Changed the shared field type catalog to metafields terminology by rob-ghost · Pull Request #30492 · TryGhost/Ghost

rob-ghost · 2026-09-03T10:04:44Z

ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-3922/rename-the-code-behind-the-metafields-api-to-match-the-domain-language

Background

Ghost lets a publisher define extra fields on their member records — a shoe size, a company name, a shipping address. The HTTP API for this calls the whole mechanism metafields, and groups every field under a namespace naming whoever owns it. The publisher's own namespace is called custom, and it is the only one that exists today. Others are intended for installed apps, so that an app can add its own fields without its key names colliding with the publisher's.

The API already speaks this way: the request payload key, the URL, the CSV column prefix and the database filter alias all say metafields. The code behind that API does not — it calls the entire mechanism "custom fields", which is the name of one namespace inside it.

Problem

The same concept has two names depending on which layer you are reading. Worse, the name used underneath asserts that the publisher's namespace is the only namespace there can be, which is the opposite of what namespaces exist to allow.

This PR starts at the bottom of the dependency graph: a small workspace package that both the Ghost server and the Admin app read to learn which field types exist (short text, long text, address) and what counts as a valid value for each. Both sides read it so they cannot disagree about what is valid.

Solution

Rename the package to @tryghost/metafield-types, and update every consumer's import.

One exported function is renamed with it: isCustomFieldColumn becomes isMetafieldColumn. It decides whether a CSV column header refers to one of these fields, which it does by testing for a metafields. prefix — so it is about the mechanism, not about any one namespace. Its callers in the server and in Admin move with it, so this PR compiles and passes on its own.

No behaviour changes, and nothing on the HTTP API changes.

Deliberately unchanged

Stripe Checkout has its own, unrelated feature it also calls custom fields. Anything named after Stripe's version is left alone. So are the screens a publisher actually sees, which go on saying Custom fields, because that is the namespace they are managing.

Where this sits

First of four. The others rename the database tables, the server-side service, and the permission that guards defining a field. Read on its own this change looks half finished, and it is — the tables and the service still use the old name until the later PRs land.


this PR	shared field-type package
#30494	database tables and columns
#30495	server-side service and its types
#30497	permission to read and define fields

https://claude.ai/code/session_01XFCbqgYHYhd9rZ5WXtqZyT

ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/BER-3922/rename-the-code-behind-the-metafields-api-to-match-the-domain-language The API vocabulary, the CSV columns and the filter relation all say "metafields", but the package holding the shared catalog and its column predicate still said "custom field", so the same concept went by two names depending on which layer you were reading. Renaming the package to @tryghost/metafield-types, and isCustomFieldColumn to isMetafieldColumn, leaves one word for it everywhere the shared vocabulary is used. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XFCbqgYHYhd9rZ5WXtqZyT

github-actions · 2026-09-03T10:04:59Z

coderabbitai · 2026-09-03T10:05:39Z

Walkthrough

The pull request renames @tryghost/custom-field-types to @tryghost/metafield-types. It adds identity constants, parsing, formatting, TypeScript configuration, ESLint configuration, and Vitest configuration. Admin and core imports now use the renamed package. CSV classification uses isMetafieldColumn. Package dependencies, documentation, comments, and tests use metafield terminology. Existing processing logic remains unchanged.

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e444c

The package rename preserves the metafields CSV behavior across Admin and core consumers. Merge risk is low, but the CSV contract documentation and boundary test should be corrected to prevent future import guidance or predicate regressions.

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Type-Safe Boundaries	✅ Passed	PASS. The PR commit only renames the shared package and `isCustomFieldColumn` to `isMetafieldColumn`, then updates imports and comments. The predicate body is unchanged (`column === QUALIFIER \|\| colum…
New Files Are Typescript	✅ Passed	PASS. The diff against origin/main contains no added .js, .jsx, or .cjs files. The only JavaScript-like path is a 100% rename of packages/custom-field-types/eslint.config.mjs to packages/metafield-typ…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: replacing shared custom-field terminology with metafields terminology.
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PASS. The PR commit only renames the shared package and isCustomFieldColumn to isMetafieldColumn, then updates imports and comments. The predicate body is unchanged (column === QUALIFIER || column.startsWith(PREFIX)). No HTTP, API, database, filesystem, or other boundary-reading logic changed. No new any, unchecked boundary cast, ts-nocheck, ts-ignore, or duplicated Zod shape was introduced.

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apps/admin-x-framework/src/api/member-custom-fields.ts-14-14 (1)
14-14: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the metafields. prefix in the import-mapping comment.

isMetafieldColumn recognizes metafields.* columns, but this comment still documents custom_fields.*. Update the example to match the actual CSV contract.
Proposed comment fix
-// Re-exported so the import mapping can recognize a custom_fields.* column (same reason
+// Re-exported so the import mapping can recognize a metafields.* column (same reason
The predicate contract is defined in packages/metafield-types/src/csv.ts:60-62.
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In `@apps/admin-x-framework/src/api/member-custom-fields.ts` at line 14, Update
the import-mapping comment near the re-export to document a metafields.* column
instead of custom_fields.*, matching the prefix recognized by isMetafieldColumn
and the CSV contract.
packages/metafield-types/test/csv.test.ts-139-139 (1)
139-139: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the unqualified metafields boundary.

The existing negative case checks custom_fields_note. Add a metafields_note assertion so an implementation using startsWith('metafields') cannot pass this test.
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     assert.equal(isMetafieldColumn('custom_fields_note'), false);
+    assert.equal(isMetafieldColumn('metafields_note'), false);
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In `@packages/metafield-types/test/csv.test.ts` at line 139, Add a negative
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boundary, verifying that “metafields_note” returns false alongside the existing
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In `@apps/admin-x-framework/src/api/member-custom-fields.ts`:
- Line 14: Update the import-mapping comment near the re-export to document a
metafields.* column instead of custom_fields.*, matching the prefix recognized
by isMetafieldColumn and the CSV contract.

In `@packages/metafield-types/test/csv.test.ts`:
- Line 139: Add a negative assertion in the isMetafieldColumn test covering the
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