Add S.formData codec for form submission handling - #417
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`S.formData.with(S.to, objectSchema)` reads a form submission into a typed
object and, reversed, builds the `FormData` a fetch body sends — the same
integration `S.json`/`S.jsonString` have. A field reads its entry through a
`string` stage so the env coercions apply ("42" -> 42, enums, dates, urls),
`S.file`/`S.blob` take the entry as it is, `S.array` is `getAll`, and a
nested value travels as a `S.jsonString` field. Encoding is
`new FormData()` plus one `append` per field, arrays as repeated keys.
An empty text input reads as absent: `S.optional` gets `undefined`, a
default applies, and a required string rejects it unless the field says
`S.minLength(0)`. To make that observable, a string's `minLength(0)` is now
recorded as a bound with no check behind it (it was a no-op), which is why
`string-minLength-zero` now emits `minLength: 0`.
The optional read converts the present arm on its own instead of going
through the dict-to-object missing-key encoder: the union rules reject
`string -> string | undefined` and otherwise dispatch on the text
"undefined". That pre-existing gap in the env pattern is pinned by
`dict-to-object-optional-string`. `S.string.with(S.to, S.union(["a", "b"]))`
crashed at creation on a checked val with no `prev`; B_merge now checks such
a val against itself, pinned by `codec-string-enum`.
Metrics: `formData` ships at 8322 gz; the B_merge guard and the minLength
change cost 6 to 30 bytes on existing exports (total 35272 -> 36213, of
which the new export is the rest).
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A required boolean field can only be a checkbox, so S.formData reads it the way one submits: absent or empty is false, "on" (or a hidden input's "true"/"false") is a value, anything else fails. Encoding writes "on" or no entry. S.optional(S.boolean) keeps the tri-state. Drops the S.accepted idea, which the target already says. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019MV3tZ1SDuA28zBrbkbopA
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds ChangesFormData codec
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new FormData codec may fail when decoding file fields because generated strict-mode code can reference an undeclared variable. This should be corrected before merge to keep file-upload form handling reliable. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant RequestHandler
participant S_formData
participant FormData
RequestHandler->>S_formData: decode request FormData
S_formData->>FormData: read fields with get or getAll
FormData-->>S_formData: return entries
S_formData-->>RequestHandler: return validated object
RequestHandler->>S_formData: encode object
S_formData->>FormData: append converted fields
FormData-->>RequestHandler: return FormData body
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Conflicts were CONTRIBUTING.md's harness-suggestion list (main shipped the real ones and trimmed it, so the FormData note folds into the surviving Blob/File bullet) and bundleSize.yaml (regenerated). Adapts to two API changes on main: error paths are arrays now (#405), so the field val builds `pathConcat(input.path, [key])` where `pathFromInlinedLocation` is gone, and every formData golden re-derives with the new dot-path display. No semantic drift in any golden. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019MV3tZ1SDuA28zBrbkbopA
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new: codec-formdata-object-array · parse · accepts ×3, codec-formdata-object-array · parse · rejects ×3, codec-formdata-object-array · decode · accepts, codec-formdata-object-array · encode · rejects, codec-formdata-object-checkbox · parse · accepts ×7, codec-formdata-object-checkbox · parse · rejects ×3, codec-formdata-object-checkbox · decode · accepts, codec-formdata-object-checkbox · encode · rejects, codec-formdata-object-enum · parse · accepts ×3, codec-formdata-object-enum · parse · rejects ×2, codec-formdata-object-enum · decode · accepts, codec-formdata-object-enum · encode · rejects, codec-formdata-object-file · parse · rejects ×4, codec-formdata-object-file · decode · rejects, codec-formdata-object-file · encode · rejects, codec-formdata-object-jsonstring · parse · accepts, codec-formdata-object-jsonstring · parse · rejects ×3, codec-formdata-object-jsonstring · decode · accepts, codec-formdata-object-jsonstring · encode · rejects, codec-formdata-object-optional · parse · accepts ×3, codec-formdata-object-optional · parse · rejects ×4, codec-formdata-object-optional · decode · accepts, codec-formdata-object-optional · encode · rejects, codec-formdata-object · parse · accepts, codec-formdata-object · parse · rejects ×8, codec-formdata-object · decode · accepts, codec-formdata-object · decode · rejects, codec-formdata-object · encode · rejects, codec-formdata-union-unsupported · encode · rejects, codec-string-enum · parse · accepts ×2, codec-string-enum · parse · rejects ×2, codec-string-enum · decode · accepts, codec-string-enum · decode · rejects |
Eight bugs, each with the spec or test that reproduces it: - `S.array(S.file)` could not decode — a multi-file input. The "takes the entry" question was asked of the array, so its items were wrapped in a string stage. It is the item's question. - `S.optional(S.boolean, false)` — the natural spelling of "checkbox, default unchecked" — broke its own round trip: the encode wrote "on" and the decode only read "true"/"false". A boolean is a checkbox however it is wrapped now. - Encoding `S.array(S.optional(x))` or `S.array(S.array(x))` emitted code that threw ReferenceError: the item's `let` was materialized after the merge that should have carried it, so the loop body read an undeclared name. The append code is built before the merge now. - `S.strict` was ignored; unknown form keys passed where every other object codec raises. It emits the key check. - `S.optional(S.array(x), default)` dropped its default and could never produce `undefined`: `getAll` always won. An empty read folds into absent. - A `.to` on a field whose value the codec assembles itself (a checkbox, any optional) was silently skipped, so the output lied about its type. Those readers hand the parse loop a value that still owes the conversion. - The `S.minLength(0)` marker is gone (see below), which takes with it the `0 <= string.length <= 3` rendering regression and the unsatisfiable `S.string.with(S.maxLength, 0)` field. The empty entry is derived from the target instead of marked on the schema. `""` reads as absent only for an optional field — the one case where the entry carries no value, and what makes a default apply. A required field is handed `""` unchanged, so `S.string` accepts it, `S.nonEmpty` rejects it in its own words, and `S.number` gives main's blank-string message. That reverts refinements.ts entirely: no JSON Schema keyword changes for anyone, and no round trip through `fromJSONSchema` to lose. A checkbox encode now writes `"false"` rather than omitting an unchecked box. A default resolves before the encode sees the field, so omitting handed that default back on the way in and lost the value. `tests/formData_test.ts` holds what the spec format cannot: a golden cannot represent a `FormData`, so every `codec-formdata-*` encode block carries only its failures and the produced entries are asserted there. Only the runtime-missing test is a packaging case; the rest are values. Its `withoutGlobal` helper is shared with `file_test.ts` and runs its routes in one child process rather than five. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019MV3tZ1SDuA28zBrbkbopA
…ission `tests/formDataBrowser_test.ts` asserts against an entry list captured from headless Chromium, not from memory: the form that produced it is in the file, and every row is annotated with the step of the HTML Standard's "constructing the entry list" (§4.10.22.4) that explains it. It confirms what the codec already did — an empty text input is an entry with "" and not an absence, nothing is trimmed, a checked box with no value attribute sends "on", an unchecked or disabled control sends nothing, a multi-select sends one entry per option — and caught two things it got wrong. Fixed: a file input with nothing chosen still submits, as "a new File object with an empty name, application/octet-stream as type, and an empty body". We handed that sentinel over as a real upload, so `S.optional(S.file)` produced a zero-byte File instead of `undefined` and a required field accepted one. conform's `coerceFile` and zod-form-data's `zfd.file` special-case the same value. Known and pinned, not fixed: `S.strict` trips on `_charset_`, which the browser fills in by itself — as it does `dirname` and an image button's `name.x`/`name.y`. Strict cannot mean "no other entries" against a real submission. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019MV3tZ1SDuA28zBrbkbopA
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| const entryVar = B_varWithoutAllocation(input.g); | ||
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| `${readVar}=(${entryVar}=${inputVar}.get(${keyText}))&&${entryVar}.name===""&&!${entryVar}.size?void 0:${entryVar}??void 0`, | ||
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Declare entryVar before using it.
B_varWithoutAllocation only returns a name, while B_hoistDecl emits let for the declarations it receives. This path declares readVar but assigns to undeclared entryVar. Strict-mode generated code can throw ReferenceError; non-strict code can create an unintended global. Add entryVar to the hoisted declarations.
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In `@packages/sury/src/advanced/formData.ts` around lines 360 - 364, Update the
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An unchecked checkbox sends nothing — that is the whole of what the entry list says about `false` — so an encode writes nothing rather than "false". `S.optional(S.boolean)` keeps writing it: absent and unchecked are the same wire, so a tri-state needs the third value spelled out. The cost is that `S.optional(S.boolean, true)` cannot round-trip, since a missing checkbox entry means unchecked and that default says otherwise. Pinned as a test that documents it rather than worked around. Reading now takes "on", "true" and "1" as checked and "false" and "0" as unchecked, matching VineJS's accepted set. Anything else stays an error: a checkbox carrying another `value` is a string the schema should name, not a boolean for the codec to guess at. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019MV3tZ1SDuA28zBrbkbopA
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avatarbefore using it in the example.The TypeScript example passes the undeclared shorthand property
avatar. A reader who copies this code gets an undeclared-identifier error. Define aFilevalue or replace the shorthand with an inlineFileconstruction.Proposed fix
- S.encoder(signup)({ name: "Ann", age: 42, role: "user", tags: ["a"], avatar, prefs: { theme: "dark" } }); + S.encoder(signup)({ + name: "Ann", + age: 42, + role: "user", + tags: ["a"], + avatar: new File(["avatar"], "avatar.txt"), + prefs: { theme: "dark" }, + });🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Adds
S.formData— a new codec for validating and convertingFormDataobjects, enabling a single schema to serve both request handlers andfetchrequest bodies.Summary
S.formDatavalidates form submissions by reading entries as text through the same string coercions thatS.record(S.string)uses, with special handling for files, blobs, arrays, and booleans. Convert it to an object schema withS.toto get a bidirectional codec: decoding parses form entries into typed values, encoding builds aFormDatafrom an object.Key changes
New module
packages/sury/src/advanced/formData.ts(335 lines):getAll(), files/blobs pass through as-is, everything else coerces through stringFormDatawith oneappend()per fieldS.to)Type definitions in
packages/sury/index.d.ts:FormDatatype that uses the runtime global or provides a structural stand-informDataschema andFormDataTtype aliasReScript binding in
packages/sury/src/S.res:formDataexternal binding for ReScript consumersExport in
packages/sury/src/entry.ts:formDatafrom the new moduleSpec coverage with 8 new spec files:
formdata.yaml— basic FormData validationcodec-formdata-object.yaml— object with mixed field typescodec-formdata-object-checkbox.yaml— required and optional booleanscodec-formdata-object-optional.yaml— optional fields with defaults and empty-string rulescodec-formdata-object-array.yaml— repeated keys as arrayscodec-formdata-object-enum.yaml— union literalscodec-formdata-object-file.yaml— file and blob fieldscodec-formdata-object-jsonstring.yaml— nested JSON documentscodec-formdata-union-unsupported.yaml— error on bare unionscodec-formdata-nested-unsupported.yaml— error on nested objectscodec-string-enum.yaml— string-to-union coercion (supporting form enums)dict-to-object-optional-string.yaml— optional field handling in dict-to-objectDocumentation:
FormDatasection todocs/js-usage.mdwith examplesformDatasection todocs/rescript-usage.mdCONTENT_CODEC_SPEC.mdto list FormData as a carrier formatCONTRIBUTING.mdwith spec harness guidance for FormDatapackages/sury/README.mdto include FormData in wire formats listIDEAS.mdto mark FormData as completedTest coverage in
packages/sury/tests/formData_test.ts:S.jsonStringImplementation details:
minLength(0)or literal""https://claude.ai/code/session_019MV3tZ1SDuA28zBrbkbopA
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New Features
S.formDatafor validating, decoding, and encoding form submissions.Bug Fixes
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