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feat(typegen): build supabase-typegen from source at the pinned supabase-swift commit - #360

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supabase gen types --lang swift now builds supabase-typegen from source at the supabase-swift commit in the app's nearest Package.resolved, instead of downloading the prebuilt release binary. This adds no new trust: the app already runs supabase-swift code from that commit, and the build uses the generator's committed Package.resolved (--disable-automatic-resolution) and the user's own toolchain. Branch and revision pins now work too, not only version pins.

Resolution order: SUPABASE_TYPEGEN, then the cached or freshly built binary for the pinned revision, then PATH (also on Windows). The build accepts only a 40-character lowercase hex SHA. It checks that git and swift are on PATH, fetches the single commit into a temporary folder, checks HEAD, builds, checks --version against a version pin, and renames the binary into <cache>/supabase/typegen/<revision>/. The download code (fetch, tar extraction, asset table) is removed.

Beyond the issue's design:

  • The commit must be upstream's. GitHub serves every commit of the fork network through the upstream URL, pull request heads included, so fetching the pinned SHA alone would let a Package.resolved in an untrusted project get a fork's code built and run. A version pin's tag (<version> or v<version>, peeled for annotated tags, via git ls-remote) must point at the revision. A branch pin's revision, or a bare revision pin's on the default branch, must be an ancestor of that upstream branch, checked in a commits-only clone (--filter=tree:0, about 1.5 MB and a second) before anything is fetched or built.
  • The Package.resolved lookup counts only regular files the user owns (another user's /tmp/Package.resolved cannot pick the commit, and a FIFO cannot hang the run), treats malformed JSON as no pin, and rejects a version or branch that is not a plain value before git or the terminal sees it.
  • Linux builds add --static-swift-stdlib. Otherwise the cached binary loads libswiftCore.so from the toolchain that built it and breaks for good once that toolchain is removed or upgraded.
  • Build steps unset git's repository variables (git rev-parse --local-env-vars). Git exports GIT_DIR and GIT_INDEX_FILE to hooks, so inside a pre-commit hook the scratch checkout would otherwise act on the user's repository.
  • An empty or relative XDG_CACHE_HOME is ignored.
  • Failed build steps throw ToolFailedError with the command, exit code and output.

Test evidence

  • bun run test: 89 pass, 0 fail. test/swift.test.ts runs the build through createNodeHost with fake git and swift shell scripts on PATH. It covers the cache hit (no git or swift), branch pins, the Xcode .xcodeproj lookup, concurrent first runs, a non-SHA revision, missing git or swift, a 2.x pin, a failed fetch, a HEAD mismatch, a failed build, a --version mismatch, leaked git variables, a tag that points elsewhere, an annotated tag, a revision off its branch, malformed versions and branches, another user's file, malformed JSON and a FIFO. Each failure case leaves nothing in the cache or the temporary folder.
  • check-types, check-types:consumer, format-and-lint, knip, build: clean.
  • Real build against supabase-swift main (f4f132a, branch pin):
    • macOS, Apple M3, Swift 6.4: first run 322 s, cached run 0.0 s, correct output.
    • Linux aarch64, Swift 6.2.4 (swift:6.2 image): first run 266 s, cached run 0.0 s. The binary runs in plain ubuntu:24.04 with no toolchain.
    • Provenance against the real repository: a fork's PR-head commit pinned as main is rejected in 3.3 s before any content fetch. main's commit as a bare revision pin builds. A 2.55.6 pin at the tag's commit passes the tag check and reports that 2.x has no generator.
    • With the generator's Package.swift range changed, the build fails with "an out-of-date resolved file was detected … not allowed when automatic dependency resolution is disabled".

Host behavior

  • The Supabase CLI host spawns with request.cwd (types.typegen-host.ts#L58-L62), so the build steps run in the temporary folder. The SpawnRequest.cwd doc now allows a directory the language entry chose.
  • That host merges process.env into the child env. Setting a variable to undefined removes it, because Node and Bun skip undefined values (checked in both).

Unverified: Xcode 26.0 exactly (tested with Swift 6.4); Linux x86_64; a real 3.0.0-alpha.1 tag (none exists yet, so the --version check ran only with fakes).

Follow-ups

  • SDK-3044: supabase-swift docs for the first-run build.
  • The CLI needs the new @supabase/typegen and a SIDE_EFFECTS.md update (spawns git and swift, writes the cache, fetches from github.com). It depends on CLI-3134 for HOME and XDG_CACHE_HOME.

Fixes SDK-3043

…ase-swift commit

supabase gen types --lang swift now builds supabase-typegen from the
supabase-swift commit in the app's nearest Package.resolved, with the
generator's committed dependency versions and the user's toolchain,
instead of downloading the prebuilt release binary. The binary is cached
per commit. Linux builds link the Swift runtime statically, and the
build steps remove git's repository variables so a git hook cannot
point them at the user's repository.

Fixes SDK-3043
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  • New Features
    • Swift type generation can now build its generator from the project’s pinned Swift package revision and reuse a cached build.
    • Generation can use a configured executable or find one on your PATH when no valid revision is available, including on Windows.
    • Invalid revisions, missing tools, and build or version mismatches now produce clear errors.
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    • Updated Swift setup and requirements, including supported toolchain versions and Linux build details.

Swift generation now builds supabase-typegen from the revision pinned in the nearest Package.resolved when no override or applicable PATH fallback is selected. The implementation checks the revision and any pinned version, caches the built executable, and removes temporary build files. The tests cover source builds, cache reuse, fallback selection, and build failures. Documentation describes the new build and resolution paths.

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  participant createSwift
  participant resolveBinary
  participant git
  participant swift
  participant executableCache
  createSwift->>resolveBinary: Resolve the generator
  resolveBinary->>git: Fetch and verify the pinned revision on a cache miss
  resolveBinary->>swift: Build the generator from source
  swift-->>resolveBinary: Return build result
  resolveBinary->>executableCache: Cache the verified executable
  resolveBinary-->>createSwift: Return generator path
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Source-built Swift type generation can fail when different CPU architectures share one cache directory, for example CI jobs that share XDG_CACHE_HOME. Most setups are unaffected, and the failure can be worked around. A small cache-key fix before merge would close the gap.

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- Line 143: Update the cached binary path construction around cacheDirectory,
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Include the host architecture in the cached binary path.

The cache path is <cache>/supabase/typegen/<revision>/supabase-typegen. It has no architecture segment. If hosts with different architectures share the cache root, for example Linux x86_64 and aarch64 CI jobs sharing XDG_CACHE_HOME, the second host can reuse the first host's binary. The existence check then skips the build, and spawning that binary can fail on the second host.

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--- "a/packages/typegen/src/languages/swift.ts"
+++ "b/packages/typegen/src/languages/swift.ts"
@@ -138,11 +138,12 @@
       message: `The supabase-swift pin in ${host.cwd}'s Package.resolved has revision "${revision}", which is not a 40-character lowercase hex commit SHA. Resolve the package again, or: ${installHint}`,
     });
   }
   const path = join(
     cacheDirectory(host.env, dependencies.platform),
     revision,
+    process.arch,
     BINARY,
   );
   if (!existsSync(path)) {
     await build({ host, spawn, dependencies, revision, version, path });
   }

The fix changes only the cache key. Existing cache entries at the old path are not reused.

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Update the cached binary path construction around cacheDirectory, revision, and BINARY to include the host architecture as a distinct path segment, so binaries are not shared across architectures. Keep the change limited to the cache key; do not reuse entries stored at the previous architecture-agnostic path.

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GitHub serves every commit of the fork network through the upstream URL,
pull request heads included, so fetching the pinned SHA alone let a
Package.resolved get a fork's code built and run. A version pin's tag
must now point at the revision, and any other pin's revision must be on
its upstream branch, checked in a commits-only clone before the fetch.

The Package.resolved lookup also skips files the user does not own and
non-regular files, treats malformed JSON as no pin, and rejects a
version or branch that is not a plain value before git or the terminal
sees it.

Refs SDK-3043
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Superseded by #361 (SDK-3045). #361 keeps this PR's two commits and adds the new design on top: a swift-typegen-source option (version, branch, SHA or local path), then the lockfile pin, then the latest 3.x release. It also removes SUPABASE_TYPEGEN and the PATH fallback. The real-build evidence above still covers the shared build steps.

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