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Closes #3063.

Reproduced before fixing

true   IfcWall
true   constructor
true   toString
true   valueOf
true   hasOwnProperty
true   __proto__
true   isPrototypeOf
false  NotARealType

normalized in SCHEMA_REGISTRY.entities walks the prototype chain, so every Object.prototype member reports as a known IFC entity — while a plainly wrong name is correctly rejected. The guard is confidently right about garbage and confidently wrong about a specific class of garbage nobody thought to try.

Why it is worth fixing rather than shrugging at

This is the authoring guard: callers use it to decide whether a type name a user supplied is real. And normalizeIfcTypeName('constructor') returns "Object" — so accepting constructor hands the next stage a name that is not an entity at all, rather than failing at the boundary where the bad input entered.

Fixed at the source, and it had spread

packages/codegen/src/typescript-generator.ts emits this function, and the same one-line defect had propagated to all three generated registries: packages/parser, packages/codegen/generated/ifc4, and .../ifc4x3. Fixing only the generated file the parser ships would have left the generator ready to reintroduce it.

Object.hasOwn is already used in 11 places in this repo, so this needs no new compatibility baseline.

The test pins both directions

A one-directional assertion here is satisfied by hard-coding false. So it asserts 12 inherited names are rejected and that IfcWall, IFCWALL and IfcDoor are still accepted.

Mutation run rather than reasoned about:

with the fix          14 passed
reverted to `in`      12 failed, 2 passed

The 2 that survive are exactly the accept-real-entities pair, which is what should survive. If they had failed too, the test would be pinning "reject everything".

Credit

Found by a reviewer while working on #3009, who deliberately did not start the fix because the generated file says DO NOT EDIT and the real change belongs in the generator. That was the right call and it is why this PR touches the generator first.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented inherited object properties such as constructor, toString, and __proto__ from being incorrectly recognized as valid schema entities or type names.
    • Corrected entity metadata and type ID validation for unknown names.
    • Preserved correct handling of valid concrete and abstract types.
  • Tests

    • Added regression coverage for schema guards, entity detection, metadata lookup, and type ID resolution.

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The codegen registry now rejects inherited Object.prototype names. Entity recognition delegates to metadata lookup. Parser and codegen tests cover invalid inherited names, valid type IDs, normalization, and abstract entities. A changeset records patch releases for both packages.

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Prototype-safe registry lookups

Layer / File(s) Summary
Registry guard updates
packages/codegen/src/type-ids-generator.ts, packages/codegen/src/typescript-generator.ts, .changeset/known-entity-prototype-chain.md
Registry lookups now require own properties. isKnownEntity delegates to getEntityMetadata.
Prototype guard regression coverage
packages/codegen/test/typescript-generator-mapping.test.ts, packages/parser/src/ifc-schema.prototype-guard.test.ts
Tests reject inherited names such as constructor, toString, hasOwnProperty, and __proto__. Tests also preserve valid type IDs, normalization, and abstract-entity behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 595aa

The change correctly narrows known-entity checks to real IFC entities while preserving valid names, but the regression rationale and release note describe the affected public guards inconsistently. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on that documentation mismatch.

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A rabbit checked the schema gate,
And blocked false names at the plate.
“No prototype tricks,” said the hare,
“Valid types still pass with care.”
The registry now knows what is there.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes fix generator-level prototype-chain lookups, guard metadata and type IDs, and add regression tests for inherited names and valid entities in issue #3063.
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This PR has node_modules committed as a symlink, and it is what the four red lanes are.

node_modules  +1 -0
type:   symlink
target: /Users/louistrue/Development/ifc-lite/node_modules
size:   50

An absolute path to one machine, in the tree. pnpm install then dies with ENOTDIR: not a directory, mkdir .../node_modules, which is why Build + WASM + Rust + Node, Build packages + WASM, Content matching vs a known correspondence and the benchmark are failing rather than anything in the actual diff.

git rm --cached node_modules and re-push clears it.

Why it slips through, since the cause is not carelessness: .gitignore line 1 is node_modules/ with a trailing slash, which matches directories only — a symlink of that name is not ignored, so git add -A stages it without complaint. And it is invisible locally, because git will not replace an existing directory with a symlink on checkout, so a working tree that already has the real thing looks fine. Only CI and a fresh clone see it.

Dropping the trailing slash in .gitignore is the durable fix.

On the change itself — this supersedes what I had, and it is the better fix

I filed #3063 and had a local branch guarding at the barrel: re-exporting a wrapped isKnownEntity and getEntityMetadata from ifc-schema.ts. I am dropping it in favour of this, because fixing the generator is what my own review told me to do and I wrongly concluded I could not — I searched scripts/ and packages/*/scripts and reported that the generator was not in the repo. It is, at packages/codegen/src/typescript-generator.ts.

The difference is not stylistic. A barrel wrapper covers the two functions someone thought to wrap; fixing the emitter covers isInstantiable, normalizeIfcTypeName and getTypeId as well, and both checked-in generated copies. Three of those were still broken in mine.

One thing worth keeping in the body, since it is the sharpest framing of the defect: the guard is confidently right about garbage and confidently wrong about a specific class of garbage nobody thought to try. NotARealType is rejected correctly, which is exactly what makes the failure invisible.

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Correcting my comment above: this was already fixed before I posted it. I was reading a stale snapshot.

Verified on the current head 5579c0de:

node_modules entries in tree: 0
checks: 6 pass, 4 pending, 0 fail

So the four red lanes I described were from an earlier head and are gone. Leaving the original comment rather than deleting it, because the mechanism is worth having on the record — .gitignore's node_modules/ matches directories only, so a symlink of that name is staged by git add -A without complaint, and git will not replace an existing directory with a symlink on checkout, so nothing looks wrong locally and only CI and fresh clones see it.

But the diagnosis of this PR's current state was wrong, and a stale-red report reads exactly like a live one. I should have re-fetched the head before writing rather than after.

Everything I said about the change itself stands: fixing the emitter rather than wrapping at the barrel is the right depth, and it covers isInstantiable, normalizeIfcTypeName and getTypeId which a wrapper would have left broken.

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69-69: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add inherited-name coverage to the direct generator test. The test executes generateTypeIds and checks valid IDs, but it does not check constructor, toString, hasOwnProperty, or __proto__. Add assertions that getTypeId returns undefined for these names.

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In `@packages/codegen/src/type-ids-generator.ts` at line 69, Add direct generator
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undefined for constructor, toString, hasOwnProperty, and __proto__, while
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- Around line 19-27: Update the pre-fix impact narrative in
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the actual isKnownType('constructor') result and revise the explanation
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Comment on lines +19 to +27
* isKnownType('constructor') false (was already false)
* isInstantiable('constructor') TRUE <- the authoring guard
* normalizeIfcTypeName('constructor') "Object"
* normalizeIfcTypeName('__proto__') undefined, from a `: string` signature
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* isInstantiable is the one that matters. Its own docblock says it exists so
* authoring code cannot write an abstract class into an exported file, and it
* was the weaker of the two: it said yes to `constructor` while isKnownType,
* the guard that reads as looser, correctly said no.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Align the pre-fix impact narrative in both changed files.

The two files describe the affected public guards inconsistently.

  • packages/parser/src/ifc-schema.prototype-guard.test.ts#L19-L27: document the actual pre-fix result for isKnownType('constructor') and update the explanation.
  • .changeset/known-entity-prototype-chain.md#L6-L23: replace “three exported guards” with the exact affected exports and their pre-fix results.
📍 Affects 2 files
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  • .changeset/known-entity-prototype-chain.md#L6-L23
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Correcting a claim in the PR description and recording what review changed.

The PR body says Object.hasOwn is "already used in 11 places in this repo". That is backwards. Census:

Object.hasOwn(              0 production call sites
hasOwnProperty.call         11 production call sites

The only prior mention of Object.hasOwn is a doc comment in packages/sdk/src/types.ts:836 whose own code six lines below uses hasOwnProperty.call. So the fix now uses Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call, matching the majority and specifically packages/export/src/select-qualification.ts:33,37, which already guards SCHEMA_REGISTRY.selects and .types that way.

The fix moved deeper. It originally guarded isKnownEntity, which is the function #3063 names. That is the weaker of the two guards. Proven by running it on the branch, before the change:

name          isKnownEntity  hasMetadata  isKnownType  isInstantiable  normalize
IfcWall       true           true         true         true            "IfcWall"
constructor   false          true         false        TRUE            "Object"
__proto__     false          true         false        TRUE            undefined
NotARealType  false          false        false        false           "NotARealType"

getEntityMetadata had the same defect via bracket access, and it feeds isInstantiable and normalizeIfcTypeName. So isInstantiable('constructor') was still true after my first fix, and its docblock says it exists to stop authoring code writing an abstract class into an exported file. normalizeIfcTypeName('constructor') still returned "Object", which is the exact string this PR's changeset cites as the reason the bug matters. normalizeIfcTypeName('__proto__') returned undefined from a signature declaring string.

Fixed at getEntityMetadata, which subsumes all of it. isKnownEntity delegates now.

The same generator emits a second registry with the same defect, also fixed here: getTypeId('constructor') returned the Object constructor from a number | undefined signature.

That one is worth naming for how it stayed hidden. The comment I added said "Every lookup below must be an own-property check (#3063)" — true of the lines beneath it, phrased as a general rule. A comment like that does not merely fail to help, it stops the next reader looking. Worse than no comment.

Regression moved to where it binds the generator. My first test checked one of three committed copies, and there is no drift gate between the generator and its output, so a regeneration reintroducing the bug would have left it green. It now lives in typescript-generator-mapping.test.ts, which executes the emitted text. A second test in the parser pins the damage (isInstantiable, normalizeIfcTypeName) rather than the mechanism.

Mutations run, not reasoned about:

remove the getEntityMetadata guard   generator 4/25 fail, parser 10/14 fail
remove the getTypeId guard           parser 4/19 fail

The parser survivors are the positive controls, which is what should survive.

Deferred and now handled separately: packages/export/src/step-serialization.ts:37 reads SCHEMA_REGISTRY.types unguarded, so resolveExpressBase('constructor') throws TypeError: underlying.replace is not a function where its contract says it returns null. Different package, so it gets its own PR rather than widening this diff.

Also split out: the .gitignore fix for the node_modules symlink that broke this PR's CI twice. It is a repo-wide ignore change and deserves its own review.

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We have duplicated each other here, and yours is the one that should land — it covers a generator mine misses.

I flagged on #3063 about twenty minutes ago that a fix was in flight on the #3009 branch; that clearly crossed with your work rather than reaching you in time, and the overlap is mine to unwind rather than yours.

Where they overlap, and where yours is strictly better

Both touch packages/codegen/src/typescript-generator.ts, both regenerated schema-registry.ts for ifc4/ifc4x3 and the parser copy, and both touch typescript-generator-mapping.test.ts.

Yours additionally fixes type-ids-generator.ts and the three type-ids.ts outputs. Mine does not, and should have. I traced the leak to isKnownEntity's in and getEntityMetadata's indexed read, fixed the template that emits those, and stopped — without checking whether a second generator in the same package had the same shape. That is the "grep for the same shape" step, skipped.

So this is not two equivalent fixes where the tiebreak is who was first. Yours is more complete.

What I will do

Strip the codegen and parser half out of #3009 and leave it as what its title says — the ofType oracle widening, plus the trim-asymmetry Major you confirmed at ifc-query.ts:136. That half is genuinely separate: it is about ofType accepting names it cannot honour, and it does not need the prototype fix to stand.

If you would rather I close #3009 entirely and re-raise the query half on a fresh branch after this lands, say so — that is cleaner if the diffs conflict, and I do not mind which.

One thing from my side worth folding in, if it is not already covered

The reachability, since #3063 framed it as SDK-side. ofType("constructor") did not throw or return empty — it passed the guard, mapped to Unknown, and returned the entire Unknown bucket. So the query surface made it a wrong-answer bug rather than only a type-predicate wart.

addEntity was never exposed: StoreEditor.addEntity applies /^[Ii][Ff][Cc][A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*$/ before the normalizer (packages/mutations/src/store-editor.ts:125), and no prototype member name starts with Ifc. But isInstantiable was — it answered true for all six through the same getEntityMetadata path.

If your branch already pins isInstantiable, ignore this; if not, it is a two-line addition to ifc-schema.prototype-guard.test.ts and worth having, since that is the one public predicate the regex did not shield.

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BIMvoice added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
#3069 fixes the same `in`-walks-the-prototype-chain hole this branch had
started fixing, and covers a generator this branch missed:
`type-ids-generator.ts` and the three `type-ids.ts` outputs, where
`getTypeId('constructor')` handed back the `Object` constructor. It also
pins `isInstantiable`, the authoring guard the defect actually reached.
One fix, in one place, is better than two that must be kept in step.

Reverted here, back to the committed artifact byte for byte:

  packages/codegen/src/typescript-generator.ts
  packages/codegen/generated/ifc4/schema-registry.ts
  packages/codegen/generated/ifc4x3/schema-registry.ts
  packages/parser/src/generated/schema-registry.ts
  packages/codegen/test/typescript-generator-mapping.test.ts

The two generated registries were REgenerated (`generate:ifc4`,
`generate:ifc4x3`) rather than hand-edited, and the parser's copy taken
from the regenerated IFC4 output; all three are identical to main.

Verified rather than assumed, that #3069 subsumes what is removed: this
branch's generator test (the one deleted here) passes unchanged against
#3069's `typescript-generator.ts` (22/22), and this branch's parser test
passes against #3069's generated registry (18/18).

What this branch now depends on
-------------------------------

`ofType()`'s oracle is `isKnownType`, and `isKnownType`'s pin fallback is
`isKnownEntity` — the function #3069 fixes. So the prototype-name cases
here do not pass on current main:

  packages/query/test/oftype-unknown-type.test.ts   7 failing
  packages/parser/test/known-type-across-schemas.test.ts  2 failing

They are kept, not weakened and not moved: #3069 pins the predicate,
while these pin that the defect no longer reaches `ofType()` and
`getEntityMetadata`'s callers, which is this branch's boundary. This
branch therefore needs #3069 to land first. The changeset and the three
comments now say so instead of claiming the fix.
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Unwound from my side — #3009 is stripped back to the query half (999bc6c62), and the codegen files plus both generated registries there are now byte-identical to main. The registries were regenerated rather than hand-edited, since they are committed artifacts. Yours is the only fix for the prototype hole now.

I verified the subsumption empirically before removing anything, rather than comparing filenames: our codegen test unmodified against your typescript-generator.ts passes 22/22, and our parser test against your generated registry passes 18/18. Your getEntityMetadata guard covers the derived helpers ours asserted on — getAllAttributesForEntity, getInheritanceChainForEntity — because both route through it.

And my offer about isInstantiable is withdrawn as unnecessary: it is already the centrepiece of ifc-schema.prototype-guard.test.ts, with both-direction controls. I should have read your branch before offering.

Your branch has grown past mine twice over since. 9fabaa223 guarding getEntityMetadata rather than only isKnownEntity, and 5579c0def finding getTypeId had the same defect — that third one is a site neither my fix nor my review of my own fix reached. Three generators with one shape, and I stopped at one.

One consequence worth knowing: #3009's CI is now red until this merges, by design. Its remaining tests assert that the defect no longer reaches ofType()'s boundary — 7 failures in oftype-unknown-type.test.ts and 2 in known-type-across-schemas.test.ts against current main. With your generated registry applied locally, both suites are fully green (parser 624 passed / 2 skipped, query 218/218).

I kept those assertions rather than moving them into your PR because they pin a different thing: yours pins the predicate, ours pins that a padded or prototype name cannot reach the Unknown bucket and return wrong entities. Happy to reorder if you would rather land them together.

…embers

Reported as #3063 by a reviewer working on a different PR.

`normalized in SCHEMA_REGISTRY.entities` walks the prototype chain, so the
guard answered TRUE for constructor, toString, toLocaleString, valueOf,
hasOwnProperty, isPrototypeOf, propertyIsEnumerable, __proto__ and the four
__define/__lookup accessors. Reproduced before fixing:

  true   IfcWall
  true   constructor
  true   __proto__
  false  NotARealType

This is the authoring guard callers use to decide whether a user-supplied
type name is real, and `normalizeIfcTypeName('constructor')` returns
"Object", so accepting it hands the next stage a name that is not an entity.

Fixed at the source: packages/codegen/src/typescript-generator.ts emits this
function, and the same one-line defect had propagated to all THREE generated
registries (parser, codegen ifc4, codegen ifc4x3). Object.hasOwn is already
used in 11 places in this repo, so it needs no new baseline.

The test pins both directions, because a one-directional assertion here is
satisfied by hard-coding false: 12 inherited names must be rejected AND
IfcWall/IFCWALL/IfcDoor must still be accepted. Mutation run rather than
reasoned: reverting to `in` fails 12 of 14, and the 2 that survive are
exactly the accept-real-entities pair that should.
…teral

The comment I added to the generated isKnownEntity wrote `in` with
backticks. That block is inside the template literal the generator emits,
so the first backtick closed the literal and everything after it became
real TypeScript:

  src/typescript-generator.ts(497,9): error TS2322:
  Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'object'.

Reworded to "the 'in' operator" in the generator and in all three
generated copies, so the emitted text and the committed files stay
identical.

I missed this because I verified with the parser test and never built the
package whose source I had edited. tsc on packages/codegen is the scope
CI uses, and it is the only scope that could have caught it.
…ust the dir

Every job on this PR died at `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile`:

    ENOTDIR: not a directory, mkdir '/home/runner/work/ifc-lite/ifc-lite/node_modules'
    Process completed with exit code 236

I symlinked node_modules into a worktree to run tsc, then committed it with
`git add -A`. pnpm then cannot create the real directory because a symlink
of that name is in the way.

The reason git took it is the ignore rule, and it is worth fixing rather
than just deleting the file. `.gitignore` line 1 was:

    node_modules/

A trailing slash matches directories ONLY. A symlink named `node_modules`
is not a directory, so the rule did not apply to it and `git add -A`
staged it without complaint. Dropping the slash matches both. Verified by
running it rather than reasoning about it:

    $ ln -s /tmp node_modules
    $ git check-ignore -v node_modules
    .gitignore:1:node_modules	node_modules

before the change the same command reported nothing.

This is the trap that makes it dangerous: the symlink is invisible to
anyone whose node_modules is a real directory, because git will not
overwrite an existing directory with a symlink on checkout. It only bites
CI and fresh clones, which is where it is most expensive.
Review found that I fixed the guard the issue named and left the identical
defect three lines above it, which is the one that actually matters.

`SCHEMA_REGISTRY.entities` is a plain object literal, so `obj[key]` reaches
Object.prototype exactly as `in` does. Proven by running it on this branch
before the change:

    name          isKnownEntity  hasMetadata  isKnownType  isInstantiable  normalize
    IfcWall       true           true         true         true            "IfcWall"
    constructor   false          true         false        TRUE            "Object"
    toString      false          true         false        TRUE            "toString"
    __proto__     false          true         false        TRUE            undefined
    NotARealType  false          false        false        false           "NotARealType"

So my first commit fixed the WEAKER guard. `isInstantiable` is the one whose
docblock says it belongs at the authoring boundary and exists to stop code
writing `#N=IFCPRODUCT(...)` into an exported file, and it still said yes to
`constructor`. `normalizeIfcTypeName('constructor')` still returned "Object",
which is the exact string my own changeset cited as the reason the bug was
worth fixing. And `normalizeIfcTypeName('__proto__')` returned undefined from
a signature declaring `string`, a type lie reaching a published API.

Fixed at `getEntityMetadata` instead, which subsumes all of it. `isKnownEntity`
now delegates rather than repeating the lookup.

Spelling: `Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call`, matching the 11 production
call sites in this repo and specifically `export/src/select-qualification.ts`,
which already guards `SCHEMA_REGISTRY.selects` and `.types` this way. My PR
body claimed `Object.hasOwn` was "already used in 11 places". That was
backwards: it has zero production uses. Corrected on the PR.

The regression now binds the GENERATOR, in typescript-generator-mapping.test.ts,
which executes the emitted text. My first test checked one of the three
committed copies, and there is no drift gate between the generator and its
output, so a regeneration reintroducing the bug would have left it green.

A second test in the parser pins the DAMAGE rather than the mechanism:
isInstantiable, isKnownType and normalizeIfcTypeName are what callers hold,
and the generator test cannot see which of them the defect reached. Both carry
positive controls, because a suite of "rejects X" is satisfied by returning
false for everything.

Mutation run, not reasoned about. Removing the guard:

    generator test   4 of 25 fail
    parser test     10 of 14 fail

The 4 parser survivors are the positive controls, which is what should survive.

Also moved the 4-line explanation out of the emitted text. It described `in`,
which is no longer there, in three files stamped DO NOT EDIT, and its backticks
are what closed the template literal and broke the build. The generator source
now carries one note above the emitting statement, outside the literal, saying
both why a backtick is fatal there and why every lookup must be own-property.

The .gitignore fix is split out to its own PR. It is a repo-wide ignore change
and would get no real review inside a codegen bug fix.
…mplied was covered

Review found the sibling registry this generator also emits has the identical
#3063 defect, and that the note I added made it less likely anyone would look.

`type-ids-generator.ts:69` does `(TYPE_IDS as Record<string, number>)[normalized]`
on a plain object literal. Proven by running the committed output:

    IfcWall        number     2391406946
    constructor    function   function Object() { [native code] }
    toString       function   function toString() { [native code] }
    __proto__      object     [object Object]
    NotARealType   undefined  undefined

A function returned from a signature declaring `number | undefined`, which is
the same type lie the changeset already cites for normalizeIfcTypeName.

The comment I put in typescript-generator.ts says "Every lookup below must be
an own-property check (#3063)". That is true of the lines below it and false as
the general claim it reads like, and a reader who trusts it stops looking. This
is exactly the shape I have been flagging in other people's PRs this week.

Guarded, and pinned with the assertion written to survive the obvious weakening:
`expect(id).toBeUndefined()` alone would pass for the wrong reason if the return
type were ever loosened, so the test also asserts the value is not a function.

Mutation run: removing the guard fails 4 of 19.

The `id`-keyed lookups in the same file (`getTypeName`, `isValidTypeId`) are
safe and deliberately left alone. A number stringifies to a key like "123",
which cannot collide with an Object.prototype member name.

Deferred, not fixed here: `packages/export/src/step-serialization.ts:37` reads
`SCHEMA_REGISTRY.types` unguarded, so `resolveExpressBase('constructor')` throws
`TypeError: underlying.replace is not a function` where its contract says it
returns null for an unknown type, and it is reachable through the exported
`serializeTypedMarker`. Real, and a different package this PR does not touch.
Its own PR.
CodeRabbit, correctly: the changeset said `getEntityMetadata` "made three
exported guards wrong" and then listed three symptoms across two guards.
`isKnownType('constructor')` was already false before the fix and is
unchanged.

Overcounting the blast radius of your own fix is the same defect as
understating it. Both are a claim about scope that nobody checks, and this
one is in the file that becomes the release note.

The test's own table already said "(was already false)", so the two
narratives disagreed. Naming it explicitly is worth more than dropping it:
the guard that READS as looser was the one answering correctly, and the one
documented as the strict authoring boundary was the one letting it through.
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On the CodeRabbit Minor about aligning the pre-fix narrative: rejected, with evidence. Checked against 595aa9a1a, which is both the current head and the commit the comment was filed against, so this is not staleness on either side.

The quoted text is not in the file. The finding asks to replace "three exported guards" in the changeset. The changeset says:

the `Object` constructor. Two exported guards were wrong as a result:

grep -in "three" .changeset/known-entity-prototype-chain.md returns nothing.

And the two files already agree on the pre-fix result of isKnownType.

Test docblock, lines 19-27:

 *   isKnownType('constructor')           false   (was already false)

Changeset:

isKnownType('constructor') was already false and is unchanged. It is worth naming, because the guard that reads as looser was the one answering correctly, and the guard documented as the strict authoring boundary was the one letting it through.

Same result, same emphasis, stated in both places on purpose.

Where I think the miscount comes from, since it is a reasonable thing to trip on. The docblock lists four rows and the changeset names two guards. Those are consistent because rows are not exports:

row export wrong before?
isKnownType('constructor') isKnownType no, already false
isInstantiable('constructor') isInstantiable yes
normalizeIfcTypeName('constructor') normalizeIfcTypeName yes
normalizeIfcTypeName('__proto__') normalizeIfcTypeName yes, same export

Two exports were wrong. normalizeIfcTypeName gets two rows because it fails two different ways, and __proto__ is the one that matters: it returns undefined from a signature declaring string, so it is a type lie rather than a wrong answer.

I am rejecting rather than editing because the finding names a specific string to replace and that string does not exist, so acting on it would mean inventing a change to satisfy a comment. That is the one outcome worse than leaving it.

Worth saying that I am not rejecting this lightly. The nearby history is against me: an earlier version of this PR fixed isKnownEntity rather than getEntityMetadata, which is the guard the issue named rather than the one underneath, and a comment I wrote in this same area was true locally and phrased generally enough to hide the identical defect in the sibling generator. Both were caught. So a review comment about my prose in this file has a good prior, which is why I checked the literal text before answering rather than after.

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…ANGELOG

The changeset carried "Depends on #3069 ..., which must land first" plus a
paragraph explaining the prototype-chain bug in another package.

That is an internal merge-ordering constraint. It goes verbatim into
@ifc-lite/query's published CHANGELOG and npm release notes, where a consumer
cannot act on it and it describes a defect in a package they may not use.

It is also stale: #3069 merged as f449776, so the dependency is satisfied.

The consumer-facing content is unchanged -- what throws now, what still
resolves, why the major bump, and the error text.
louistrue added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 23, 2026
… types the enum table omits (#3009)

* fix(query): reject an unrecognized IFC type name in ofType() instead of matching Unknown

IfcTypeEnumFromString falls back to IfcTypeEnum.Unknown for any type name it
does not recognize, so a caller's typo (ofType('IfcWal')) or a vendor-specific
type silently queried the Unknown bucket — every entity whose type the store
itself could not classify — instead of returning nothing. ofType() now throws
for an unrecognized name; the Unknown bucket is still reachable by passing the
literal string 'Unknown'.

* fix(query): let standard-but-unmapped IFC types through ofType()'s guard

The guard added in 33bda64 rejected every type string that mapped to
IfcTypeEnum.Unknown. TYPE_STRING_TO_ENUM (packages/data/src/types.ts) is a
curated subset of IFC, not the whole schema, so that rule also rejected
standard buildingSMART types the table simply has no row for - IfcChiller,
IfcActuator, IfcElectricAppliance, IfcBuildingSystem, IfcAudioVisualAppliance
among them. Querying those returned the Unknown bucket before, which answers
correctly in a file whose only unclassified entities are of that type; the
guard turned that working query into a throw with no disclosure.

Key the check on IFC_ENTITY_NAMES instead - the ~880-entry IFC4X3 entity-name
table already exported from @ifc-lite/data. A string that is not an IFC entity
name at all ('IfcWal') still throws; a real IFC name the enum table does not
map falls through to Unknown exactly as before. 'Unknown' stays reachable by
its literal string.

RED: with the previous condition restored, the six new expectations covering
the five standard types plus casing/whitespace fail; they pass with this one.
packages/query 177 -> 185 pass, packages/data 148 pass, both 0 fail.

The changeset is corrected from patch to major and now states the actual
breaking case: a name that is not an IFC entity name - a typo, or a genuine
vendor-specific type name - previously returned an EntityQuery over the
Unknown bucket and now throws. @ifc-lite/query is 1.x, and this is a
behaviour change on a published SDK export.

* fix(query): widen ofType()'s oracle to every schema the parser reads

The guard added in this PR keyed on `IFC_ENTITY_NAMES`, which is the
hand-maintained IFC4X3-only display-name table - not a schema oracle. It
therefore rejected correctly spelled names that real files carry:

    THROWS IfcDoorStyle
    THROWS IfcWindowStyle
    THROWS IfcWallElementedCase
    THROWS IfcSlabElementedCase
    THROWS IfcPresentationStyleAssignment
    THROWS IfcBuildingElement
    THROWS IfcBuildingElementType

`IfcDoorStyle` and `IfcWindowStyle` are how IFC2X3 files carry door and
window typing, and IFC2X3 is a schema this parser reads - so the exact
case the changeset promised to preserve for `IfcChiller` was broken for
them, with an error telling the user to fix a spelling that was right.

Key the check on `isKnownType` (@ifc-lite/parser) instead: the bundled
IFC2X3 + IFC4 + IFC4X3 schema union, minus EXPRESS defined types, with
the IFC4_ADD2_TC1 codegen pin as a fallback. It is the predicate that
already guards @ifc-lite/sdk's `addEntity` against the same class of bug
(#2003), so this reuses one source of truth rather than growing a second
name table that would drift.

`isKnownType` deliberately does not resolve `ENTITY_NAME_ALIASES`,
because it doubles as a name canonicalizer. A pure known-ness question
does want that table - it lists names real STEP files carry that the
bundled EXPRESS exports omit - so the guard consults it too. That covers
IFC2X3's `IfcElectricalDistributionPoint`, a further instance of the
same defect the reported table did not reach.

`IfcWal` - the typo the guard exists for - still throws, as do vendor
names, bare `Wall`, the empty string and EXPRESS defined types
(`IfcLengthMeasure`, `IfcArcIndex`).

Tests: replace the five hand-picked names, all of which happened to sit
in `IFC_ENTITY_NAMES` and so could not see this, with exhaustive sweeps.
Every entity in the parser's `SCHEMA_REGISTRY` and in each of the three
per-version tables must pass `ofType()`. Against the old predicate the
registry, IFC2X3 and IFC4 sweeps fail while the IFC4X3 sweep passes -
which is the "IFC4X3-only oracle" diagnosis, isolated. The rejection
direction is asserted alongside, and pinned to the same oracle, so a
future change that made the guard a no-op fails rather than passing the
sweeps.

Error text no longer blames spelling alone: a rejected name may be
spelled correctly and simply be vendor-specific, so it names the schemas
searched and points at `'Unknown'`.

* fix(parser,codegen): stop the schema registry answering for Object.prototype

`isKnownType` is the oracle this PR moved `ofType()` onto, and it accepted
every member name of `Object.prototype`:

    isKnownType('constructor')    -> true
    isKnownType('toString')       -> true
    isKnownType('valueOf')        -> true
    isKnownType('hasOwnProperty') -> true
    isKnownType('__proto__')      -> true
    isKnownType('isPrototypeOf')  -> true
    isKnownType('NotAThing')      -> false

`isKnownType`'s own union lookup is a `Map` and was never exposed. The pin
fallback is: `isKnownEntity` asked `normalized in SCHEMA_REGISTRY.entities`,
and `in` walks the prototype chain, so the emitted object literal answered
for its inherited members. `getEntityMetadata` indexed the same literal two
functions up and returned `Object.prototype.toString` — a `Function` — typed
as `EntityMetadata`.

Blast radius, measured end to end rather than assumed: `ofType('constructor')`
did not throw and did not return empty. It passed the guard, mapped to
`IfcTypeEnum.Unknown` and returned the whole Unknown bucket — the silent
wrong answer this PR exists to stop, reachable from any untrusted string.
`@ifc-lite/sdk`'s `addEntity` shares the predicate but was not exposed: its
`/^[Ii][Ff][Cc].../` shape check runs before the normalizer, and no
`Object.prototype` member name starts with `Ifc`. `isInstantiable` did answer
`true` for them, via the same `getEntityMetadata`.

This is a regression of the widening, not an inherited wart: the revision
this PR shipped first keyed on `IFC_ENTITY_NAMES[t.trim().toUpperCase()]` and
rejected all six. The PR body credits the wrong mechanism, though — an
indexed-value check reaches `Object.prototype` exactly as `in` does
(`IFC_ENTITY_NAMES['toString']` is a function). What protected it was the
`toUpperCase()`: `'CONSTRUCTOR'` is not a prototype member name.

Fixed at the codegen template that emits both functions, not at the
`ofType()` call site and not in `isKnownType`'s wrapper, because
`isKnownEntity` and `getEntityMetadata` are themselves public exports of
`@ifc-lite/parser` — patching a caller would leave the predicate wrong for
everyone else. `Object.hasOwn` in both, so it is structural rather than a
denylist of prototype member names, and fixing the generator means a
regeneration cannot bring it back. The three committed generated registries
are updated to match byte for byte.

RED with the production change reverted and the tests kept: parser 2 failed,
query 7 failed, codegen 1 failed. GREEN: query 207 -> 214, parser 622 -> 624,
codegen 117 -> 118; sdk 182, mutations 202, data 153 all unchanged. The
exhaustive sweeps this PR added — the parser `SCHEMA_REGISTRY` and all three
per-version entity tables through `ofType()` — still pass, so the fix rejects
nothing legitimate. `NotAThing` rides along as the control in every list.

`pnpm exec tsc --noEmit`, oxlint, check-changesets and check:api-surface
(4212 exports, unchanged) all pass.

* fix(query): trim ofType()'s name once, so the guard and the resolution agree

`IfcTypeEnumFromString` only uppercases. The guard added in this PR trims
before asking `isKnownType`, so for a padded `ofType(' IfcWall ')` the two
steps disagreed: the lookup missed `TYPE_STRING_TO_ENUM` and yielded
`Unknown`, the guard trimmed, found `IfcWall` known, and did not throw. The
query then ran against the Unknown bucket and returned entities that are not
walls, with no error at all — the guard affirming the name is real while the
resolution ignored it.

Trim once at the top and feed the trimmed name to both steps. For a name with
no surrounding whitespace `trim()` is the identity, so nothing that resolved
correctly before resolves differently now.

The regression test has to use a name the enum table DOES map, padded:
' IfcDoorStyle ' resolves to Unknown on both paths for its own reasons and so
would pass with the defect present.

Also in the same suite:

- The exhaustive sweeps caught every error with a bare `catch { return true }`,
  which cannot tell a wrong-name rejection from an unrelated crash — it reports
  a name as "rejected by the guard" for a run in which the guard was never
  reached. `namesRejectedByGuard` now rethrows anything that is not the guard's
  own error, so the failure names the real cause.
- The eight unchecked `as any` store casts become one documented widening,
  `queryFor`, keeping the mock's shape type-checked against `IfcStoreBase`.

* revert(codegen,parser): hand the prototype-chain fix back to #3069

#3069 fixes the same `in`-walks-the-prototype-chain hole this branch had
started fixing, and covers a generator this branch missed:
`type-ids-generator.ts` and the three `type-ids.ts` outputs, where
`getTypeId('constructor')` handed back the `Object` constructor. It also
pins `isInstantiable`, the authoring guard the defect actually reached.
One fix, in one place, is better than two that must be kept in step.

Reverted here, back to the committed artifact byte for byte:

  packages/codegen/src/typescript-generator.ts
  packages/codegen/generated/ifc4/schema-registry.ts
  packages/codegen/generated/ifc4x3/schema-registry.ts
  packages/parser/src/generated/schema-registry.ts
  packages/codegen/test/typescript-generator-mapping.test.ts

The two generated registries were REgenerated (`generate:ifc4`,
`generate:ifc4x3`) rather than hand-edited, and the parser's copy taken
from the regenerated IFC4 output; all three are identical to main.

Verified rather than assumed, that #3069 subsumes what is removed: this
branch's generator test (the one deleted here) passes unchanged against
#3069's `typescript-generator.ts` (22/22), and this branch's parser test
passes against #3069's generated registry (18/18).

What this branch now depends on
-------------------------------

`ofType()`'s oracle is `isKnownType`, and `isKnownType`'s pin fallback is
`isKnownEntity` — the function #3069 fixes. So the prototype-name cases
here do not pass on current main:

  packages/query/test/oftype-unknown-type.test.ts   7 failing
  packages/parser/test/known-type-across-schemas.test.ts  2 failing

They are kept, not weakened and not moved: #3069 pins the predicate,
while these pin that the defect no longer reaches `ofType()` and
`getEntityMetadata`'s callers, which is this branch's boundary. This
branch therefore needs #3069 to land first. The changeset and the three
comments now say so instead of claiming the fix.

---------

Co-authored-by: Louis Trümpler <78563314+louistrue@users.noreply.github.com>
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