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Closes#3195. The HookEvent enum declared 18 events but the engine only ever dispatches 8. The 10 dead ones (beforeFindOne/afterFindOne, beforeCount/afterCount, beforeAggregate/afterAggregate, beforeUpdateMany/afterUpdateMany, beforeDeleteMany/afterDeleteMany) mirrored the engine method table rather than domain events, so a hook subscribing to them registered fine and then silently never fired — the same declared ≠ enforced failure mode as the validation events: ['delete'] gap (#3184). The skills even shipped a copy-pasteable afterFindOne masking example that no-ops.

Design decision (from the issue's review): collapse the taxonomy, don't build out dispatch. Peer platforms don't expose per-method read triggers or a single/bulk split — Salesforce/Postgres/Rails treat reads as one materialization event and writes as bulk-first. The 18-value enum copied Mongoose's per-method shape (its most notorious footgun); the dead events' jobs already have correct homes (read authz → RLS/permissions, masking → field metadata, bulk → the singular write events).

Changes

  • packages/spec/src/data/hook.zod.tsHookEvent narrowed to 8 (beforeFind/afterFind + insert/update/delete pairs); HookContext.input doc formalizes that bulk multi:true writes fire the singular events with the predicate in input.ast.
  • packages/objectql/src/engine.tsfindOne now fires beforeFind/afterFind (mirrors find(); one read event covers both). registerHook warns when a hook subscribes to a non-dispatched event (a DISPATCHABLE_HOOK_EVENTS set is the single source of truth, kept in lockstep with the triggerHooks call sites).
  • Skills (objectstack-data/rules/hooks.md, references/data-hooks.md) — teach 8 events + a responsibility table; fixed the double-subscribe ['afterFind','afterFindOne'] masking example to a single afterFind and pointed static masking at field metadata.
  • Docs (kernel/events.mdx, api/data-flow.mdx, protocol/objectql/schema.mdx) — corrected; regenerated content/docs/references/data/hook.mdx.
  • .changeset/ — patch (spec + objectql).

Behavior change

  • findOne now runs beforeFind/afterFind hooks (previously it ran none). Fail-closed direction: a read hook that authors expected to fire on single-record reads now does. No existing hook is negatively affected.
  • Authoring a hook on a removed event now fails at parse/validate time instead of registering a dead hook. Verified zero shipped hooks or authored metadata used any removed event; the only repo-wide references were docs/skills text (all updated).

Tests

  • engine.test.tsfindOne fires beforeFind+afterFind in order; an afterFind hook can transform the findOne result; registerHook warns for a non-dispatched event and stays quiet for a dispatchable one.
  • hook.test.ts — enum accepts the 8, rejects all 10 removed values.

Verified: spec 253 files / 6774 tests green, objectql 71 files / 944 tests green, check:docs 253 files in sync, spec+objectql builds green, eslint clean. No source consumer references the removed event names.

Lineage

Third fix in the PD #10 events-enum audit line: #3160 (validation on multi-row updates) → #3189 (trim validation delete) → this. Sibling issues still open: #3196 (webhook undelete/api), #3197 (schema-only event surfaces).

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…oks (#3195)
The HookEvent enum declared 18 events but the engine only ever dispatches 8.
The 10 dead ones (beforeFindOne/afterFindOne, beforeCount/afterCount,
beforeAggregate/afterAggregate, beforeUpdateMany/afterUpdateMany,
beforeDeleteMany/afterDeleteMany) mirrored the engine method table rather than
domain events, so a hook subscribing to them registered fine and silently
never fired — the same declared≠enforced failure mode as the validation
delete-event gap (#3184), and the skills even shipped a copy-pasteable
afterFindOne masking example that no-ops.
Design decision (see issue): collapse the taxonomy, don't build out dispatch.
Peer platforms (Salesforce, Postgres, Rails) don't expose per-method read
triggers or single/bulk splits — reads are one materialization event, writes
are bulk-first. So:
- findOne now fires the SAME beforeFind/afterFind hooks as find (the read
event attaches to record materialization, not the method) — one subscription
covers every read shape.
- Bulk (multi:true) writes already fire the singular before/after write events
with the row-scoping predicate in ctx.input.ast; documented, no *Many event.
- Removed the 10 dead enum values. Read authz/row-filtering is the RLS/
permission layer; field masking is field metadata — not per-author hooks.
- engine.registerHook warns when a hook subscribes to a non-dispatched event,
so enum-vs-dispatch drift can't recur silently.
No shipped hook or authored metadata used any removed event. Skills and docs
(hooks.md, data-hooks.md, kernel/events.mdx, api/data-flow.mdx,
protocol/objectql/schema.mdx) updated to teach 8 events + the declarative
alternatives; regenerated content/docs/references/data/hook.mdx. Added tests
for findOne firing find hooks and the registration guard.
Closes#3195
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCUSMJBsX14C3RQdWFw7N7
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