types(dispatcher): use OutgoingHttpHeaders for request headers#5067
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This relates to...
Closes #3840
Rationale
DispatchOptions.headers(andConnectOptions.headers,UpgradeOptions.headers,ProxyAgent.Options.headers,Socks5ProxyAgent.Options.headers) are used to set headers on outgoing requests, but the type unionUndiciHeaderswas built aroundIncomingHttpHeaders(server-side semantics). This prevented users from passing common outgoing values like{ 'content-length': 42 }(numeric values), even though the runtime accepts them and coerces them to strings via template-literal interpolation inlib/core/request.js.This change introduces an
OutgoingHttpHeadersalias intypes/header.d.ts(mirroring Node core'shttp.OutgoingHttpHeaders:Record<string, number | string | string[] | undefined>), and uses it to modelUndiciHeadersand theheadersoption on the proxy agents. Response/incoming-side fields (ResponseData.headers,ConnectData.headers, etc.) continue to useIncomingHttpHeadersas before.Because
IncomingHttpHeadersis a subtype of the newOutgoingHttpHeaders, this is a non-breaking widening of the request-header types: any code that previously typechecked still typechecks.Changes
Features
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Bug Fixes
OutgoingHttpHeaderstotypes/header.d.tsand use it for outgoing-requestheadersoptions:Dispatcher.UndiciHeaders(DispatchOptions,ConnectOptions,UpgradeOptions)ProxyAgent.Options.headersSocks5ProxyAgent.Options.headersdocs/docs/api/Dispatcher.mdUndiciHeadersparameter docs to reflectOutgoingHttpHeaderssemantics (matches the screenshot in Typing issue: headers in DispatchOptions should use OutgoingHttpHeaders #3840).tsdregression tests intest/types/header.test-d.tsandtest/types/dispatcher.test-d.tscovering numeric header values and Node coreOutgoingHttpHeadersinterop.Breaking Changes and Deprecations
None.
OutgoingHttpHeadersis a strict superset ofIncomingHttpHeadersfor the value union, so existing usages continue to typecheck.Status