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Summary

  • PR-P3-A1: Add installable modules/audit with append-only FieldChange (Kind = field/create/unlink/action:*), Append / SearchByRecord, and hard-reject Update/Delete.
  • PR-P3-A2: Add @Field({ tracking: true }) metadata and ORM Write hooks (create/update/delete) that dial audit.FieldChange only; fail-closed when tracking is configured but Append is unavailable; skip recursion on audit.FieldChange.

Test plan

  • ./choysum test typecheck audit
  • ./choysum test unit audit --be
  • ./choysum test unit core --be --pattern 'Field decorator accepts tracking|recordFieldTrackingEvents'
  • ./choysum install audit on a clean DB (optional smoke; local DB may hit unrelated auth migrate issues)
  • Manual: mark a business field tracking: true, write a row, confirm FieldChange rows via SearchByRecord

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Description

  • Add installable modules/audit with append-only FieldChange model

  • Extend @Field decorator with tracking metadata option

  • Hook ORM writes to record tracked field changes

  • Cover field tracking and audit model with TypeScript unit tests


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Relevant files
Configuration changes
1 files
package.json
Define module manifest and metadata for audit module         
+25/-0   
Enhancement
11 files
index.ts
Export module initialization entrypoint for audit               
+7/-0     
i18n.ts
Configure audit service translation binder                             
+9/-0     
index.ts
Re-export service models and errors                                           
+5/-0     
field_change.ts
Implement append-only `FieldChange` model and APIs             
+255/-0 
index.ts
Re-export `FieldChange` model and types                                   
+10/-0   
field.ts
Add `tracking` option to `@Field` decorator                           
+7/-0     
field.ts
Add `tracking` property to `FieldMetadata` interface         
+9/-0     
field_tracking.ts
Implement write-path field tracking recorder                         
+177/-0 
model_create.ts
Trigger field tracking on create operations                           
+26/-6   
model_delete.ts
Trigger field tracking on delete operations                           
+10/-0   
model_update.ts
Trigger field tracking on update operations                           
+11/-1   
Error handling
1 files
error.ts
Define audit domain error codes and handlers                         
+33/-0   
Tests
3 files
field_change.test.ts
Add unit tests for `FieldChange` append-only behavior       
+154/-0 
field.test.ts
Add unit tests for `@Field` tracking flag option                 
+25/-0   
field_tracking.test.ts
Add unit tests for `recordFieldTrackingEvents`                     
+103/-0 

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added audit history for tracked scalar field changes during record creation, updates, and deletion.
    • Records include previous and new values, actors, timestamps, company, and request context.
    • Added searchable, append-only audit records with validation for supported change types.
    • Added a field configuration option to enable change tracking.
  • Reliability

    • Audit write failures prevent associated record changes from completing.
    • Improved handling of invalid dates and timezone conversions, returning controlled results without unexpected errors.

- Add modules/audit with append-only FieldChange, Kind validation, and SearchByRecord.

- Wire @field({ tracking: true }) create/update/delete writes to dial audit.FieldChange fail-closed.

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The pull request adds an append-only audit service, tracking metadata for ORM fields, event recording across create, update, and delete operations, and defensive datetime handling for invalid inputs.

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Audit field tracking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Audit service contract
modules/audit/index.ts, modules/audit/package.json, modules/audit/service/*
Adds the audit package, service exports, audit-specific errors, translation helpers, and public model exports.
FieldChange persistence and validation
modules/audit/service/models/field_change.ts, modules/audit/service/tests/field_change.test.ts
Adds append-only FieldChange records, validation, request-context attribution, record search, and rejection of update and delete operations.
Tracking metadata and event processing
modules/core/service/orm/decorator/field.ts, modules/core/service/orm/decorator/field.test.ts, modules/core/service/orm/metadata/field.ts, modules/core/service/orm/model/field_tracking.ts, modules/core/service/orm/model/field_tracking.test.ts
Adds the tracking field option and records create, update, and unlink events for tracked scalar fields.
Create, update, and delete integration
modules/core/service/orm/model/model_create.ts, modules/core/service/orm/model/model_update.ts, modules/core/service/orm/model/model_delete.ts
Connects field-tracking event recording to single and bulk creates, updates, and deletes. Tracking errors propagate through these flows.
Defensive datetime conversion
modules/web/web/utils/datetime.ts, modules/web/web/utils/datetime.test.ts
Handles invalid dates, non-finite values, malformed timestamps, and timezone conversion errors with controlled results.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 51470

This PR adds append-only audit records and write-path field tracking, but audit failures may still leave business changes committed without corresponding audit records, while unsupported tracked field types may be silently skipped; the test suite also has a TypeScript call-signature error. Merge should wait for these correctness and readiness issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ORMModel
  participant recordFieldTrackingEvents
  participant FieldChange
  participant AuditStorage

  ORMModel->>recordFieldTrackingEvents: Submit create, update, or delete event
  recordFieldTrackingEvents->>FieldChange: Append create, field, or unlink event
  FieldChange->>AuditStorage: Persist FieldChange row
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 const correlation = resolveCorrelation();
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In `@modules/audit/service/models/field_change.ts`:
- Around line 237-253: Update the append-only overrides Update, UpdateById,
Delete, and DeleteById in FieldChange to match the corresponding BaseModel
parameter lists, accepting and ignoring the inherited ORM arguments while
continuing to throw the APPEND_ONLY audit error.
- Around line 160-191: Enforce valid field-change kinds in the model-level
creation path, not only in Append: override FieldChange.Create with the
compatible ORM signature or add equivalent validation so direct Create calls
also invoke assertFieldChangeKind and reject invalid values such as “login”. Add
a test covering direct creation with an invalid Kind.

Apply the same fix in `@modules/audit/service/models/field_change.ts` around lines
171 - 190.

In `@modules/core/service/orm/decorator/field.ts`:
- Around line 265-268: Reject tracking: true in the field decorator for
OneToMany, ManyToMany, and properties before deriving trackingFlag, while
preserving the existing boolean validation. In
modules/core/service/orm/model/field_tracking.ts lines 58-63, keep the
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it already reflects the same unsupported types.

In `@modules/core/service/orm/model/field_tracking.ts`:
- Around line 117-126: Update the company ID derivation around the companyId
IIFE to read the model metadata’s configured companyField, falling back to
CompanyId when unset, and use that field when checking event.afterEntity and
event.beforeEntity. Ensure the resolved company field is included in both update
and delete audit snapshots, while preserving the active-company fallback.
- Around line 71-75: Update the JSON serialization fallback in the
field-tracking serialization block to normalize an undefined result by using the
existing String(null) contract expected by Append; preserve the catch fallback
for values that throw during JSON.stringify.

In `@modules/core/service/orm/model/model_create.ts`:
- Around line 413-421: Make the business write and recordFieldTrackingEvents
append share one transaction so audit failure rolls back the operation. In
modules/core/service/orm/model/model_create.ts:413-421, include the create audit
append in the row-persistence transaction; at 495-506, use that same transaction
for the batch and every audit append. Apply the equivalent transaction-scoped
append for each deletion in modules/core/service/orm/model/model_delete.ts:52-59
and each update in modules/core/service/orm/model/model_update.ts:593-600.
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buke and others added 2 commits August 17, 2026 14:49
- Enforce Kind on Create/CreateMany and derive ActorUid from request identity only.

- Align append-only overrides with BaseModel signatures; reject unsupported tracking field types; fix companyField attribution and JSON undefined serialization.

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- Guard Invalid Date toISOString and dayjs.tz RangeError so bogus inputs return null/empty instead of throwing on CI Node/ICU builds.

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In `@modules/audit/service/models/field_change.ts`:
- Around line 248-268: Update the Create and CreateMany overrides to derive
ActorUid from the current request identity instead of accepting caller-supplied
values, or reject these direct creation paths so only Append persists audit
rows. Preserve Kind validation and add coverage for both methods confirming a
supplied ActorUid cannot override the request identity.
- Around line 248-268: Update Create and CreateMany to persist the normalized
Kind produced by the field-change kind validation, rather than the original
whitespace-padded value. Apply this to the single input and every row before
delegating to BaseModel.Create or BaseModel.CreateMany, while preserving
rejection of invalid kinds; add coverage for padded Kind values.
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- Force ActorUid from request identity in Create/CreateMany so callers cannot forge append-only actors.

- Persist trimmed Kind after validation so whitespace-padded values do not escape the declared kind set.

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- Around line 39-45: Update assertFieldChangeKind to reject normalized kinds
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Comment thread modules/audit/service/models/field_change.ts
- Reject FieldChange.Kind values longer than the persisted 64-character column.

- Expand audit and field_tracking unit coverage across Append/Create paths, dial seams, and serialization branches.

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modules/core/service/orm/model/field_tracking.test.ts (1)

383-396: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the live dial assertion independent of the installed module set.

This block clears both seams and then requires recordFieldTrackingEvents to throw not available. The assertion holds only while audit.FieldChange cannot be dialed from the core unit harness. If the harness later resolves the audit service, no error is thrown, liveDialErr stays undefined, and the regex match receives an empty string. The test then fails for an environment reason, not a code defect.

Assert the fail-closed path through an explicit dial seam that returns no service, and keep the live path out of the assertion.

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-    // Live dial path (no overrides) — expect fail-closed in core unit harness.
-    __setFieldTrackingAppendForTest(undefined);
-    __setFieldTrackingDialForTest(undefined);
+    // Fail-closed when no audit service is resolvable.
+    __setFieldTrackingAppendForTest(undefined);
+    __setFieldTrackingDialForTest(() => undefined as any);
     let liveDialErr: unknown;
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In `@modules/core/service/orm/model/field_tracking.test.ts` around lines 383 -
396, Update the test around recordFieldTrackingEvents to assert fail-closed
behavior through an explicit field-tracking dial seam that returns no service,
rather than invoking the live dial path. Keep the live-path invocation out of
this assertion and verify the existing “not available” error using the
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In `@modules/audit/service/tests/field_change.test.ts`:
- Around line 203-209: Update FieldChange.Append to accept an optional
field-selection parameter and forward it to Create, preserving the existing
one-argument behavior; alternatively, remove the extra selection arrays from all
affected tests, but ensure the Append call signature matches its implementation.

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In `@modules/core/service/orm/model/field_tracking.test.ts`:
- Around line 383-396: Update the test around recordFieldTrackingEvents to
assert fail-closed behavior through an explicit field-tracking dial seam that
returns no service, rather than invoking the live dial path. Keep the live-path
invocation out of this assertion and verify the existing “not available” error
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- Accept optional FieldSelection on FieldChange.Append and pass it to Create.

- Make the dial fail-closed assertion independent of installed modules.

- Add datetime tests for catch paths, invalid walls, and dayRange branches.

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- Parameterize optional Append fields as FieldSelection<FieldChange> so typecheck accepts the Create returnFields contract.

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- Treat NonNil value shapes in FilteredInputProperties so string|null columns stay insertable.

- Export BaseModelCtor and type FieldChange Create/Search overrides without any.

- Add a compile-only Insertable nullability guard for typecheck.

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- Exercise resolveAppend when dialOverride is cleared so the live dial branch is hit and fail-closed behavior stays asserted.

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