feat: let an API, resource or operation supply a request decoder - #23
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Every built-in decoder was `request.json()`, so a service that takes `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` on the way in could not be simulated at all. A form body threw a `SyntaxError` out of the decode step and reached the caller as a network error. AGENTS.md already named this as wanted: "Stripe and others take form-encoded request bodies and answer with JSON, and the pipeline should have room for that without a redesign." `decode` is now a property on `SimApiProps`, `RestResourceProps`, `RestResourceOperationConfiguration` and `ResourceOperationProps`. The closest one wins, which is how middleware already composes, and JSON stays the default for anyone who sets nothing. `list`, `get` and `delete` are sent no body, and they inherit no decoder. There would be nothing there for it to read. One configured on them directly is still honoured, for the APIs that do send a body with a `DELETE`. Silently ignoring it would be worse than either. `RequestDecoder` returns `unknown` rather than a union with `Promise<unknown>`. Oxlint is right that `unknown` absorbs the promise, and the pipeline awaits the result either way. This is the first of the blocks a downstream Stripe simulation needs. The simulation itself stays downstream, as AGENTS.md requires.
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In `@src/http/rest-resource-operations.ts`:
- Around line 45-47: Update emptyDecoder so configured decoders are wrapped with
decodeWhenPresent before being returned, while retaining decodeEmpty as the
fallback when no decoder is configured. This ensures bodyless operations safely
reach their handlers without invoking a decoder against a null Request.body.
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| configuration: RestResourceOperationConfiguration | undefined, | ||
| ): RequestDecoder => configuration?.decode ?? decodeEmpty; |
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Guard configured decoders for bodyless operations.
runHttpOperation always calls operation.decode. emptyDecoder passes a configured list, get, or delete decoder unchanged, so a decoder such as request => request.json() can reject when Request.body is null and prevent the handler from returning 204. Wrap configured decoders with decodeWhenPresent, while keeping decodeEmpty as the fallback.
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In `@src/http/rest-resource-operations.ts` around lines 45 - 47, Update
emptyDecoder so configured decoders are wrapped with decodeWhenPresent before
being returned, while retaining decodeEmpty as the fallback when no decoder is
configured. This ensures bodyless operations safely reach their handlers without
invoking a decoder against a null Request.body.
`operations: { delete: { decode: decodeJson } }` is a configuration the docs
endorse, for the services that do send a body with a `DELETE`. An ordinary
bodyless `DELETE` to it answered `SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input`,
escaping through `controller.errorWith` as a client-side network error.
`emptyDecoder` now wraps whatever it returns in `decodeWhenPresent`, so `list`,
`get` and `delete` decode when a body arrived and hand the handler `undefined`
when none did. That is the rule resource operations already followed, and
`decodeWhenPresent` moves from `resource-operation.ts` to `request-decoder.ts`
now that two modules want it.
`create` and `update` are deliberately unchanged. A `POST` with no body is a
malformed create, and its decoder still runs and still fails loudly, which is
what `api.test.ts` pins for a malformed JSON body.
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Valid finding, and it reproduced. Fixed in 2287e12.
I wrote the failing test before the fix and confirmed it goes red without it.
Two tests added, and the docs table now has a "Runs" column saying which operations decode only when a body arrives. The three PRs stacked above this one have been rebased and force-pushed; each is |
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Every built-in decoder was
request.json(), so a service that takesapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedon the way in could not be simulated at all. A form body threw aSyntaxErrorout of the decode step and reached the caller as a client-side network error, whichsrc/api.test.tspins today under "lets codec and transformation failures stay loud".AGENTS.mdalready names this as wanted:What this adds
decodeis a property onSimApiProps(new),RestResourceProps,RestResourceOperationConfigurationandResourceOperationProps. The closest one wins, which is howmiddleware already composes, and JSON stays the default for anyone who sets nothing.
RequestDecoderanddecodeJsonare exported. Encoding is untouched: the pipeline sentence aboveframes this as a request-body concern, and every service this is for answers with JSON already.
The one decision worth arguing about
list,getanddeleteare sent no body, and they inherit no decoder from the resource or theAPI. There would be nothing there for it to read, and inheriting one would mean every
GETtried toparse a body it was never given.
One configured on those operations directly is still honoured, for the APIs that do send a body with
a
DELETE. The alternative was to ignore it, which would be a silent surprise, or to throw, whichwould forbid something real.
Notes
RequestDecoderreturnsunknownrather thanPromise<unknown> | unknown. Oxlint'sno-redundant-type-constituentsis right thatunknownabsorbs the promise, and the pipeline awaitsthe result either way.
Seven cases in
src/http/request-decoder.test.ts, and the existing 49 pass unchanged.This is the first of four blocks a downstream Stripe simulation needs. The simulation itself stays
downstream, as
AGENTS.mdrequires.Summary by CodeRabbit
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