })),
)
// z.input<typeof pre.publisherSchema>['payload'] is `number`, so `payload: 42` typechecksz.string().transform((s) => ({ a: s })) behaves the same way. Both compile on this branch and both were rejected on main.
The description's "a bare scalar payload is still rejected" holds only for the literal z.string() / z.number() form the new test covers. Pinning the input parameter (see the comment on line 24) closes the transform/preprocess hole. z.any() would need an explicit exclusion if that case matters.
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Pinning the input parameter closes the scalar-input transform/preprocess hole. z.any() is now rejected explicitly: a RejectAnyPayload<T> guard (IsAny<z.output<T>>) collapses the payload parameter to never. (1fee54a)
| Y extends ZodRawShape, | ||
| Z extends string, | ||
| >(type: Z, payloadSchema: T, schemaMetadata: SchemaMetadata): ReturnType<T, Y, Z> { | ||
| export function enrichMessageSchemaWithBaseStrict<T extends EventPayloadSchema, Z extends string>( |
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Dropping Y extends ZodRawShape changes the explicit type-argument arity of three exported functions from 3 to 2: enrichMessageSchemaWithBaseStrict here, enrichMessageSchemaWithBase (line 89) and getMessageType (line 113).
Verified: enrichMessageSchemaWithBase<typeof s, { a: z.ZodString }, 'x'>('x', s) no longer compiles on this branch, while enrichMessageSchemaWithBase<typeof s, 'x'>('x', s) does. Inference-only call sites are fine (I typechecked packages/{schemas,core,sns,sqs,amqp,outbox-core,kafka,metrics} clean against this branch), but downstream code passing explicit type args breaks.
The PR carries the patch label and publish.yml derives the version bump from it, so this would ship as a patch with no UPGRADING.md entry. A minor bump plus a short migration note looks warranted.
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Agreed — the PR is relabeled minor and an UPGRADING.md entry documents the type-argument arity change (3 → 2; inference call sites are unaffected). (7ff89f5)
| expectTypeOf(myEvents.myEvent).toExtend<SnsAwareEventDefinition>() | ||
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| it('rejects a non-object payload schema', () => { |
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This calls enrichMessageSchemaWithBase('user.updated', z.string()) under @ts-expect-error with no expect, so at runtime it asserts nothing while reading as a runtime test.
It also pins only the one case the new constraint still catches. It would not have caught z.any() as a payload, a scalar-input .transform() / z.preprocess() payload, or the widening of z.input<publisherSchema>['payload'] to unknown, all of which this branch admits. expectTypeOf cases for those would make the guard match the claim in the description.
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Reworked. Type-level guards now live in *.types.spec.ts (the only files vitest type-checks), covering object/union accepted, scalar rejected, and RejectAnyPayload<any> → never — each verified to fail when the fix is reverted. Runtime .spec.ts files assert real parse behaviour. (ec2c846)
…d guarantee EventPayloadSchema left the input type parameter of z.ZodType at its default `unknown`, so z.input<publisherSchema>['payload'] widened to `unknown` for code written generically over CommonEventDefinition, dropping the object-payload guarantee on the publish side and letting scalar-input transforms through. Pin both parameters: z.ZodType<Record<string, unknown>, Record<string, unknown>>. Still accepts unions of objects, plain/loose/strict/discriminated objects, intersection, brand/partial/pick/catchall; still rejects bare scalars and arrays. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
z.any() satisfies EventPayloadSchema because `any` is assignable to Record<string, unknown>, yet it silently disables payload type-checking for every handler and publisher of the event. Add an IsAny<T> guard and intersect the payload parameter with RejectAnyPayload<T> in enrichMessageSchemaWithBase / enrichMessageSchemaWithBaseStrict, collapsing the parameter to `never` for an `any`-output schema while leaving every real payload (objects, unions of objects, transforms to objects) untouched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…elpers enrichEventSchemaWithBase (the sibling of enrichMessageSchemaWithBase, re-exported from the package root) still constrained its payload to ZodObject<Y>, so a union payload compiled through the message helper but not the event helper. Centralise the shared type helpers (EventPayloadSchema, IsAny, RejectAnyPayload) in baseEventSchemas.ts (the foundational module, no import cycle) and consume them from eventTypes.ts and baseMessageSchemas.ts. Relax enrichEventSchemaWithBase and its ReturnType to EventPayloadSchema + RejectAnyPayload, so all three enrich helpers now share the same object-or-union-of-objects constraint and reject `any`. Adds baseEventSchemas.spec.ts covering plain-object and union payloads accepted, scalar and `any` payloads rejected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@packages/schemas/lib/events/baseEventSchemas.ts`:
- Around line 108-109: Update RejectAnyPayload to reject schemas when either
z.input<T> or z.output<T> resolves to any, preserving the existing never/unknown
behavior otherwise. Add a type-level regression test covering a
z.any().transform(() => ({ value: 'x' })) schema and verify scalar publisher
payloads are rejected.
In `@UPGRADING.md`:
- Around line 10-12: Update the EventPayloadSchema documentation to state that
object-to-object transforms are also accepted, alongside object schemas and
unions of object schemas, while retaining the rejection of bare scalars and
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| export type RejectAnyPayload<T extends EventPayloadSchema> = | ||
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Reject payload schemas with any input.
z.any().transform(() => ({ value: 'x' })) has any input and object output, so it satisfies EventPayloadSchema. RejectAnyPayload checks only z.output<T>, so publisher payloads remain unconstrained and scalar values are accepted.
Reject any in z.input<T> as well. Add a type-level regression test for this transform.
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| export type RejectAnyPayload<T extends EventPayloadSchema> = | |
| IsAny<z.output<T>> extends true ? never : unknown | |
| export type RejectAnyPayload<T extends EventPayloadSchema> = | |
| IsAny<z.input<T>> extends true | |
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In `@packages/schemas/lib/events/baseEventSchemas.ts` around lines 108 - 109,
Update RejectAnyPayload to reject schemas when either z.input<T> or z.output<T>
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| any `EventPayloadSchema` — an object schema **or** a union of object schemas — while still | ||
| rejecting bare scalars (`z.string()`) and `z.any()`. This lets an event model a payload that is | ||
| either a single item or a batch of items. |
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Document object-to-object transform support.
EventPayloadSchema also accepts transforms with object-shaped input and object output. The current text describes only object schemas and unions. Update this section so users do not treat supported object-to-object transforms as invalid payload schemas.
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In `@UPGRADING.md` around lines 10 - 12, Update the EventPayloadSchema
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enrichMessageSchemaWithBase/enrichMessageSchemaWithBaseStrictconstrained the payload schema to aZodObject, so an event payload could not be modelled as a union of object variants (e.g. a single-item / multi-item shape).This relaxes the constraint to a new
EventPayloadSchema = z.ZodType<Record<string, unknown>>:z.string(),z.number(), …) — still rejectedCommonEventDefinition's sentinel payload is widened the same way so union-payload events still satisfy it. Defining the type via the output (Record<string, unknown>) rather thanZodObject | ZodUnionavoids.extenddistributing over a type-level union and collapsing it back to a plain object.Why
Enables events that carry either one item or many (union of the current single shape and an array-of-items shape) without abandoning the object-based payload guarantee.
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