@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
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-'@objectstack/service-analytics': patch
+'@objectstack/service-analytics': minor
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 fix(service-analytics): both analytics filter faces answer `$empty` by the field's declared type (#20445)
 
-Clause-②: no
+Clause-②: yes (widening)
 
 `$empty: true | false` is declared by `@objectstack/spec` (`FieldOperatorsSchema`) with a per-type meaning: a text-like field is empty when it is null or `''`, a multi-value field (multiselect, checkboxes, tags, or a select / radio / lookup / user / file / image with `multiple: true`) when it is null or `[]`, and every other type only when it is null. `$empty: false` is the exact complement. Both of this package's filter faces now answer it by that table, through the spec's one expansion (`expandEmptyOperator`), instead of refusing it:
 
@@ -15,6 +15,6 @@ A multi-value field's empty list is tested with a JSON function per SQL dialect
 
 **Refused, never guessed** — `INVALID_FILTER` / 400 on the `where` face, `READ_SCOPE_COMPILE_FAILED` / 500 on a read scope — when the host cannot name the field's declared type (no `sourceFieldMeta` wired, or no such field), when a multi-value field's datasource dialect is unknown, and when the flag is not a boolean (`$empty: 'true'` is refused like a non-boolean `$null`).
 
-Host API: `AnalyticsServiceConfig.sourceFieldMeta` may now answer `multiple` beside `type`; `AnalyticsServicePlugin` relays it from the field definition. A host that omits it has every multi-capable field read as single-valued. `compileScopedFilterToSql` takes an optional `declaredValueShape` option.
+Host API (two new optional members, hence `minor`): `AnalyticsServiceConfig.sourceFieldMeta` may now answer `multiple` beside `type`, and `AnalyticsServicePlugin` relays it from the field definition; `compileScopedFilterToSql` takes an optional `declaredValueShape` option. A host whose `sourceFieldMeta` answers `type` but not `multiple` has every multi-capable field it declared `multiple: true` (select / radio / lookup / user / file / image) read as single-valued, which is the null-only row. On such a field a read scope's `$empty: false` then admits rows holding `[]`, and `$empty: true` misses them. Relay the field's `multiple` from its definition to get the list row.
 
 `$empty` stays staged: it is not in `FILTER_OPERATORS`, and the view operators `is_empty` / `is_not_empty` still lower to `$null`.