api

name	api
description	Defines the authored and generated parts of packages/api, its public entry, shared diagnosers, SDK connections, and simulation boundary. Read before editing or importing the API package.

API Package

Ownership

packages/api is the public contract. The backend implements it and the frontend consumes it.

Path	Ownership
src/structures/*.ts	Authored requirement-derived DTOs
src/typings/**	Authored transport primitives such as IEntity, IPage, and IDiagnosis
src/diagnosers/**	Authored pure rules shared by client and server
src/functional/**	Generated Nestia accessors

Never edit generated paths. Change controllers or DTOs, then run backend pnpm build:sdk.

src/index.ts is the only public entry. Export every authored DTO through src/structures/index.ts and then the package entry. Import from the package name:

import * as api from "@benchmark/reddit-api";

const page: api.IPage<api.IShoppingSale.ISummary> =
  await api.functional.shopping.customer.sale.index(connection, {
    body: { limit: 20 },
  });

Import the package as a namespace, which exposes the accessors and the DTO types through one binding. A default import binds the whole surface under default, losing the api.functional.… address the accessors document themselves by.

Do not publish or consume @benchmark/reddit-api/structures. A second export surface creates a second contract path.

Generated Accessors

Read the generated accessor and its JSDoc instead of guessing from a route. It owns the exact parameters, request, response, simulation branch, and token mutation.

const page: IPage<IShoppingSale.ISummary> =
  await api.functional.shopping.customer.sale.index(connection, {
    body: { limit: 20 },
  });

Never hand-write a URL, cast a namespace to reach a missing member, or redeclare a request or response type. A missing accessor is a contract or generation finding.

Shared Diagnosers

Place a pure rule in src/diagnosers only when frontend and backend must apply the identical rule. Common examples are cross-field validation, entity-to-edit-input mapping, and a shared derivation. Export it from the package and use the same implementation on both sides.

Keep one-sided helpers in their owning package. Publishing a helper nobody outside one package needs expands the contract without a requirement.

Connections

An SDK connection carries the host, authentication headers, and simulation flag. Authentication lifecycle accessors mutate the connection when their controller JSDoc declares:

/**
 * @setHeader token.access Authorization
 */

const connection: api.IConnection = { host };
await api.functional.shopping.auth.customer.login(connection, { body });
// Reuse this same authenticated connection.

Use one connection per actor. Do not create a fresh connection for the next call or write a Bearer header manually. A browser may restore a persisted issued token onto its one shared connection at startup; that is session restoration, not a second authentication mechanism.

Simulation

Simulation validates the declared request boundary and returns type-correct generated responses:

const connection: api.IConnection = { host, simulate: true };

It proves contract shape and client flow. It does not run providers, persist state, authorize ownership, refresh sessions, or produce deterministic cross-field data. Build frontend flows against simulation and use fixtures for named UI states, then close with the live journey suite under VITE_API_SIMULATE=false against the live backend. The two are separate suites, and .agents/skills/frontend/verification.md owns why.