We had this annotation everywhere in app-server APIs which made it so
that fields get serialized as `field?: T`, meaning if the field as
`None` we would omit the field in the payload. Removing this annotation
changes it so that we return `field: T | null` instead, which makes
codex app-server's API more aligned with the convention of public OpenAI
APIs like Responses.
Separately, remove the `#[ts(optional_fields = nullable)]` annotations
that were recently added which made all the TS types become `field?: T |
null` which is not great since clients need to handle undefined and
null.
I think generally it'll be best to have optional types be either:
- `field: T | null` (preferred, aligned with public OpenAI APIs)
- `field?: T` where we have to, such as types generated from the MCP
schema:
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/blob/main/schema/2025-06-18/schema.ts
(see changes to `mcp-types/`)
I updated @etraut-openai's unit test to check that all generated TS
types are one or the other, not both (so will error if we have a type
that has `field?: T | null`). I don't think there's currently a good use
case for that - but we can always revisit.
This PR addresses a current hole in the TypeScript code generation for
the API server protocol. Fields that are marked as "Optional<>" in the
Rust code are serialized such that the value is omitted when it is
deserialized — appearing as `undefined`, but the TS type indicates
(incorrectly) that it is always defined but possibly `null`. This can
lead to subtle errors that the TypeScript compiler doesn't catch. The
fix is to include the `#[ts(optional_fields = nullable)]` macro for all
protocol structs that contain one or more `Optional<>` fields.
This PR also includes a new test that validates that all TS protocol
code containing "| null" in its type is marked optional ("?") to catch
cases where `#[ts(optional_fields = nullable)]` is omitted.
Follow-up to https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/5063
Refined the app-server export pipeline so JSON Schema variants and
discriminator fields are annotated with descriptive, stable titles
before writing the bundle. This eliminates anonymous enum names in the
generated Pydantic models (goodbye Type7) while keeping downstream
tooling simple. Added shared helpers to derive titles and literals, and
reused them across the traversal logic for clarity. Running just fix -p
codex-app-server-protocol, just fmt, and cargo test -p
codex-app-server-protocol validates the change.
Revert #5642 because this generates:
```
// GENERATED CODE! DO NOT MODIFY BY HAND!
// This file was generated by [ts-rs](https://github.com/Aleph-Alpha/ts-rs). Do not edit this file manually.
export type GetAccountResponse = Account | null;
```
But `Account` is unknown.
The unique use of `#[ts(export)]` on `GetAccountResponse` is also
suspicious as are the changes to
`codex-rs/app-server-protocol/src/export.rs` since the existing system
has worked fine for quite some time.
Though a pure backout of #5642 puts things in a state where, as the PR
noted, the following does not work:
```
cargo run -p codex-app-server-protocol --bin export -- --out DIR
```
So in addition to the backout, this PR adds:
```rust
#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug, Clone, PartialEq, JsonSchema, TS)]
#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
pub struct GetAccountResponse {
pub account: Account,
}
```
and changes `GetAccount.response` as follows:
```diff
- response: Option<Account>,
+ response: GetAccountResponse,
```
making it consistent with other types.
With this change, I verified that both of the following work:
```
just codex generate-ts --out /tmp/somewhere
cargo run -p codex-app-server-protocol --bin export -- --out /tmp/somewhere-else
```
The generated TypeScript is as follows:
```typescript
// GetAccountResponse.ts
import type { Account } from "./Account";
export type GetAccountResponse = { account: Account, };
```
and
```typescript
// Account.ts
import type { PlanType } from "./PlanType";
export type Account = { "type": "ApiKey", api_key: string, } | { "type": "chatgpt", email: string | null, plan_type: PlanType, };
```
Though while the inconsistency between `"type": "ApiKey"` and `"type":
"chatgpt"` is quite concerning, I'm not sure if that format is ever
written to disk in any case, but @owenlin0, I would recommend looking
into that.
Also, it appears that the types in `codex-rs/protocol/src/account.rs`
are used exclusively by the `app-server-protocol` crate, so perhaps they
should just be moved there?
The API schema export is currently broken:
```
> cargo run -p codex-app-server-protocol --bin export -- --out DIR
Error: this type cannot be exported
```
This PR fixes the error message so we get more info:
```
> cargo run -p codex-app-server-protocol --bin export -- --out DIR
Error: failed to export client responses: dependency core::option::Option<codex_protocol::account::Account> cannot be exported
```
And fixes the root cause which is the `account/read` response.
Add annotations and an export script that let us generate app-server
protocol types as typescript and JSONSchema.
The script itself is a bit hacky because we need to manually label some
of the types. Unfortunately it seems that enum variants don't get good
names by default and end up with something like `EventMsg1`,
`EventMsg2`, etc. I'm not an expert in this by any means, but since this
is only run manually and we already need to enumerate the types required
to describe the protocol, it didn't seem that much worse. An ideal
solution here would be to have some kind of root that we could generate
schemas for in one go, but I'm not sure if that's compatible with how we
generate the protocol today.
