@stonyx/orm 0.3.2-alpha.62 → 0.3.2-alpha.63

package/dist/manage-record.js

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import Orm, { store } from '@stonyx/orm';
 import OrmRecord from './record.js';
 import { getGlobalRegistry, getPendingRegistry, getPendingBelongsToRegistry, getBelongsToRegistry, getHasManyRegistry } from './relationships.js';
-import { isOrmRecord } from './utils.js';
+import { isOrmRecord, maxNumericId, NO_FREE_ID_ERROR } from './utils.js';
 const defaultOptions = {
     isDbRecord: false,
     serialize: true,
@@ -153,17 +153,58 @@ export function updateRecord(record, rawData, userOptions = {}) {
     }
 }
 /**
- * gets the next available id based on last record entry.
+ * gets the next available id, based on the HIGHEST id present.
  *
  * In MySQL mode with numeric IDs, assigns a temporary pending ID.
  * MySQL's AUTO_INCREMENT provides the real ID after INSERT.
+ *
+ * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * WAS: `Array.from(storeMap.values()).at(-1).id + 1` — the LAST INSERTED id,
+ * not the maximum (abofs/stonyx-orm#203). The store is a Map, so insertion
+ * order stops being ascending the moment a record is deleted and recreated, a
+ * db.json is written out of order, a directory-mode store is read back in file
+ * order, or a caller POSTs a high id and then a low one. After that, every
+ * server-assigned id is one that is ALREADY TAKEN — and `createRecord`'s
+ * last-entry-wins branch then overwrites that record IN PLACE and answers 200.
+ * No error, no 409, and the store's size does not change. That is the whole
+ * defect, and it is reachable from a create with NO id at all, which is the
+ * most ordinary write a consumer performs.
+ *
+ * Covered by test/unit/assign-record-id-test.ts. Note for anyone changing this
+ * function: before that file existed, the whole suite scored 951/0 both on the
+ * defect and on a naive `Math.max` fix that introduced a second one. A green
+ * suite is not evidence here; those assertions are.
+ * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
 function assignRecordId(modelName, rawData) {
-    if (rawData.id)
+    // PRESENCE, not truthiness. `0` is a legal value for an `attr('number')` id,
+    // and `if (rawData.id) return` silently reassigned it, handing the caller back
+    // a different record than the one it named (#203).
+    //
+    // `''` is deliberately NOT honoured here and this is not an oversight: it is
+    // the one string that means "no id". `parseInt('')` is `NaN`, a record CAN be
+    // held under the key `NaN`, and orm-request.ts's body-id normalisation relies
+    // on `''` staying absent — otherwise `POST {"id":""}` answers 409 against a
+    // record it never named.
+    //
+    // WHAT WIDENING THIS TO `!== undefined` ACTUALLY DOES, measured rather than
+    // asserted: `{id: ''}` early-returns, `parseInt('')` NaNs it, and the record
+    // lands on the store's `NaN` slot and OVERWRITES whatever is there — #203's
+    // own defect class. It does NOT turn access-filter-enforcement-test.ts
+    // assertion 44 red; an earlier revision of this comment claimed it did, which
+    // converted an unknown into a false assurance. AC6's BOUNDARY assertions are
+    // what catch it, and they only do so because they seed the `NaN` slot first.
+    if (rawData.id || rawData.id === 0)
         return;
     // In SQL mode with numeric IDs, defer to database auto-increment.
     // Use unique negative integers — they survive the number transform (parseInt preserves negatives)
     // and avoid NaN store-key collisions that string pending IDs caused.
+    //
+    // This early return is ABOVE the max computation on purpose: a pending
+    // negative must never be a candidate for, or be perturbed by, the max path.
+    // Pinned directly (AC5.3) rather than by asserting the max is unaffected —
+    // that assertion could not have failed, because nothing negative ever reaches
+    // the code below.
     if (Orm.instance?.sqlDb && !isStringIdModel(modelName)) {
         rawData.id = -(++pendingIdCounter);
         rawData.__pendingSqlId = true;
@@ -173,13 +214,197 @@ function assignRecordId(modelName, rawData) {
     if (!storeMap)
         throw new Error(`Cannot assign record ID: model "${modelName}" not found in store`);
     const modelStore = Array.from(storeMap.values()).filter(isOrmRecord);
-    const lastRecord = modelStore.at(-1);
-    rawData.id = lastRecord ? lastRecord.id + 1 : 1;
+    // ONE COPY of the max-numeric-id reduce, in src/utils.ts. There were three
+    // (here, StandaloneDB.create, and the #203 test helper) and `docs/
+    // improvements.md`'s WET Code category prescribes the extraction. What that
+    // helper must NOT be is `Math.max(...ids)`; the reason is measured and it is
+    // documented at the helper rather than duplicated here. Pinned by AC2.
+    const maxId = maxNumericId(modelStore);
+    // THE OCCUPANCY CHECK RUNS ON THE LANDING KEY, NOT ON THE RAW CANDIDATE, and
+    // the difference is a silent data loss rather than a nicety.
+    //
+    // `createRecord` looks the record up under `rawData.id` (:50) but WRITES it
+    // under `record.id` (:69) — the value after the model's declared id transform
+    // has run inside `serialize`. When the transform is not the identity those two
+    // differ, so a guard written as `storeMap.has(rawData.id)` checks a key the
+    // record will never occupy, misses an occupied slot and overwrites it —
+    // measured on an `uppercase`-id model: the guard checks `owner-1`, the record
+    // lands under `OWNER-1`, store size unchanged, no error. That is
+    // abofs/stonyx-orm#205's lookup-key/landing-key divergence reappearing inside
+    // #203's own fix, which is why AC4 exists and why `rawData.id` is set to the
+    // LANDING key below.
+    //
+    // THE SCOPE OF THAT CLAIM, stated rather than implied. Setting `rawData.id` to
+    // the landing key makes :50 and :69 agree for every IDEMPOTENT id transform —
+    // `number`, `float`, `string`, `passthrough`, `uppercase`, `trim`. It does NOT
+    // make them agree for `date` or `timestamp`: `transforms.date` returns a NEW
+    // object every call and a `Map` keys by identity, so `storeMap.has(landingKey)`
+    // is always `false` there and the occupancy check is vacuous. `dev` is broken
+    // for those types too — this is not a regression — but no comment here may
+    // claim a property it was not measured to have (#212 § AC5).
+    //
+    // Resolved ONCE, outside the walk: `getIdType` instantiates the model class,
+    // so resolving it per candidate would put a model construction on every
+    // iteration of a loop that exists to walk past occupied slots.
+    const toStoreKey = storeKeyDeriver(modelName);
+    // DOES THIS MODEL FILE ITS RECORDS UNDER STRING KEYS? Decided by RUNNING the
+    // model's own id transform once, not by matching a type NAME against a list:
+    // `Orm.instance.transforms` (main.ts:70) is a public, MUTABLE instance
+    // property, so any enumeration of "the string-ish types" written here would be
+    // wrong the moment a consumer registers one.
+    const stringKeyed = typeof toStoreKey(maxId + 1) === 'string';
+    // THE CANDIDATE FOR A STRING-KEYED MODEL IS NOT A BARE NUMBER, and this is
+    // abofs/stonyx-orm#209 — which is REOPENED — not aesthetics.
+    //
+    // `orm-request.ts`'s `coerceId` (:322) resolves a NUMERIC-LOOKING string to a
+    // NUMBER on every id-bearing surface, while a model declaring
+    // `id = attr('string')` files under the STRING key. So a server-assigned `'1'`
+    // produces a record that is created and then NOT ADDRESSABLE. Measured over
+    // the route, owner store `{'1': ...}`:
+    //
+    //   GET    /owners/1       -> 404      (the record exists)
+    //   DELETE /owners/1       -> 404
+    //   GET    /owners/owner-1 -> 200
+    //
+    // and `_withHooks` (:1185) hands an after-`create` hook
+    // `context.record === undefined` for the same reason. `dev` assigned `'bob1'`,
+    // which is not numeric-looking, so `dev` has neither problem: a bare-number
+    // candidate would move #209 from "a caller supplied a numeric-looking id" onto
+    // the DEFAULT path for every server-assigned create on every string-id model.
+    // Prefixing with the model name keeps #209's population exactly as narrow as
+    // it already was, without touching the one shared coercion or the assertion
+    // that pins #209 open. Pinned by AC3.
+    const toCandidate = stringKeyed
+        ? (value) => `${modelName}-${value}`
+        : (value) => value;
+    // `maxId + 1` is the id AC1 pins: strictly greater than every numeric key
+    // present. IT IS NOT ALWAYS AVAILABLE, and that gap was a live denial of
+    // service. Float64 has no integer successor at or above 2^53, so
+    // `maxId + 1 === maxId` for every `maxId >= 9007199254740992` and `+ 1` inside
+    // the walk is a NO-OP there. One record filed under that key — which an
+    // unauthenticated `POST {"id":9007199254740992}` puts there, and which reaches
+    // even a filter-protected collection through has-many.ts:65 (#207), a channel
+    // GATE 0 does not cover — made the walk unable to advance, so it exhausted its
+    // budget and threw on EVERY subsequent server-assigned create, permanently,
+    // until that record was deleted. Measured over the route: 200, then 500 for
+    // every no-id create. `dev` answers 200.
+    //
+    // So a store holding one adversarial record must not disable its collection.
+    // When "above the max" is not a usable strategy the walk RESTARTS FROM 1: the
+    // store holds at most `size` keys, so one of `1 .. size + 1` is always free
+    // under an injective id transform. Pinned by AC7.
+    const start = maxId + 1;
+    let landingKey = firstFreeKey(storeMap, toStoreKey, toCandidate, start);
+    // THE RESTART, and it is the whole of the ceiling fix. Killing mutation:
+    // delete this block -> AC7 goes red (the route answers 409 instead of the
+    // created resource).
+    if (landingKey === NO_FREE_KEY && start !== 1) {
+        landingKey = firstFreeKey(storeMap, toStoreKey, toCandidate, 1);
+    }
+    if (landingKey === NO_FREE_KEY) {
+        // Reachable only with a NON-INJECTIVE id transform — see `firstFreeKey`.
+        // `createHandler` matches this message and answers 409 rather than letting it
+        // reach express's default handler, which serialises a stack trace with
+        // absolute install paths outside NODE_ENV=production (the hazard
+        // orm-request.ts:553-558 exists to name). Pinned by AC8.
+        throw new Error(`${NO_FREE_ID_ERROR} for model "${modelName}"`);
+    }
+    rawData.id = landingKey;
 }
-function isStringIdModel(modelName) {
-    const modelClass = Orm.instance.getRecordClasses(modelName).modelClass;
+// Returned instead of a key so that "no key" cannot be confused with a transform
+// that legitimately produced `undefined` or `null`.
+const NO_FREE_KEY = Symbol('no free store key');
+/**
+ * The first store key at or above `start` that no record occupies, walking
+ * candidate ids upward, or `NO_FREE_KEY` if the walk cannot reach one.
+ */
+function firstFreeKey(storeMap, toStoreKey, toCandidate, start) {
+    let candidate = start;
+    let landingKey = toStoreKey(toCandidate(candidate));
+    let attempts = 0;
+    while (storeMap.has(landingKey)) {
+        // THE BOUND IS EXACTLY TIGHT, not conservative: this walk tries
+        // `storeMap.size + 1` DISTINCT candidates against at most `storeMap.size`
+        // occupied keys, so under an injective `toStoreKey` it provably cannot fire.
+        // Under a non-injective one it provably terminates — and that is a reachable
+        // consumer state rather than a hypothesis: `transforms.boolean`
+        // (transforms.ts:4) collapses every candidate onto `true`/`false`, and
+        // `Orm.instance.transforms` (main.ts:70) is public and MUTABLE, so a consumer
+        // can register an arbitrary non-injective transform and name it as an id
+        // type. Without this, a no-id create spins forever inside a synchronous store
+        // walk and pins a worker, which is worse than either collision policy. Its
+        // EXISTENCE and its THRESHOLD are both pinned by AC8: deleting it makes AC8
+        // HANG rather than fail, and weakening it to fire on the first collision
+        // makes AC8.1 red.
+        if (++attempts > storeMap.size)
+            return NO_FREE_KEY;
+        // NOTE FOR ANYONE ADDING A SECOND EXIT HERE. A `candidate + 1 === candidate`
+        // float-saturation check was written, measured, and REMOVED: with the
+        // restart-from-1 above in place, deleting the saturation check leaves the
+        // whole suite green, because the budget reaches the same `NO_FREE_KEY` one
+        // pass later and the restart still answers. An unkillable guard in a change
+        // whose deliverable is falsifiable coverage is exactly what this story exists
+        // to stop shipping. `+ 1` being a no-op at 2^53 costs `size` extra `Map.has`
+        // calls on that one path and changes no outcome.
+        candidate += 1;
+        landingKey = toStoreKey(toCandidate(candidate));
+    }
+    return landingKey;
+}
+/**
+ * Returns the derivation that maps an id VALUE to the store KEY a record
+ * carrying it will actually be filed under — the model's declared id transform,
+ * the same one `serialize` runs at createRecord:68 before the `.set` at :69.
+ */
+function storeKeyDeriver(modelName) {
+    const idType = getIdType(modelName);
+    const transform = idType ? Orm.instance?.transforms?.[idType] : undefined;
+    // SURVIVOR, RETAINED, with its reachability condition stated rather than left
+    // silent — `docs/project-structure.md` § "unkillable code reads as coverage and
+    // is not" is the standing rule and it applies outside orm-request.ts too.
+    //
+    // No mutation in this repo can kill this branch, and that is STRUCTURAL rather
+    // than an untested gap: `Model` declares `id = attr('number')` (model.ts:15) so
+    // every registered model has an id type; `ModelProperty` refuses a type with no
+    // registered transform (model-property.ts:4) so a declared type always
+    // resolves; and `getIdType` can therefore only return `undefined` when
+    // `getRecordClasses` yields no `modelClass` — in which case `createRecord`
+    // throws at :62 a few lines later regardless, so no record is ever filed
+    // through this branch.
+    //
+    // BECOMES REACHABLE if a model can be declared without an `id` property, if a
+    // store map can exist for a model with no registered class, or if
+    // `createRecord` stops constructing the model class. Kept rather than deleted
+    // because the alternative on that path is a `transform is not a function`
+    // TypeError, and because identity is exactly what `createRecord` would file
+    // under when no transform exists — the two agree, which is the property AC4 is
+    // about.
+    if (typeof transform !== 'function')
+        return value => value;
+    return value => {
+        try {
+            return transform(value);
+        }
+        catch {
+            // `uppercase` and `trim` (transforms.ts:11-12) call a string method on the
+            // value directly, so a NUMERIC candidate throws `value?.toUpperCase is not
+            // a function`. On `dev` they never saw one — `lastRecord.id + 1` on a
+            // string id is a string — so feeding them a number here would regress a
+            // legal, registered id type into an uncaught 500. The retry feeds the
+            // string form, which is the shape an id actually arrives in off a JSON body
+            // or a URL param. A transform that throws on BOTH shapes still propagates.
+            // Pinned by AC9.
+            return transform(String(value));
+        }
+    };
+}
+function getIdType(modelName) {
+    const modelClass = Orm.instance?.getRecordClasses(modelName).modelClass;
     if (!modelClass)
-        return false;
+        return undefined;
     const model = new modelClass(modelName);
-    return model.id?.type === 'string';
+    return model.id?.type;
+}
+function isStringIdModel(modelName) {
+    return getIdType(modelName) === 'string';
 }

package/dist/orm-request.d.ts

@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@
  *
  * PASSING THE CONTEXT MAKES A MODEL-CORRECT ANSWER POSSIBLE. It does not make
  * the answer model-correct on its own -- the resolved predicate has to READ it.
- * Measured against an ARITY-1 predicate, on a request express dispatched to
- * `GET /owners/angela`, asked about ANIMALS:
+ * Measured against this repo's own shipped access class, on a request express
+ * dispatched to `GET /owners/angela`, asked about ANIMALS:
  *
  *     getAccess('animal')(ownersRequest, { model: 'animal', operation: 'read' })
  *       ->  record => record.id !== 'angela' && record.id !== 'restricted'
@@ -110,30 +110,23 @@
  * `['read', 'create', 'update', 'delete']`, a full CRUD grant. Either way the
  * context was supplied and the answer is not the animal answer, and it is wrong
  * in the GRANTING direction, because that predicate is arity-1 and identifies
- * its collection from the request. (Asserted on a live dispatch by AC9 in
- * test/integration/orm-test.ts, against a deliberately arity-1 predicate.)
- *
- * This repo's own sample access class has since been MIGRATED to read the
- * context (abofs/stonyx-orm#222), so `getAccess('animal')` here now answers
- * with the animal filter. That is not true of a consumer tree: an arity-1
- * predicate keeps working -- the second argument is additive -- and the caller
- * has no supported way to tell which kind it got. The boot-time arity warning
- * that surfaces one is abofs/stonyx-orm#221.
+ * its collection from the request. (The first of these is asserted on a live
+ * dispatch by AC9 in test/integration/orm-test.ts.)
+ *
+ * Every predicate in this repo and in every consumer tree is arity-1 on the day
+ * this ships, and the caller has no supported way to tell which kind it got --
+ * the boot-time arity warning that would surface it is abofs/stonyx-orm#213.
  * So: pass the context, and do not treat a resolved predicate's answer as
  * model-specific until that predicate has been migrated to read the context.
  *
  * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * DO NOT RECONSTRUCT THE REQUEST PATH INSIDE `access()`.
  * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * You do not have to. `auth()` below hands your predicate the ACCESS CONTEXT as
- * argument two, and `context.model` already names the collection -- see the
- * contract section above. Argument ONE is still the raw transport artifact, and
- * everything from here to the end of this banner is the record of what happened
- * when predicates worked the collection out from it. IT IS HISTORY, NOT
- * GUIDANCE: do not write any of it into a new predicate. Every attempt to
- * identify the collection by parsing the request target has failed OPEN. Five
- * distinct variants of the same three-line example have now been found, each
- * after the previous was fixed, by five different people:
+ * `auth()` below hands your `access(request)` a raw transport artifact and asks
+ * you to work out which collection it addresses. Every attempt to do that by
+ * parsing the request target has failed OPEN. Five distinct variants of the
+ * same three-line example have now been found, each after the previous was
+ * fixed, by five different people:
  *
  *   1. `request.url` is mount-relative under `RestServer.mountRoute`, so a
  *      prefix match against it is ALWAYS false.
@@ -152,31 +145,22 @@
  *      last, and the record comes back in full. It walks past a hard
  *      `return false` deny the same way.
  *
- * The fix is not a sixth rule, and it is not a better string to match. It is to
- * stop identifying the collection at all: read `context.model`.
- *
- *   An intermediate revision of the sample read `request.baseUrl` -- the mount
- *   Express ACTUALLY MATCHED. That closed all five variants (no query string,
- *   not mount-relative, unaffected by absolute-form, already carrying the
- *   configured `ORM_REST_ROUTE` prefix), but it was a transport artifact
- *   standing in for a structural fact and the sample no longer does it.
- *   `context.model` IS the structural fact, so all five variants are
- *   unconstructible against a migrated predicate rather than handled.
- *
- * ONE READ OF ARGUMENT ONE SURVIVES, AND IT MUST: `request.path`. It is
- * mount-relative and query-free, and it is for rules that distinguish SUB-PATHS
- * beneath the mount. The context names which model and which verb, NOT which
- * route, so the sample's `/archived` deny cannot be expressed from the context
- * alone and a context-ONLY rewrite would silently turn that deny into an allow.
- * Lower-case it before comparing -- the router matched case-insensitively -- and
- * compare record ids at their real case.
+ * The fix is not a sixth rule. It is to stop parsing:
+ *
+ *   `request.baseUrl` is the mount Express ACTUALLY MATCHED when it dispatched
+ *   the request. It carries no query string, it is not mount-relative, it is
+ *   unaffected by absolute-form, and it already includes the configured
+ *   `ORM_REST_ROUTE` prefix -- so there is nothing to derive and nothing to
+ *   join. Compare it lower-cased (the router matched case-insensitively) and
+ *   fail CLOSED when it is absent. Use `request.path` -- mount-relative and
+ *   query-free -- if you need to distinguish sub-paths.
  *
  * `?? ''` is not a defence. It converts an absent request target into an empty
  * string, which matches no collection, which falls through to the permission
- * array -- a total grant. An input you cannot identify must DENY, and that
- * applies to the context too: the sample returns `false` for an absent `model`
- * rather than falling through.
+ * array -- a total grant. An input you cannot identify must DENY.
  *
+ * THAT IS STILL A STOPGAP. `baseUrl` closes all five variants, but it is a
+ * transport artifact being asked to stand in for a structural fact.
  * THE REAL FIX IS abofs/stonyx-orm#202: `access()` should receive the model,
  * the operation and the record. Prefer the array shape (`['read']`) or `false`
  * until #202 lands; the function shape is what requires any matching at all.

package/dist/orm-request.js

@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@
  *
  * PASSING THE CONTEXT MAKES A MODEL-CORRECT ANSWER POSSIBLE. It does not make
  * the answer model-correct on its own -- the resolved predicate has to READ it.
- * Measured against an ARITY-1 predicate, on a request express dispatched to
- * `GET /owners/angela`, asked about ANIMALS:
+ * Measured against this repo's own shipped access class, on a request express
+ * dispatched to `GET /owners/angela`, asked about ANIMALS:
  *
  *     getAccess('animal')(ownersRequest, { model: 'animal', operation: 'read' })
  *       ->  record => record.id !== 'angela' && record.id !== 'restricted'
@@ -110,30 +110,23 @@
  * `['read', 'create', 'update', 'delete']`, a full CRUD grant. Either way the
  * context was supplied and the answer is not the animal answer, and it is wrong
  * in the GRANTING direction, because that predicate is arity-1 and identifies
- * its collection from the request. (Asserted on a live dispatch by AC9 in
- * test/integration/orm-test.ts, against a deliberately arity-1 predicate.)
+ * its collection from the request. (The first of these is asserted on a live
+ * dispatch by AC9 in test/integration/orm-test.ts.)
  *
- * This repo's own sample access class has since been MIGRATED to read the
- * context (abofs/stonyx-orm#222), so `getAccess('animal')` here now answers
- * with the animal filter. That is not true of a consumer tree: an arity-1
- * predicate keeps working -- the second argument is additive -- and the caller
- * has no supported way to tell which kind it got. The boot-time arity warning
- * that surfaces one is abofs/stonyx-orm#221.
+ * Every predicate in this repo and in every consumer tree is arity-1 on the day
+ * this ships, and the caller has no supported way to tell which kind it got --
+ * the boot-time arity warning that would surface it is abofs/stonyx-orm#213.
  * So: pass the context, and do not treat a resolved predicate's answer as
  * model-specific until that predicate has been migrated to read the context.
  *
  * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * DO NOT RECONSTRUCT THE REQUEST PATH INSIDE `access()`.
  * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * You do not have to. `auth()` below hands your predicate the ACCESS CONTEXT as
- * argument two, and `context.model` already names the collection -- see the
- * contract section above. Argument ONE is still the raw transport artifact, and
- * everything from here to the end of this banner is the record of what happened
- * when predicates worked the collection out from it. IT IS HISTORY, NOT
- * GUIDANCE: do not write any of it into a new predicate. Every attempt to
- * identify the collection by parsing the request target has failed OPEN. Five
- * distinct variants of the same three-line example have now been found, each
- * after the previous was fixed, by five different people:
+ * `auth()` below hands your `access(request)` a raw transport artifact and asks
+ * you to work out which collection it addresses. Every attempt to do that by
+ * parsing the request target has failed OPEN. Five distinct variants of the
+ * same three-line example have now been found, each after the previous was
+ * fixed, by five different people:
  *
  *   1. `request.url` is mount-relative under `RestServer.mountRoute`, so a
  *      prefix match against it is ALWAYS false.
@@ -152,31 +145,22 @@
  *      last, and the record comes back in full. It walks past a hard
  *      `return false` deny the same way.
  *
- * The fix is not a sixth rule, and it is not a better string to match. It is to
- * stop identifying the collection at all: read `context.model`.
+ * The fix is not a sixth rule. It is to stop parsing:
  *
- *   An intermediate revision of the sample read `request.baseUrl` -- the mount
- *   Express ACTUALLY MATCHED. That closed all five variants (no query string,
- *   not mount-relative, unaffected by absolute-form, already carrying the
- *   configured `ORM_REST_ROUTE` prefix), but it was a transport artifact
- *   standing in for a structural fact and the sample no longer does it.
- *   `context.model` IS the structural fact, so all five variants are
- *   unconstructible against a migrated predicate rather than handled.
- *
- * ONE READ OF ARGUMENT ONE SURVIVES, AND IT MUST: `request.path`. It is
- * mount-relative and query-free, and it is for rules that distinguish SUB-PATHS
- * beneath the mount. The context names which model and which verb, NOT which
- * route, so the sample's `/archived` deny cannot be expressed from the context
- * alone and a context-ONLY rewrite would silently turn that deny into an allow.
- * Lower-case it before comparing -- the router matched case-insensitively -- and
- * compare record ids at their real case.
+ *   `request.baseUrl` is the mount Express ACTUALLY MATCHED when it dispatched
+ *   the request. It carries no query string, it is not mount-relative, it is
+ *   unaffected by absolute-form, and it already includes the configured
+ *   `ORM_REST_ROUTE` prefix -- so there is nothing to derive and nothing to
+ *   join. Compare it lower-cased (the router matched case-insensitively) and
+ *   fail CLOSED when it is absent. Use `request.path` -- mount-relative and
+ *   query-free -- if you need to distinguish sub-paths.
  *
  * `?? ''` is not a defence. It converts an absent request target into an empty
  * string, which matches no collection, which falls through to the permission
- * array -- a total grant. An input you cannot identify must DENY, and that
- * applies to the context too: the sample returns `false` for an absent `model`
- * rather than falling through.
+ * array -- a total grant. An input you cannot identify must DENY.
  *
+ * THAT IS STILL A STOPGAP. `baseUrl` closes all five variants, but it is a
+ * transport artifact being asked to stand in for a structural fact.
  * THE REAL FIX IS abofs/stonyx-orm#202: `access()` should receive the model,
  * the operation and the record. Prefer the array shape (`['read']`) or `false`
  * until #202 lands; the function shape is what requires any matching at all.
@@ -199,7 +183,7 @@ import { getPluralName } from './plural-registry.js';
 import { getBeforeHooks, getAfterHooks } from './hooks.js';
 import config from 'stonyx/config';
 import log from 'stonyx/log';
-import { isOrmRecord } from './utils.js';
+import { isOrmRecord, NO_FREE_ID_ERROR } from './utils.js';
 const methodAccessMap = {
     GET: 'read',
     POST: 'create',
@@ -692,7 +676,39 @@ export default class OrmRequest extends Request {
             // is true for a record the request did not create. The map's size is the
             // only O(1) signal that distinguishes an insert from an overwrite.
             const slotsBefore = store.get(model)?.size ?? 0;
-            const created = createRecord(model, recordAttributes, { serialize: false, _skipAutoPersist: true });
+            // THE ONE `createRecord` FAILURE THIS ROUTE ANSWERS RATHER THAN
+            // PROPAGATES, and it is narrow on purpose.
+            //
+            // `assignRecordId` throws when it cannot derive a free store key for a
+            // server-assigned id. Unguarded that rejection is auto-forwarded -- there
+            // is no catch here, none in @stonyx/rest-server's dispatcher
+            // (dist/request.js:41-70), and express 5 hands it to its default error
+            // handler, which serialises the STACK, with absolute install paths and the
+            // internal module graph, to an unauthenticated caller outside
+            // NODE_ENV=production. That is the hazard :553-558 already names in this
+            // file, and every sibling refusal in this handler returns an integer
+            // status instead. So this one returns 409, matching the client-duplicate
+            // refusal at :713: the caller asked for a record and the collection has no
+            // id to give it.
+            //
+            // MATCHED ON THE SHARED PREFIX, not on a literal, and NOT by catching
+            // everything: `createRecord` also throws for "ORM is not ready", a
+            // read-only view and an unregistered model store, and turning any of those
+            // into a 409 would report a configuration fault as a conflict. Anything
+            // else is re-thrown unchanged.
+            let created;
+            try {
+                created = createRecord(model, recordAttributes, { serialize: false, _skipAutoPersist: true });
+            }
+            catch (error) {
+                if (!(error instanceof Error) || !error.message.startsWith(NO_FREE_ID_ERROR))
+                    throw error;
+                // Not silently. A collection that can no longer assign an id is a
+                // configuration fault (a non-injective id transform), and a bare 409
+                // with no diagnostic is indistinguishable from an ordinary duplicate.
+                log.error?.(`[@stonyx/orm] ${error.message}`);
+                return 409; // Conflict
+            }
             const record = isOrmRecord(created) ? created : null;
             if (!record)
                 return 500;
@@ -716,11 +732,32 @@ export default class OrmRequest extends Request {
                 //
                 // Both conditions are required and neither implies the other:
                 //   createdNewSlot -- the store grew, so this request inserted rather
-                //                     than overwrote. Guards `assignRecordId` picking an
-                //                     id that is already taken (it returns
-                //                     last-INSERTED + 1, not max + 1, so a store whose
-                //                     insertion order is not ascending collides) -- see
-                //                     abofs/stonyx-orm#203.
+                //                     than overwrote. SURVIVOR AS OF #203, AND THAT IS
+                //                     WHAT THIS NOTE IS FOR. It used to be killable:
+                //                     `assignRecordId` returned last-INSERTED + 1, so a
+                //                     server-assigned id could land on an occupied slot,
+                //                     `createRecord` updated in place, and removing this
+                //                     half turned access-filter-enforcement-test.ts
+                //                     assertion 31 red. #203 closed that: the
+                //                     server-assigned path now walks past occupied keys,
+                //                     so no create reaching here can overwrite. Measured
+                //                     -- delete `createdNewSlot &&` below: `dev` gives
+                //                     55 pass / 1 fail with assertion 31 RED, this tree
+                //                     gives 56 pass / 0 fail, GREEN.
+                //                     KEPT ANYWAY, AND NOT FOR THE OLD REASON. Without
+                //                     it a denied create becomes `store.remove` on a key
+                //                     the caller may have influenced, which :815-820
+                //                     records as having been an unauthenticated deletion
+                //                     primitive across the whole id space. BECOMES
+                //                     KILLABLE AGAIN the moment any caller-supplied id
+                //                     can reach `createRecord` from this handler --
+                //                     which is exactly what has-many.ts:65 and
+                //                     belongs-to.ts:45 already do for ANOTHER model's
+                //                     store (abofs/stonyx-orm#207), and what a third
+                //                     un-stripped id channel would do for this one
+                //                     (#204). Do not delete it on the strength of #203
+                //                     being closed; that is the reasoning :862-867 warns
+                //                     about, one level up.
                 //   identity       -- the slot still holds the object we just created,
                 //                     so nothing between createRecord and here replaced
                 //                     it. Deleting this half SURVIVES the suite, and it

package/dist/standalone-db.js

@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
  */
 import fs from 'fs/promises';
 import path from 'path';
+// `./utils.js` pulls in `@stonyx/utils/string` and nothing else -- no ORM
+// bootstrap, no `@stonyx/orm` index, no side effects -- so the "no framework
+// dependencies" property above still holds.
+import { maxNumericId } from './utils.js';
 export default class StandaloneDB {
     mode;
     dbPath;
@@ -102,11 +106,19 @@ export default class StandaloneDB {
     async create(collection, data) {
         const records = await this.readCollection(collection);
         if (!data.id) {
-            const maxId = records.reduce((max, r) => {
-                const rid = typeof r.id === 'number' ? r.id : 0;
-                return rid > max ? rid : max;
-            }, 0);
-            data.id = maxId + 1;
+            // SHARED WITH `assignRecordId` (src/manage-record.ts), which is the other
+            // place this repo picks a server-assigned id. It was a second copy of the
+            // reduce, and nothing here pointed at it — a maintainer editing this
+            // method could not discover the other existed. See `maxNumericId` for why
+            // it is not `Math.max` (abofs/stonyx-orm#203).
+            //
+            // THE TWO ARE NOT THE SAME FUNCTION beyond this line, deliberately.
+            // `StandaloneDB` has no model, id-type or transform concept, so `maxId + 1`
+            // IS its store key; `assignRecordId` has to map the candidate through the
+            // model's declared id transform first, and then walk past occupied keys.
+            // Transplanting this method's remaining logic into the ORM reproduces
+            // #203's landing-key defect exactly — which is what AC4 pins.
+            data.id = maxNumericId(records) + 1;
         }
         // Check for duplicate id
         const existing = records.find(r => r.id === data.id);