why does dns.records.edit() require a full record instead of a Partial<> ?

[djadair]

Confirm this is a TypeScript library issue and not an underlying Cloudflare API issue

• This is an issue with the TypeScript library

Describe the bug

Sorry if this is a stupid question but doesn't that defeat the purpose of using PATCH ?

I could be confused but it appears the actual API endpoint accepts partial updates e..g. { content: new_ip } but the API definition requires ttl, name, and type making edit and update synonyms.

If the actual API endpoint accepts partials then the API should allow them too e.g. RecordEditParams should be defined with ?: for everything except zoneid: rather than being an exact duplicate of RecordUpdateParams.

If I am confused and the partial update is forcing missing settings to some default then the API is currently correct.

Note: Code generation looks correct. It is the actual spec I am questioning.

To Reproduce

Reproduction is simple. This fragment appears to work fine in a production worker:

			await creds.cloudflare.dns.records.edit(dnsid, {
				zone_id: creds.zoneid,
				content: ip,
			})

But when compiled with tsc it refuses to build due to the missing mandatory fields.

Code snippets

OS

Ubuntu 22.04

Runtime version

Typescript 7.0.2

Library version

cloudflare 7.0.0 cloudflare/types 7.0.1 cloudflare/workers-types 5.20260801.1

[jessicayingg]

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[djadair]

Just a bit more detail on the "works if you ignore the compile errors" part.

This code properly updates a DNS record IP without specifying any other parameters. It doesn't really
do anything except force dns.records.edit() to ignore the missing ttl, name, and type parameters.

type DistributivePartial<T> = T extends any ? Partial<T> : never;
function bypassStrict<T>(obj: DistributivePartial<T>): T {
  return obj as unknown as T;
}
	const edit: Partial<RecordEditParams> = {
		zone_id: zoneid,
		content: ip,
	};
	const newrec = (
		await cloudflare.dns.records.edit(dnsid, bypassStrict<RecordEditParams>(edit))
	) || {};

[cordeisha3-cyber]

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