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Stack: middle of three. Stacked on #5374 (the alias-cycle fix, number assigned when pushed); merge that first, then retarget this PR to canary. #5375 (optional serde impls) is stacked on this one.

Bug

The Rust SDK generator silently drops everything that touches BAML's json type. With

class Event {
    id: string,
    payload: json,
}
function echo(event: Event) -> Event { event }
function count(items: json[]) -> int { items.length() }

all three symbols are skipped for Rust. TypeScript, Python and Go emit them.

warning: skipped `user.Event`: references skipped or unknown type `baml.json.json`
warning: skipped `user.count`: argument `items`: references skipped or unknown type `baml.json.json`
warning: skipped `user.echo`: return: references skipped or unknown type `user.Event`

The warnings only show with baml generate -F display_all_warnings. Projects whose types contain free-form JSON (OpenAPI {} schemas, additionalProperties, opaque payloads) lose most of their Rust surface.

Cause. json is the recursive stdlib alias null | bool | int | bigint | float | string | json[] | map<string, json>. sdkgen_rust emits aliases as Rust type items, which cannot be recursive, so analyze.rs skips every recursive alias, and the fixpoint then skips every class, alias and function that references one.

Fix

Special-case the canonical alias by its exact FQN (BAML_JSON_JSON, as the Go generator does) and map it onto serde_json::Value.

  • Bridge (baml_bridge):
    • baml_bridge::Json (= serde_json::Value), with conversions in both directions and baml_ty() naming the baml.json.json alias.
    • serde_json is re-exported, so generated crates and their users need no new dependency (baml_bridge::serde_json::json!).
    • New DecodeError::NotJson (DecodeError is #[non_exhaustive]).
  • Generator (sdkgen_rust):
    • baml.json.json translates to ::baml_bridge::Json everywhere: fields, arguments, returns, containers and generic arguments.
    • The alias item is emitted as pub type json = ::baml_bridge::Json;, and user aliases of it resolve to the same type.
    • Look-alike user recursive aliases keep the existing skip.
  • json? is Option<Json>, following the generator's uniform T? → Option<T> rule. BAML null decodes as None.
  • Unions. A bare json arm next to other arms (json | Foo) overlaps them on the wire, so such unions still skip (fail closed). Container arms (json[] | string) can be told apart and are emitted.
  • Clippy allow. Emitting json makes the OpenAI vendor client representable. Its verbatim docstring trips clippy::doc_lazy_continuation, which failed the SDK suite's clippy -D warnings gate, so the lint is allowed at the generated crate root next to the existing naming allowances.

Numbers

BAML int is 63-bit (the VM keeps a tag bit), so its range is [-2^62, 2^62 - 1], and the engine rejects a wider host int. A json integer outside that range is therefore sent as a BAML bigint, which is the arm baml.json.parse gives the same token. A bigint coming back decodes when it fits i64 or u64. Every i64 and u64 round-trips, encoding cannot fail, and no bigint type appears in the Rust API.

Rust value sent BAML sees Comes back as
json!(42) int 42
json!(4611686018427387904) (2^62) bigint same (i64)
json!(i64::MIN) bigint same
json!(u64::MAX) bigint same (u64)
(BAML returns (2n).pow(64n) in a json) bigint Error::Decode(NotJson): "baml.json.json value has no serde_json form: an integer outside the i64/u64 range"
(BAML returns float.nan() in a json) float Error::Decode(NotJson): "... a non-finite float"

Floats are finite f64, and an integral float stays a float. Objects follow serde_json::Map order. Decoding also fails with NotJson on a value that is not JSON at all (class, enum, media, bytes, handle).

Only when some crate in the build enables serde_json's arbitrary_precision can a Number hold more than i64/u64/f64. Then a wider integer is sent exactly as a bigint, and a float beyond f64's range (1e400) is sent as ±infinity, which is how str::parse::<f64> reads it. Both are documented on Json.

serde_json features (#4527)

Today baml_bridge turns on serde_json's arbitrary_precision and preserve_order in every downstream crate; #4527 stops that. This PR neither needs nor adds either feature, and its tests pass with them on (current canary) and off (canary + #4527). The bridge names its serde_json in one place (pub use serde_json; in lib.rs; json.rs imports through crate::serde_json), so whichever of the two PRs lands second changes that one line.

Tests

  • cargo test -p sdkgen_rust: 69 passed. Five of the six new tests fail on the base branch's generator: canonical json in fields and signatures with no skips, no alias item needed in the pool, a user alias of json, a bare-json union failing closed, and json[] | string being emitted. The sixth pins that a look-alike recursive alias still skips.
  • cargo nextest run -p baml_bridge --all-features: 100 passed.
    • Unit tests: nested round trips; BAML int bounds; 2^62, i64::MIN, i64::MAX and u64::MAX sent as bigint and decoded back exactly; rejection of out-of-range bigint, invalid hex, NaN/±inf, class, media and bytes; literal envelopes; Option<Json>; the arbitrary_precision-only numbers; and CallOptions::argument(.., json!({"id": u64::MAX})), which panicked on the previous revision of this PR.
    • Live engine tests: round trips at the top level, in lists, maps and classes, as json?, as generic T = json and as json[] | string, all with full-width integers; BAML-side narrowing (a host 2^62 matches let b: bigint); baml.json.parse of i64::MAX/i64::MIN; a BAML bigint 2^64 - 1 decoding to u64::MAX; 2^70 and NaN failing to decode.
  • cargo nextest run -p sdk_test_rust --all-features: 17/17 passed. function_calls/test_json.rs, previously gated on this projection, is now enabled. It covers the Go suite's canonical cases plus full-width integers as arguments and as host-callback return values.
  • cargo fmt --check with the repo's import options, and cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings on baml_bridge, sdkgen_rust, sdk_test_codegen and sdk_test_rust: clean.

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  1. 1e400 under arbitrary_precision becomes ±infinity rather than an error. Encoding is infallible (to_baml has no error channel), so the alternative is an error side channel just for this case.
  2. json? as Option<Json>, versus collapsing it to Json the way Go does (any, not *any).
  3. Unions with a bare json arm stay skipped. The engine keeps baml.json.json intact in a union's self_type and sends the selected index, so json | SomeClass looks supportable later.

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  • New Features
    • Added JSON value support to the Rust SDK, including nested values, optional nulls, and JSON fields in generated types.
    • Made serde_json available through the SDK for constructing JSON values without a separate dependency.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved error messages when BAML values cannot be represented as JSON.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for JSON round trips, numeric boundaries, unions, callbacks, and decoding errors.

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The Rust bridge adds a JSON projection for BAML values. The Rust SDK generator maps the canonical JSON alias to that bridge type and applies union representability checks. Bridge runtime tests and generated SDK tests cover JSON conversion and generated bindings.

Changes: Rust JSON projection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bridge JSON contract and conversion
baml_language/sdks/rust/bridge_rust/src/json.rs, baml_language/sdks/rust/bridge_rust/src/error.rs, baml_language/sdks/rust/bridge_rust/src/lib.rs
The bridge exposes Json and serde_json, encodes JSON values as BAML wire values, and decodes compatible values. Unsupported values and certain numeric values produce decode errors.
Canonical JSON type generation and union handling
baml_language/sdks/rust/sdkgen_rust/src/analyze.rs, baml_language/sdks/rust/sdkgen_rust/src/emit/type_alias.rs, baml_language/sdks/rust/sdkgen_rust/src/translate_ty.rs, baml_language/sdks/rust/sdkgen_rust/src/unions.rs, baml_language/sdks/rust/sdkgen_rust/src/lib.rs
The generator recognizes the canonical JSON alias and emits it as baml_bridge::Json in generated types. It retains JSON as a payload arm and rejects bare JSON unions whose wire values overlap other arms. Tests cover generated types, aliases, recursive aliases, and union cases.
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baml_language/sdks/rust/bridge_rust/tests/json.rs
Live-engine tests cover JSON round trips, containers, optional values, classes, unions, narrowing, and numeric boundaries.
Generated SDK JSON tests
baml_language/sdk_tests/codegen/src/rust.rs, baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/rust/function_calls/customizable/test_json.rs
The JSON test module is enabled. Its tests cover round trips, containers, defaults, callbacks, and nullable fields.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: 2kai2kai2, aaronvg

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 61477

JSON numbers may change value during encoding, and an aliased-JSON union may return the wrong variant. Resolve the numeric conversion concern and the union overlap before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 61477

The change is scoped to Rust JSON support, with explicit rejection of unrepresentable results. An indirect JSON alias can bypass the intended overlapping-union check, but no privilege expansion or cross-tenant attack path is demonstrated.

Retained concerns

  • Low · architecture · inferred: A user alias resolving to canonical JSON can bypass the new fail-closed union-overlap check. The alias emits as transparent bridge JSON, but validation checks only the canonical alias name. Beside an overlapping primitive arm, metadata-free decoding can therefore choose a Rust variant by trial order instead of rejecting an ambiguous contract. Selected-type metadata disambiguates matching tagged values; the evidence establishes a type-boundary weakness, not an authorization exploit.
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  • inferred — The demonstrated propagation is through Rust-generated schemas that reference canonical JSON, including class fields, collections, function arguments and returns, and transparent user aliases. The supplied high-fanout range contains test helpers; its unrelated symbol-name matches do not establish additional compiler or snapshot-decoder exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new decoder accepts JSON primitives and recursively decoded lists and maps, but rejects class, enum, media, bytes, and handle wire variants instead of converting them into JSON. Canonical type recognition uses exact compiler-qualified identity rather than structural similarity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — A nested JSON conversion failure aborts construction of the returned JSON value rather than exposing a partially decoded object. The existing result decoder propagates that failure to the caller as a typed error. Authored live-runtime tests assert this behavior for oversized nested bigints and non-finite floats.
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@rossirpaulo rossirpaulo changed the title feat(sdk-rust): map baml.json.json to serde_json::Value fix(sdk-rust): map json to serde_json::Value instead of skipping it Oct 22, 2026
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Add the bridge half of a Rust projection for BAML's recursive `json`
alias: `baml_bridge::Json` (`serde_json::Value`, re-exported along with
`serde_json` so generated crates need no new dependency) with
conversions in both directions and `baml_ty` naming the canonical
`baml.json.json` alias.

BAML `int` is 63-bit, so a json integer outside [-2^62, 2^62) crosses as
a BAML `bigint` (the arm `baml.json.parse` gives such a token), and a
BAML `bigint` decodes when it fits `i64` or `u64`. Every `i64` and `u64`
therefore round-trips, and encoding cannot fail. Decoding fails with the
new `DecodeError::NotJson` on a bigint outside `i64`/`u64`, a non-finite
float, or a value that is not JSON at all (class, enum, media, bytes,
handle).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The Rust generator emits type aliases as Rust `type` items, which cannot
be recursive, so it skipped the stdlib's recursive `json` alias. The
skip then cascaded: every class or alias with a `json` field, and every
function taking or returning one, was silently left out of the
generated SDK (visible only with `-F display_all_warnings`). Projects
whose types contain free-form JSON, such as OpenAPI `{}` schemas or
`additionalProperties`, lost most of their surface.

Special-case `baml.json.json` by its exact FQN (as the Go generator
does): references translate to `::baml_bridge::Json`, the alias item is
emitted as `pub type json = ::baml_bridge::Json;`, and user aliases of
it resolve to the same type. `json?` follows the generator's uniform
optional rule (`Option<Json>`, null decodes as `None`). Look-alike user
recursive aliases keep the existing skip. A bare `json` arm beside other
union arms overlaps them on the wire, so such unions still skip
(fail-closed); container arms such as `json[]` stay discriminable.

Newly emitted stdlib docstrings (the OpenAI vendor client's) are plain
prose that trips `clippy::doc_lazy_continuation`, so allow that lint at
the generated crate root next to the existing naming allowances.

Enable the Rust port of the shared `go_json_tests` SDK suite, extended
with round trips of full-width integers, defaults and callbacks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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🟡 Minor · Resolve user aliases before the JSON overlap check. · unions.rs:253-262

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Resolve user aliases before the JSON overlap check.

For type JsonAlias = baml.json.json; type Choice = JsonAlias | string, shape_error checks only the alias name. It does not resolve JsonAlias to baml.json.json, so synthesize can emit both arms. Both JsonAlias and string accept a string value. When selected-type metadata is absent, generated from_baml tries arms in declaration order and can return Choice::JsonAlias for a string instead of Choice::String.

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…aryML#5374)

**Stack:** bottom of three. BoundaryML#5287 (`json` → `serde_json::Value`) is
stacked on this PR, and BoundaryML#5375 (optional serde impls) on BoundaryML#5287. This one
targets `canary` directly.

## Bug

The Rust generator boxes a class field when the field sits on a
containment cycle, but its cycle analysis ignored type aliases. It
assumed alias references were inlined before codegen. They are not: they
stay nominal in the symbol pool. So a cycle through an alias was never
boxed:

```baml
class Text { text string }
class Extra { part Part }
type Part = Text | Extra
```

`baml generate` emits `pub part: crate::Part`, and the generated crate
does not compile:

```
error[E0072]: recursive types `Extra` and `TextOrExtra` have infinite size
```

Nothing in the current fixtures hits it.

## Fix

Emitted type aliases become nodes of the existing containment graph.
Each one gets edges to whatever its target holds inline. The SCC pass
and `needs_box` then treat an alias reference like a class reference.
That covers a direct field, an optional field, a union arm and alias
chains:

```rust
pub struct Extra {
    pub part: ::std::boxed::Box<crate::Part>,
    pub maybe: ::std::option::Option<::std::boxed::Box<crate::Part>>,
    pub alt: ::std::boxed::Box<crate::PartOrString>,   // `Part | string`
    pub outer: ::std::boxed::Box<crate::Outer>,        // `type Outer = Part`
    pub parts: ::std::vec::Vec<crate::Part>,           // a Vec already breaks the cycle
}
pub struct Holder { pub part: crate::Part }            // not on the cycle: no box
```

Production diff: +50/−32 in `sdkgen_rust` (`analyze.rs`,
`translate_ty.rs`, one doc line in `emit/type_alias.rs`). Most of the
removed lines are comments that described the old "aliases are inlined"
assumption.

## Tests

- New `recursion_through_a_type_alias_boxes_the_alias_reference` in
`sdkgen_rust/src/lib.rs`. With `canary`'s generator it fails (the
`Extra` fields come out unboxed); with the fix it passes.
- `cargo test -p sdkgen_rust`: 63 passed.
- `cargo nextest run -p sdk_test_rust`: 17/17 passed. That run
generates, rustfmts, clippies and tests every Rust fixture crate.
- End to end: the project above, generated with `baml-cli` and checked
with `cargo check` and `cargo clippy -D warnings`. It fails with E0072
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* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved Rust SDK generation for recursive type aliases, including
aliases referenced through class fields, nullable fields, and unions.
Generated references are now boxed where needed to support recursive
structures while leaving references outside the cycle unboxed.
Generation no longer reports warnings for the covered recursive alias
patterns.

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**Stack:** top of three. Stacked on BoundaryML#5287 (`json` →
`serde_json::Value`), which is stacked on BoundaryML#5374. Merge those first, then
retarget this PR to `canary`.

Closes BoundaryML#4969.

The old engine's Rust generator gave generated types serde impls
(BoundaryML#3118). The new generator's types don't have them, so a Rust host can't
persist or replay a typed result without writing its own mapping code.
This PR restores that, behind an opt-in `serde` feature on the generated
crate:

```toml
baml_sdk = { path = "baml_sdk", features = ["serde"] }
```

The feature adds only a `serde` dependency (with `derive`); union impls
use the `serde_json` that `baml_bridge` already re-exports. Without the
feature, the serde attributes and impls compile away.

## Shape

The JSON matches BAML's own `baml.json` (`to_string` and `from_string`):

- **Classes** derive `Serialize`/`Deserialize`. Keys are the BAML field
names, so a field whose Rust name differs (`r#type`, `crate_`) gets
`#[serde(rename = "...")]`. `None` serializes as `null`. A missing
optional field reads as `None`, and unknown keys are ignored.
- **Enums** serialize as the variant name.
- **Unions** are untagged. Deserializing tries the arms in declaration
order and takes the first that fits, as BAML does. A string-literal arm
is its string.
- **`json` fields** are `baml_bridge::Json` (`serde_json::Value`, from
BoundaryML#5287), so they serialize as the JSON itself, including full-width
`i64`/`u64` integers.

```rust
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
#[cfg_attr(feature = "serde", derive(::serde::Serialize, ::serde::Deserialize))]
pub struct Label {
    pub text: ::std::string::String,
    pub note: ::std::option::Option<::std::string::String>,
}
```

Union impls are written out instead of using `#[serde(untagged)]`.
`baml_bridge` turns on `serde_json/arbitrary_precision` (until BoundaryML#4527
lands), and with that feature serde's untagged buffer cannot read floats
(`1.5`, or a class arm with a float field). The impls buffer through
`serde_json::Value` instead, which works with the feature on or off.

## Not covered

These types get no impls, and the generated docs name the field that
blocks it:

- classes holding a `bigint` (num-bigint's serde form is `[sign,
digits]`, not BAML's JSON number);
- classes holding a `uint8array` (BAML has no JSON form for it);
- classes holding functions or handles;
- BAML standard-library classes, because several of them serialize
through a `baml.ToJson` override (`baml.time.PlainDate` is a date
string).

The impls are structural, so a `baml.ToJson` override on a user class is
not applied. The symbol pool doesn't record `implements` yet. This is
noted in the generated `Cargo.toml`.

## Tests

- `sdkgen_rust` unit tests (74 passed) cover the manifest feature, the
class, enum and union shapes, classes and unions holding `json`, and the
types that get no impls.
- A new `type_shapes` fixture namespace, `ns_json_interchange`, adds
generic `to_json<T>` / `from_json<T>` wrappers around `baml.json`. Seven
Rust end-to-end tests compare serde_json and BAML on the same values and
the same text:
- classes, optional fields (absent and `null`), enums, unions, maps,
lists, nested classes and keyword-named fields;
- a class with `json`, `json?` and `json[]` fields, including `i64::MIN`
and `u64::MAX`;
  - BAML reads serde's output back, and serde reads BAML's;
  - inputs that BAML rejects are rejected by both.
- The Rust sdk-test harness now runs `clippy` and `cargo test` on each
fixture crate with `--all-features`, so every generated fixture type
compiles with the feature on and is linted with `-D warnings`. `cargo
nextest run -p sdk_test_rust`: 17/17 passed.
- The new fixture namespace is shared: the Go, Python and TypeScript
`type_shapes` suites pass with it (10/10), and the Java, C++, Swift and
TypeScript-web generators emit it without errors.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Generated Rust SDK types now support optional Serde serialization and
deserialization for compatible classes, enums, and unions, using their
BAML field and variant names.
* Compatible types can be used with BAML JSON interchange, including
nested values, optional fields, and JSON fields.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Union deserialization now checks matching variants in declaration
order.
* **Tests**
* Rust SDK checks now include all features and cover JSON interchange,
serialization, and invalid input handling.
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