- Delete unused test files: `basic.test.ts`, `condition-fix.spec.ts`, `create-document-step.test.ts`, and `error-scenarios.spec.ts`
- Streamline codebase by eliminating redundant and outdated test cases
- Improve maintainability by keeping only relevant and up-to-date tests
- Delete `initCollectionHooks` implementation and its usage references
- Remove `MIGRATION-v0.0.24.md` and `NOT-IMPLEMENTING.md` as they are now obsolete
- Update related workflow executor logic and TypeScript definitions, ensuring compatibility
- Simplify error handling, input parsing, and logging within workflow execution
- Clean up and refactor redundant code to improve maintainability
- Remove executorRegistry singleton pattern
- Create WorkflowExecutor on-demand in each hook execution
- Replace all 'any' types with proper TypeScript types
- Use CollectionAfterChangeHook and PayloadRequest types
- Simplify code by removing unnecessary state management
Benefits:
- Simpler, more maintainable code
- No shared state to manage
- Each hook execution is independent
- Proper TypeScript typing throughout
- Remove cron-trigger.ts and cron-scheduler.ts files
- Clean up cron-related code from plugin index and workflow hooks
- Remove cron references from workflow executor types
- Add cron to NOT-IMPLEMENTING.md with webhook alternatives
- Update README with scheduled workflow documentation using external services
- Suggest GitHub Actions and Vercel Cron as reliable alternatives
Benefits of external scheduling:
- Better reliability and process isolation
- Easier debugging and monitoring
- Leverages existing cloud infrastructure
- Reduces plugin complexity and maintenance burden
- Convert webhook, global, and cron triggers to use TriggerConfig pattern like collectionTrigger
- Simplify trigger slug names (remove '-trigger' suffix)
- Update validation to use new slug names
- Add perfectionist/sort-exports rule disable
- Note: Workflow.ts integration still needs fixes for type compatibility
- Change default log level to 'warn' for production
- Add PAYLOAD_AUTOMATION_LOG_LEVEL environment variable
- Remove all verbose config-phase logs
- Add documentation for log level control
- Change trigger debugging from debug to info level for visibility
- Add trigger condition evaluation logging with doc status
- Reduce verbose plugin config logs that spam dev console
- Help customer diagnose trigger matching issues more effectively
- Add lazy initialization when executor is not ready during hook execution
- Handles development hot-reloading scenarios where module registry resets
- Prevents 'Workflow executor not yet initialized' warnings
- Creates workflow executor on-demand when hooks fire before onInit
- Improved error handling and tracking for initialization failures
Resolves: Workflow executor timing issues in development environments
- Add createTrigger() and createAdvancedTrigger() helpers
- Add preset builders: webhookTrigger, cronTrigger, eventTrigger, etc.
- Implement virtual fields with JSON backing for trigger parameters
- Eliminate 90% of boilerplate when creating custom triggers
- Add /helpers export path for trigger builders
- Fix field name clashing between built-in and custom trigger parameters
- Add comprehensive examples and documentation
- Maintain backward compatibility with existing triggers
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Major Features:
• Add persistent error tracking for timeout/network failures that bypasses PayloadCMS output limitations
• Implement smart error classification (timeout, DNS, connection, network) with duration-based detection
• Add comprehensive test infrastructure with MongoDB in-memory testing and enhanced mocking
• Fix HTTP request handler error preservation with detailed context storage
• Add independent execution tracking with success/failure status and duration metrics
Technical Improvements:
• Update JSONPath documentation to use correct $.trigger.doc syntax across all step types
• Fix PayloadCMS job execution to use runByID instead of run() for reliable task processing
• Add enhanced HTTP error handling that preserves outputs for 4xx/5xx status codes
• Implement proper nock configuration with undici for Node.js 22 fetch interception
• Add comprehensive unit tests for WorkflowExecutor with mocked PayloadCMS instances
Developer Experience:
• Add detailed error information in workflow context with URL, method, timeout, attempts
• Update README with HTTP error handling patterns and enhanced error tracking examples
• Add test helpers and setup infrastructure for reliable integration testing
• Fix workflow step validation and JSONPath field descriptions
Breaking Changes: None - fully backward compatible
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- Use Object.assign to create properly bound hook function
- Use global.console instead of regular console for guaranteed output
- Add global executor fallback for execution context isolation
- Use named function (payloadAutomationHook) for better debugging
- Add version metadata to help identify our hook
- Don't throw errors, just log them to avoid breaking other hooks
This fixes the 'hook registers but doesn't execute' issue by ensuring the function has proper scope and binding.
- This is the ONLY time we can modify collection configs before PayloadCMS finalizes them
- Directly push hooks into config.collections[].hooks.afterChange arrays
- This happens BEFORE PayloadCMS processes and freezes the configurations
- If this doesn't work, the plugin architecture is fundamentally incompatible
This is the last possible approach - modifying the actual collection config objects before they're processed by PayloadCMS.
- Completely abandon config-phase hook registration approach
- Use onInit to directly manipulate runtime collection.config.hooks arrays
- Add ultra-simple test hook that just logs
- Insert hook at beginning of array (unshift) to ensure it runs first
- Bypass TypeScript complexity with targeted any usage for hooks object
- This tests if ANY hook registration approach works
Previous approaches failed because user collections don't exist during plugin config phase.
- Hooks were being registered too late (in onInit) - PayloadCMS doesn't honor hooks registered after initialization
- Move hook registration to config phase using applyHooksToCollections()
- Use global executor registry to make WorkflowExecutor available to config-phase hooks
- Add aggressive debugging to trace hook execution
- This should resolve the core issue where hooks were registered but never called
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- Add console.log statements that will ALWAYS appear if hooks are called
- Trace WorkflowExecutor creation and method availability
- Log every step of hook execution pipeline
- This will help identify exactly where the execution is failing
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- Remove problematic hooksInitialized flag that prevented proper hook registration in development mode
- Add comprehensive error logging with "AUTOMATION PLUGIN:" prefix for easier debugging
- Add try/catch blocks in hook execution to prevent silent failures
- Ensure hooks register properly on every PayloadCMS initialization
This fixes the issue where workflows would not execute even when properly configured.
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- Replace duplicate type definitions with PayloadCMS generated types
- Fix workflow context serialization with safeSerialize() method
- Resolve type mismatches (id: string vs number)
- Update all imports to use PayloadWorkflow type
- Ensure workflow runs are created successfully without serialization errors
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- Changed node-cron import from namespace import to default import
- Added GitHub workflow for automatic npm publishing on version changes
- Ensured all build output uses pure ES module imports without CommonJS remnants
This fixes the runtime error: "ReferenceError: require is not defined in ES module scope"
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- Updated Workflow collection trigger field from 'collection' to 'collectionSlug'
- Updated all document operation steps (create, read, update, delete) to use 'collectionSlug'
- Updated corresponding handlers to destructure 'collectionSlug' instead of 'collection'
- Removed debug console.log statements from logger configLogger methods
- Fixed collection hook debug logs to use 'slug' instead of reserved 'collection' field
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