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WalkthroughThe change prevents encryption of null message data and omits null-valued fields from wire JSON. Realtime and REST tests now run these checks without deviation flags. ChangesNull field serialization
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Most null-field serialization now follows the requested behavior, but a null payload that already has an encoding can still produce a decoding failure on encrypted channels. The narrow issue should be corrected before relying on those messages. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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| return Object.assign({}, this, { encoding, data }); | ||
| const result: Record<string, any> = Object.assign({}, this, { encoding, data }); | ||
| // RSL1e, RTL6i3: fields whose value is null are not sent to Ably | ||
| for (const key in result) { |
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Spec only specify omitting null values for data and name fields. I don't think we should do this for all fields
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Good catch, narrowed to data and name in 838c658. The loop was dropping every null field, which goes beyond what RSL1e and RTL6i3 say. Also rebased onto main, since it had fallen behind.
wireToJSON copied every own property verbatim, so JSON.stringify emitted "data": null / "name": null instead of omitting those keys as the spec requires (the msgpack encoder already dropped them via sparse encoding). Strip null/undefined top-level fields from the serialized object, and skip encryption for a null data payload so encrypted channels do not send ciphertext of the literal string 'null'. Un-skip the corresponding UTS tests and remove the deviations.md entry. Fixes ably#2199
The wireToJSON loop dropped every null field. RSL1e and RTL6i3 only cover data and name, so narrow it to those two rather than guessing at the rest.
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In `@src/common/lib/types/basemessage.ts`:
- Around line 65-74: Update the null-data branch of encrypt so it clears
msg.encoding before returning the message, while preserving the existing
no-payload behavior for msg.data == null. Leave the encryptData path unchanged
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| async function encrypt<T extends BaseMessage>(msg: T, cipherOptions: EncryptedChannelOptions): Promise<T> { | ||
| if (msg.data == null) { | ||
| // no payload to encrypt; the null data field is omitted on the wire | ||
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| const { data, encoding } = await encryptData(msg.data, msg.encoding, cipherOptions); | ||
| msg.data = data; | ||
| msg.encoding = encoding; |
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Clear the encoding when no data is present. A caller can publish { data: null, encoding: 'json' } on an encrypted channel. encodeData preserves both fields, and encrypt returns the message unchanged. wireToJSON then removes data but retains encoding. The receiver processes JSON.parse(undefined) and reports a decoding error. Set msg.encoding to undefined before returning from the null-data branch.
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In `@src/common/lib/types/basemessage.ts` around lines 65 - 74, Update the
null-data branch of encrypt so it clears msg.encoding before returning the
message, while preserving the existing no-payload behavior for msg.data == null.
Leave the encryptData path unchanged for messages containing data.
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Message fields whose value is null are sent to Ably rather than omitted, against RSL1e and RTL6i3.
wireToJSONinsrc/common/lib/types/basemessage.tsbuilt the wire object withObject.assign,which copies every own property including the null ones. This deletes keys whose value is null or
undefined before returning, so an unset field is absent from the payload rather than present and
null.
encryptneeded a matching guard. It calledencryptData(msg.data, ...)unconditionally, so amessage with no payload had its null data encrypted into a non-null value and then travelled as an
encrypted empty payload. It now returns the message untouched when there is nothing to encrypt, which
is what leaves the field absent for the JSON step above.
The deviations file drops the entries for the tests this makes pass.
Fixes #2199
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