refactor: migrate aggregation + neural field reads to resolveEntityField

Preventive cleanup of sites that previously used dual-lookup patterns
(metadata[field] ?? entity[field]) or hardcoded timestamp if-chains
to read fields off HNSWNounWithMetadata. These worked today but were
fragile — the same failure mode that caused the orderBy sort bug
would have recurred the next time someone reordered or dropped a
lookup.

- AggregationIndex.computeGroupKey + getNumericField now route all
  dimension and metric field lookups through resolveEntityField.
- improvedNeuralAPI._getItemsByTimeWindow + _clusterItemsByField
  use resolveEntityField as the primary path, with item.data as a
  legacy producer fallback. The type/nounType legacy branch is
  preserved as-is since it handles storage format compatibility
  rather than shape contract drift.

No behavior change for correct inputs. All aggregation and orderby
regression tests pass unchanged.
This commit is contained in:
David Snelling 2026-04-09 16:40:55 -07:00
parent 9855f431f7
commit 108e2bcab4
2 changed files with 33 additions and 29 deletions

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@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
* - Delta detection hashes definitions; only changed aggregates rebuild on restart
*/
import type { StorageAdapter } from '../coreTypes.js'
import type { StorageAdapter, HNSWNounWithMetadata } from '../coreTypes.js'
import { resolveEntityField } from '../coreTypes.js'
import type {
AggregateDefinition,
AggregateGroupState,
@ -96,22 +97,25 @@ function matchesSource(entity: Record<string, unknown>, source: AggregateDefinit
/**
* Compute the group key for an entity given groupBy dimensions.
*
* Field lookups go through `resolveEntityField` to honor the
* HNSWNounWithMetadata shape contract (standard fields top-level,
* custom fields in metadata) in a single source of truth.
*/
function computeGroupKey(
entity: Record<string, unknown>,
groupBy: GroupByDimension[]
): Record<string, string | number> {
const key: Record<string, string | number> = {}
const metadata = (entity.metadata ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>
const e = entity as unknown as HNSWNounWithMetadata
for (const dim of groupBy) {
if (typeof dim === 'string') {
// Plain field lookup — check metadata first, then top-level
const val = metadata[dim] ?? entity[dim]
const val = resolveEntityField(e, dim)
key[dim] = val !== undefined && val !== null ? String(val) : '__null__'
} else {
// Time-windowed field
const val = metadata[dim.field] ?? entity[dim.field]
const val = resolveEntityField(e, dim.field)
if (typeof val === 'number') {
key[dim.field] = bucketTimestamp(val, dim.window)
} else {
@ -124,11 +128,14 @@ function computeGroupKey(
}
/**
* Get the numeric value of a field from entity metadata (for metric computation).
* Get the numeric value of a field from an entity (for metric computation).
*
* Routes through `resolveEntityField` so standard top-level numeric fields
* (weight, confidence, createdAt, updatedAt) and custom user numeric fields
* in metadata are both handled in one place.
*/
function getNumericField(entity: Record<string, unknown>, field: string): number | undefined {
const metadata = (entity.metadata ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>
const val = metadata[field] ?? entity[field]
const val = resolveEntityField(entity as unknown as HNSWNounWithMetadata, field)
if (typeof val === 'number' && !isNaN(val)) return val
if (typeof val === 'string') {
const num = parseFloat(val)

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@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
* Private methods are prefixed with _ and not exposed in public API
*/
import { Vector } from '../coreTypes.js'
import { Vector, resolveEntityField, type HNSWNounWithMetadata } from '../coreTypes.js'
import { cosineDistance, euclideanDistance } from '../utils/distance.js'
import {
SemanticCluster,
@ -2927,22 +2927,20 @@ export class ImprovedNeuralAPI {
private _groupByDomain(items: any[], field: string): Map<string, any[]> {
const groups = new Map()
for (const item of items) {
// Check multiple locations for the field value
// Resolve domain field value across legacy storage shapes.
let domain: any = 'unknown'
// Special handling for type/nounType field
// Special handling for type/nounType — legacy storage compatibility
// where the type may live at item.nounType or metadata.noun/metadata.type
// rather than the current top-level item.type.
if (field === 'type' || field === 'nounType') {
domain = item.nounType || item.metadata?.noun || item.metadata?.type || 'unknown'
} else {
// Check root level first
domain = item[field]
// Primary path: single-source-of-truth resolver (standard top-level,
// custom in metadata).
domain = resolveEntityField(item as HNSWNounWithMetadata, field)
// Then check metadata
if (domain == null) {
domain = item.metadata?.[field]
}
// Then check data
// Legacy fallback: some producers stash data under item.data.
if (domain == null) {
domain = item.data?.[field]
}
@ -3127,17 +3125,16 @@ export class ImprovedNeuralAPI {
const entity = item.entity
// Get timestamp value from various possible locations
let timestamp: any = null
// Check root level first
if (timeField === 'createdAt' || timeField === 'updatedAt') {
timestamp = entity[timeField]
}
// Check metadata/data
// Resolve the timestamp field through the single-source-of-truth
// helper so standard top-level fields (createdAt, updatedAt) and
// custom fields in metadata are both handled uniformly. Fall back
// to entity.data for legacy producers that stash timestamps there.
let timestamp: any = resolveEntityField(
entity as HNSWNounWithMetadata,
timeField
)
if (timestamp == null) {
timestamp = entity.metadata?.[timeField] || entity.data?.[timeField]
timestamp = entity.data?.[timeField]
}
if (timestamp == null) {