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+// Copyright (c) 2026 ObjectStack. Licensed under the Apache-2.0 license.
+
+/**
+ * [#25467 cut 14] Two helpers of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation`'s publish
+ * batch: the seed apply that loads a package's seed bodies after the batch
+ * promotes (`applySeedBodies`) and the collection of the batch's own pending
+ * declarations the runtime-authoring gate judges a draft against
+ * (`collectBatchPendingDeclarations`), moved out of `protocol.ts` whole.
+ *
+ * A MOVE, not a redesign. Each function below is the body of the
+ * `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation` method of the same name as it stood,
+ * re-indented one level and otherwise unedited: the same reads, in the same
+ * order, answering with the same receipts and the same degradations.
+ *
+ * ## How the moved bodies reach the class
+ *
+ * The shape #23050 set for `rest-server.ts` (its `data-action-routes.ts`
+ * header carries the full reasoning), as `protocol-batch-data.ts` applies it.
+ * The class keeps every method — the published `dist/*.d.ts` lists each one's
+ * name, docblock and declared signature — and each body is one literal of
+ * exactly the {@link PublishBatchHost} members that method reads, plus a
+ * `.call`. The engine is handed over as a getter, so the body reads the
+ * protocol's engine at call time; a method is handed over as a closure that
+ * calls it on the protocol at call time, so a test double or spy set on the
+ * instance is still the one the body reaches. Every other reader of these two
+ * methods keeps calling the class method.
+ *
+ * `applySeedBodies` reads `getMetaItem` through an `any` cast inside the
+ * loader's metadata adapter, so the host carries it although no `this.X`
+ * spelling names it. `warnClosureReadUnavailable` stays in the class: it
+ * writes the instance's `closureReadWarned` flag.
+ *
+ * What the bodies read of `protocol.ts`'s own module-level declarations they
+ * import from it; what they import from elsewhere, they import from where
+ * `protocol.ts` imported it. Nothing re-exports this module, so the published
+ * surface does not move.
+ */
+
+import type { ObjectStackProtocolImplementation } from './protocol.js';
+import {
+    canonicalMetaType,
+    clientFacingFailureText,
+    declaresClientRefusal,
+    memberOption,
+    seedRequestValidationError,
+} from './protocol.js';
+import { CLOSURE_CONTEXT_KEY_BY_TYPE, type RuntimePendingDeclarations } from './runtime-authoring-gate.js';
+
+/**
+ * The `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation` members the functions below read —
+ * every one of them, and no other; each function's `this` is the `Pick` of the
+ * members IT reads. Each is typed AS the class member (an indexed access on
+ * the class), so a change to a member's signature on the class is a change
+ * here too, and naming a member the class does not have is a compile error.
+ */
+export interface PublishBatchHost {
+    readonly engine: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['engine'];
+    getMetaItem: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['getMetaItem'];
+    getOverlayRepo: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['getOverlayRepo'];
+    warnClosureReadUnavailable: ObjectStackProtocolImplementation['warnClosureReadUnavailable'];
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#applySeedBodies`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export async function applySeedBodies(
+    this: Pick<PublishBatchHost, 'engine' | 'getMetaItem'>,
+    bodies: unknown[],
+): Promise<{
+    success: boolean; inserted: number; updated: number; error?: string; errors?: unknown[];
+    issues?: Array<{ path: string; message: string; code?: string | undefined }>;
+}> {
+    try {
+        const seeds = bodies.filter(
+            (b: any) => b && typeof b.object === 'string' && Array.isArray(b.records),
+        );
+        if (seeds.length === 0) {
+            return { success: false, inserted: 0, updated: 0, error: 'seed apply: no readable seed bodies' };
+        }
+        const { SeedLoaderService } = await import('./seed-loader.js');
+        const { SeedLoaderRequestSchema } = await import('@objectstack/spec/data');
+        // The loader only needs `getObject` from IMetadataService (dependency
+        // graph + field introspection); satisfy it from the protocol's own
+        // metadata reads so no kernel service lookup is required.
+        const metadataAdapter = {
+            getObject: async (name: string) => {
+                const wrapper: any = await (this as any).getMetaItem({ type: 'object', name });
+                return wrapper?.item ?? wrapper ?? null;
+            },
+        };
+        const loader = new SeedLoaderService(
+            this.engine as any,
+            metadataAdapter as any,
+            console as any,
+        );
+        // [#8333 · P9] `safeParse`, not `parse` — see {@link
+        // seedRequestValidationError}. A malformed seed body used to reach
+        // the catch below as a raw `ZodError`, which declares no `status`
+        // and would therefore have been withheld along with the driver text
+        // this card is about. Declaring the refusal at its own producer is
+        // what keeps the author's feedback AND the positive list intact.
+        const parsedRequest = SeedLoaderRequestSchema.safeParse({
+            seeds,
+            config: {
+                defaultMode: 'upsert',
+                multiPass: true,
+                // [ADR-0131 D6, §12] No caller organization: a seed dataset
+                // names the organization it populates itself, and the
+                // loader derives the owner only under `single` (D9).
+            },
+        });
+        if (!parsedRequest.success) throw seedRequestValidationError(parsedRequest.error.issues);
+        const r = await loader.load(parsedRequest.data);
+        return {
+            success: r.success,
+            inserted: r.summary.totalInserted,
+            updated: r.summary.totalUpdated,
+            ...(r.errors?.length ? { errors: r.errors } : {}),
+        };
+    } catch (e: any) {
+        // [#8333 · P9] `seedApplied.error` rides on a **200** publish
+        // response, so this is a data-path disclosure no HTTP boundary can
+        // reach. Measured on `origin/main`: a driver failure under the
+        // loader's dependency-graph read (`getMetaItem` → `sys_metadata`)
+        // escaped the loader and arrived here, putting `SQLITE_ERROR: no
+        // such table: sys_metadata` on the field.
+        //
+        // The other population this catch receives — the seed bodies' own
+        // schema rejection — now DECLARES itself 422 at the parse above, so
+        // it is quoted in full and the author still learns which seed and
+        // which key. That declaration is the whole reason this site could
+        // be converted rather than escalated.
+        console.warn(`[protocol.applySeedBodies] seed apply failed: ${e?.message ?? e}`);
+        return {
+            success: false, inserted: 0, updated: 0,
+            error: clientFacingFailureText(e, 'seed apply failed'),
+            // [#10524] A DECLARED refusal's structured findings ride the
+            // receipt beside the headline `error` — the message is a
+            // one-sentence headline now, so this is where the per-key
+            // prose reaches the author. Guarded by the same declaration
+            // test as the text above: only the declared 422
+            // (`seedRequestValidationError`) attaches `issues`; no driver
+            // error carries them (the #8441 measurement), so nothing
+            // undeclared is routed around the withhold.
+            ...(declaresClientRefusal(e) && Array.isArray(e?.issues)
+                ? { issues: e.issues }
+                : {}),
+        };
+    }
+}
+
+/** The body of `ObjectStackProtocolImplementation#collectBatchPendingDeclarations`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export async function collectBatchPendingDeclarations(
+    this: Pick<PublishBatchHost, 'getOverlayRepo' | 'warnClosureReadUnavailable'>,
+    drafts: ReadonlyArray<{ type: string; name: string; member?: string }>,
+): Promise<RuntimePendingDeclarations | undefined> {
+    // [#13216] Typed as a mapped type over `RuntimePendingDeclarations`
+    // with `-?`, not as a hand-listed literal. The literal it replaces was
+    // the third place the collection set is written down, and the only one
+    // that could fall behind SILENTLY: a key added to `RuntimeStackContext`
+    // and routed by `CLOSURE_CONTEXT_KEY_BY_TYPE` would simply never be
+    // accumulated here, so a package publishing a dataset beside the
+    // dashboard that binds it would keep being refused for the sibling in
+    // its own batch — the `shyx_customer_ds` shape #10377 was filed for.
+    // `-?` makes every key REQUIRED, so the next widening is a compile error
+    // at this line instead — and [#17063]'s NARROWING was one too, which is
+    // how `pages` left this literal in the same edit it left
+    // `RuntimeStackContext`.
+    const pending: { [K in keyof RuntimePendingDeclarations]-?: unknown[] } = {
+        objects: [], permissions: [], books: [], datasets: [],
+    };
+    let any = false;
+    for (const d of drafts) {
+        // The canonical fold, same boundary the promote applies: a stored
+        // manifest-plural spelling must route to the same collection its
+        // singular does, or one row's shape would decide whether the
+        // package is judged against itself.
+        const singular = canonicalMetaType(d.type);
+        const key = (CLOSURE_CONTEXT_KEY_BY_TYPE as Record<string, keyof RuntimePendingDeclarations>)[singular];
+        if (!key) continue;
+        const repo = this.getOverlayRepo();
+        // ── The repository-shape guard, and why it degrades ALL-OR-NOTHING
+        //
+        // This method introduced the batch door's first dependency on
+        // `repo.get`. `SysMetadataRepository` has always had it, but the
+        // seam is overridable (`getOverlayRepo` is the injection point every
+        // publish double replaces), and the door's only previous body read —
+        // the `seed` capture — fires solely when a seed draft is in the
+        // batch, so a repository shape without `get` had never been asked
+        // for one. Measured: nine `publishPackageDrafts` cases in
+        // `@objectstack/objectql` drive a double declaring `listDrafts`
+        // alone, and this call turned every one of them into
+        // `TypeError: repo.get is not a function` — thrown BEFORE any
+        // promotion, so the batch door died on a shape it used to accept.
+        //
+        // The answer is a declared capability check, not a wider `try`: a
+        // missing member is a fact about the repository, knowable up front,
+        // and it must not read like a failed read. Degrading returns the
+        // closure to its pre-#10377 state (the live universe alone), which
+        // is the safe direction — the gate keeps judging and can only be
+        // MORE strict, never fail open.
+        //
+        // ⛔ All-or-nothing on purpose. Bailing out of the whole collection
+        // rather than skipping this one draft is what keeps the verdict from
+        // depending on WHICH org a draft happens to live in: a partial
+        // closure would resolve some of a package's own names and not
+        // others, which is a third behaviour nobody declared and nobody
+        // could reproduce.
+        if (typeof repo.get !== 'function') {
+            this.warnClosureReadUnavailable(singular, d.name);
+            return undefined;
+        }
+        const ref = {
+            type: singular, name: d.name, org: 'env',
+        } as unknown as Parameters<typeof repo.get>[0];
+        // [#22877] The draft's own bundle member, as listed.
+        const draft = await repo.get(ref, { state: 'draft', ...memberOption(d.member) });
+        if (draft?.body === undefined || draft.body === null) continue;
+        pending[key].push(draft.body);
+        any = true;
+    }
+    // Absent, not empty: `undefined` is what keeps a batch with no
+    // closure-relevant drafts byte-identical to the pre-#10377 gate call,
+    // rather than routing it through a merge that would be a no-op.
+    return any ? pending : undefined;
+}