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## Unify the two metadata override mechanisms into one Twenty had **two** override mechanisms: - **`standardOverrides`** — a bespoke JSONB column on `objectMetadata`/`fieldMetadata` with typed DTOs and a per-locale `translations` map, resolved by two i18n-aware resolvers. - **`OverridableEntity.overrides`** — a flat, registry-driven JSONB blob on view / view-field / view-field-group / command-menu-item / page-layout-tab / page-layout-widget, resolved by a plain spread. This PR collapses them into **one** concept: a single `overrides` blob, one registry-driven overridable set, one i18n-aware read path, and one write path (`computeMetadataOverridesBlob`, extracted in #22404). Object/field **stay on `SyncableEntity`** (not reparented to `OverridableEntity`) so their `isActive` default stays **FALSE** — this sidesteps the `isActive` default conflict entirely. ### GraphQL breaking change (accepted) The `standardOverrides` field is **removed** with no deprecation alias — `overrides` (a `JSON` scalar) is exposed instead on `Object` and `Field`. Product confirmed negligible external usage; the front-end has no hand-written consumer (only generated types), which are regenerated here. ### Commit structure (reviewable commit-by-commit) 1. **Unified resolver + parity harness** — `resolveEffectiveEntityProperty` is a strict superset of the three legacy resolvers; a corpus parity spec compares it against a *frozen reference* of the old logic across every locale, `isStandardApp` branch and override shape. 2. **Registry-driven** — object/field presentation props tagged `isOverridable` + `translatable`; the overridable/translatable sets are derived from the registry (a test asserts they equal the legacy hardcoded lists). 3. **Rename + swap + delete** — `standardOverrides` → `overrides` across entities, DTOs, flat/universal types, producers, the ~12 resolve/write/create/sync call sites, mocks and specs; the reconciler's two compare entries collapse to one; the three legacy resolvers, both DTOs and the hardcoded constants/types are deleted. 4. **Migration (zero-downtime, two-phase)** — split across two releases so a rolling deploy never drops a column a previous-release pod still `SELECT`s: - **2.19 fast** — add the `overrides` column (schema only). - **2.19 slow** — backfill `overrides` from `standardOverrides` in `runDataMigration` (kept out of the schema transaction so the bulk write doesn't hold the ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock; skipped on fresh installs, which have no data to copy). - **2.20 fast** — drop the legacy `standardOverrides` column (gated by `TWENTY_NEXT_VERSIONS`, so it stays dormant until the instance reaches 2.20). 5. **Front/client-SDK regen** — regenerated metadata GraphQL types. 6. **Integration specs + i18n** — updated the standard object/field update integration specs + snapshots, and the reworded validator message catalog entry. ### Rolling-deploy safety `standardOverrides` is retained through 2.19 and only dropped in 2.20, mirroring the codebase's deferred-drop convention (`isUIReadOnly`/`isCustom`). During the 2.19 rollout both columns exist, so old and new pods coexist without "column does not exist" errors. The backfill lives in a slow `runDataMigration` (per the `no-data-mutation-in-fast-instance-command` rule) so it doesn't stall reads. ### `isActive` guard The migration never reads or writes `isActive`; the backfill asserts the active-row count is unchanged and aborts otherwise. Verified on a real DB: apply + revert preserves the blob **and** the nested `translations` map, with `isActive` counts identical before/after. ### Verification (local) - `nx typecheck twenty-server` + `nx typecheck twenty-front` — green - `nx lint:diff-with-main twenty-server` (oxlint `--type-aware` + oxfmt) — green - `nx test twenty-server` — green (unit + parity + registry + migration tests) - `nx run twenty-server:test:integration:with-db-reset` — green - `database:reset` applies the 2.19 phases and leaves **both** columns present (2.20 drop stays dormant); backfill + revert round-trip verified on a real DB - Metadata integration suites (standard object/field update, application sync) pass end-to-end against the two-column schema - Metadata GraphQL types regenerated against a booted server; zero `standardOverrides` references remain in application code (only the migration commands + the legacy schema baseline) --------- Co-authored-by: prastoin <paul@twenty.com>
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