[Upd4ting]

Why

@antelopejs/interface-database-decorators 0.5.0 dropped ContainerModifier's type parameters. interface-data-api up to 0.7.1 still emits typeof ContainerModifier<any> in dist/metadata.d.ts. Every project on decorators 0.5.x then fails to typecheck with TS2635, and skipLibCheck is forbidden in our projects. This PR makes the published declarations typecheck against decorators 0.5 and adds a test that checks them the way a consumer does.

What

• DataAPIMeta.modifierKeys, DataAPIMeta.setModifierKey and the @ModifierKey decorator take a Class<ContainerModifier>, a construct signature with no type arguments, instead of typeof ContainerModifier<any>. LocalizationModifier and every other subclass are accepted. docs/9.modifiers.md shows the new signature.
• No spelling types precisely under both decorators lines. Under 0.2, ContainerModifier's Meta parameter is contravariant through unlockrequest, so a plain construct signature rejects LocalizationModifier; a version-neutral form would have to widen to any TwoWayModifier. So the decorators peer range rises from >=0.1.10 <1.0.0 to >=0.5.0 <1.0.0.
• Dev dependencies: decorators ^0.5.2, interface-database ^0.3.3. The test project's @antelopejs/mongodb module moves from 1.4.4 to 1.7.0, the release that implements interface-database 0.3 (Schema.list, which decorators 0.5 calls). The README peer table reads the new floor and the tested versions.
• New src/tests/index/consumer_declarations.test.ts runs in pnpm test. It type-checks a consumer module against the built dist declarations, resolved through the package name, with skipLibCheck: false and the installed decorators 0.5.2. The consumer declares a DataController with @ModifierKey(LocalizationModifier) and uses Query, Validation and StoredRow.

flowchart LR
  consumer["consumer.ts (skipLibCheck: false)"] --> dts["dist/*.d.ts of interface-data-api"]
  dts --> dec["interface-database-decorators 0.5.2 declarations"]
  dts -- "before: typeof ContainerModifier<any>" --> err["TS2635"]
  dts -- "now: Class<ContainerModifier>" --> ok["no diagnostics"]

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Attention

• Peer floor. @antelopejs/interface-database-decorators must now be >=0.5.0. A project on decorators 0.2 to 0.4 has to upgrade its decorators with this release. The upgrade note for the docs(changelog) PR after the release:

  - `@antelopejs/interface-database-decorators` must be `>=0.5.0` ([#129](https://github.com/AntelopeJS/interface-data-api/pull/129)). `@ModifierKey`, `DataAPIMeta.setModifierKey` and `DataAPIMeta.modifierKeys` take a `Class<ContainerModifier>`; 0.7.1 and earlier fail to typecheck on decorators 0.5 with TS2635.

• Declarations. Only the three signatures above change. Runtime exports are identical.

• antelopejs-api-diff origin/main cannot build its base, because origin/main does not compile against decorators 0.5. The comparison below builds origin/main with its own lockfile instead.

Deprecated RowFields alias

@antelopejs/interface-data-api/metadata exports RowFields again, as type RowFields = StoredRow marked @deprecated. interface-dms 0.12 and 0.13 name RowFields in their published declarations, as the result type of their get and edit routes. The alias keeps them compiling against data-api 0.7.x until ANT-2384 lands. It is a real type, not unknown.

Checked both ways in a scratch project with this branch packed, @antelopejs/interface-dms 0.13.3, decorators 0.5.2 and interface-core 0.5.1, tsc with skipLibCheck: false over every interface-dms module that names RowFields. With the alias there are no diagnostics. With it removed from the packed declarations:

node_modules/@antelopejs/interface-dms/dist/base/table-view/internal/guards.d.ts(15,138): error TS2694: Namespace '"node_modules/@antelopejs/interface-data-api/dist/metadata"' has no exported member '
node_modules/@antelopejs/interface-dms/dist/base/table-view/routes.d.ts(12,115): error TS2694: Namespace '"node_modules/@antelopejs/interface-data-api/dist/metadata"' has no exported member 'RowFields
node_modules/@antelopejs/interface-dms/dist/base/table-view/routes.d.ts(44,117): error TS2694: Namespace '"node_modules/@antelopejs/interface-data-api/dist/metadata"' has no exported member 'RowFields
node_modules/@antelopejs/interface-dms/dist/base/table-view/routes.d.ts(77,122): error TS2694: Namespace '"node_modules/@antelopejs/interface-data-api/dist/metadata"' has no exported member 'RowFields
node_modules/@antelopejs/interface-dms/dist/base/table-view/routes.d.ts(86,124): error TS2694: Namespace '"node_modules/@antelopejs/interface-data-api/dist/metadata"' has no exported member 'RowFields

The consumer test also assigns a StoredRow to RowFields and checks that DefaultRoutes.Get answers a RowFields.

SAFETY comments added

None. The suppression budget is unchanged.

Proof

pnpm run checks: 11 passed, 0 failed, including 219 + 1 tests on decorators 0.5.2 and mongodb 1.7.0. pnpm exec tsc -p docs/tsconfig.json passes.

The new test, with the built dist/metadata.d.ts put back to typeof ContainerModifier<any>:

  Published declarations
    1) type-check in a consumer module with library checks on


  0 passing (6s)
  1 failing

  1) Published declarations
       type-check in a consumer module with library checks on:

      AssertionError: expected [ …(3) ] to deeply equal []
      + expected - actual

      -[
      -  "TS2635 dist/metadata.d.ts: Type 'typeof ContainerModifier' has no signatures for which the type argument list is applicable."
      -  "TS2635 dist/metadata.d.ts: Type 'typeof ContainerModifier' has no signatures for which the type argument list is applicable."
      -  "TS2635 dist/metadata.d.ts: Type 'typeof ContainerModifier' has no signatures for which the type argument list is applicable."
      -]
      +[]
      

On this branch:

  Published declarations
    ✔ type-check in a consumer module with library checks on (4064ms)

  1 passing (4s)

Declarations, origin/main built with its own lockfile against HEAD. Every other .d.ts is identical:

--- dist/metadata.d.ts	2026-11-13 12:15:09.635900447 +0000
+++ dist/metadata.d.ts	2026-11-13 12:14:45.943498026 +0000
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
     /** Key of the DataAPI class containing a database table instance. */
     modelKey?: string;
     /** Keys of the DataAPI class containing database modifier keys. */
-    modifierKeys: Map<typeof ContainerModifier<any>, string>;
+    modifierKeys: Map<Class<ContainerModifier>, string>;
     /** Schema name where the table is registered. */
     schemaName: string;
     /** Database Schema class. */
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
      * @param name Field name
      * @param modifierClass Modifier
      */
-    setModifierKey(name: string, modifierClass: typeof ContainerModifier<any>): this;
+    setModifierKey(name: string, modifierClass: Class<ContainerModifier>): this;
     /**
      * Adds the given endpoint to the DataAPI
      *
@@ -275,5 +275,5 @@
  *
  * @param modifierClass Modifier
  */
-export declare const ModifierKey: (modifierClass: typeof ContainerModifier<any>) => import("@antelopejs/interface-core/decorators").PropertyDecorator;
+export declare const ModifierKey: (modifierClass: Class<ContainerModifier>) => import("@antelopejs/interface-core/decorators").PropertyDecorator;
 export declare function GetDataControllerMeta(thisObj: DataControllerInstance): DataAPIMeta;

Runtime exports of index, metadata and components (names and typeof), compared the same way: identical, 27 names.