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Summary

Fixes #11795. Related to #11794.

NoInfer on the updater input interferes with TypeScript control-flow narrowing when a discriminated union is spread inside the callback. Keep the inference guard on the updater result, while allowing the input to retain normal narrowing.

Changes

  • remove NoInfer from the setQueryData updater input type
  • add a discriminated-union regression case that narrows and spreads the selected variant

Validation

  • TypeScript 5.8.3 strict compile of queryClient.test-d.tsx
  • queryClient.test.tsx: 156 tests passed
  • query-core TypeScript compatibility matrix passed

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved type inference for setQueryData updater functions, allowing narrowed data types to be spread and updated while preserving their specific type.

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setQueryData no longer applies NoInfer to the updater input type. A compile-time test checks that narrowing and spreading a tagged union preserves the selected variant.

Changes

setQueryData updater types

Layer / File(s) Summary
Updater input inference
packages/query-core/src/queryClient.ts, packages/query-core/src/__tests__/queryClient.test-d.tsx
The updater input type no longer uses NoInfer. The type test checks narrowing to the 'a' variant and spreading it while updating value.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: sukvvon

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c1de3

A mismatched pre-typed updater can compile for a tagged key and put a value in the cache with the wrong type. This is a bounded type-safety risk; resolve it or accept it before merging.

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Security architecture risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c1de3

The change improves updater type narrowing without changing the runtime cache-write path. No material security risk was identified in the reviewed change.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated impact is on compile-time callers of the query-core cache API. The reviewed production change does not add execution authority or expand the runtime cache-write scope; downstream framework impact is not established by the supplied name-only references.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — NoInfer and DataTag participate in static typing rather than runtime trust enforcement. Changing updater input inference therefore does not remove an existing runtime security control in the inspected method.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: preserving discriminated-union narrowing in setQueryData updater callbacks.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the change, its motivation, and validation results. It omits the template’s checklist and release-impact sections, but it is otherwise complete and relevant.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #11795 requires setQueryData updater callbacks to preserve discriminated-union narrowing when a narrowed value is spread, without annotating the updater parameter. queryClient.ts removes `No…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The diff changes only the setQueryData updater input type and adds its focused discriminated-union type regression test. Both changes directly address issue #11795. No unrelated changes appear in th…
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Review comments at @packages/query-core/src/queryClient.ts:
- Line 292: Update the `QueryClient.setQueryData` type signature so
`TInferredQueryFnData` cannot be widened from a pre-typed updater when the query
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queryKey: TTaggedQueryKey,
updater: Updater<
NoInfer<TInferredQueryFnData> | undefined,
TInferredQueryFnData | undefined,

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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printf '%s\n' '--- current signature and local definitions ---'
rg -n -C 8 'setQueryData|type Updater|interface Updater' packages/query-core/src/queryClient.ts packages/query-core/src
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant type tests ---'
rg -n -C 5 'setQueryData|DataTag|tagged|Updater' packages/query-core --glob '*.test-d.tsx'
printf '%s\n' '--- typescript declarations ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- setQueryData declarations in type tests ---'
rg -n -C 4 'setQueryData|dataTag|DataTag' packages/query-core --glob '*.test-d.tsx'
printf '%s\n' '--- tag and NoInfer definitions ---'
rg -n -C 4 'InferDataFromTag|DataTag|NoInfer' packages/query-core/src
printf '%s\n' '--- package TypeScript configuration/dependencies ---'
cat package.json | grep -n -C 2 '"typescript"'
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sed -n '125,185p' packages/query-core/src/types.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- signature and updater type ---'
sed -n '285,318p' packages/query-core/src/queryClient.ts
sed -n '88,105p' packages/query-core/src/utils.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- compiler availability and package metadata ---'
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grep -n -A 5 -B 3 '"typescript"' package.json packages/query-core/package.json 2>/dev/null || true
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TS_MODULE="$TS_MODULE"
export TS_MODULE
node <<'JS'
const ts = require(process.env.TS_MODULE)
console.log(`TypeScript ${ts.version}`)

const base = `
type QueryKey = readonly unknown[]
declare const dataTagSymbol: unique symbol
type DataTag<TType, TValue> = TType & { [dataTagSymbol]: TValue }
type InferDataFromTag<TQueryFnData, TTaggedQueryKey extends QueryKey> =
  TTaggedQueryKey extends DataTag<unknown, infer TaggedValue>
    ? TaggedValue
    : TQueryFnData
type Updater<TInput, TOutput> = TOutput | ((input: TInput) => TOutput)
declare const key: DataTag<readonly ['key'], number>
declare const updateString: (prev: string | undefined) => string | undefined
`

function check(label, inputType, body) {
  const source = `${base}
declare function setQueryData<
  TQueryFnData = unknown,
  TTaggedQueryKey extends QueryKey = QueryKey,
  TInferredQueryFnData = InferDataFromTag<TQueryFnData, TTaggedQueryKey>,
>(
  queryKey: TTaggedQueryKey,
  updater: Updater<${inputType}, NoInfer<TInferredQueryFnData> | undefined>,
): NoInfer<TInferredQueryFnData> | undefined
${body}
`
  const fileName = '/virtual/probe.ts'
  const options = { strict: true, noEmit: true, skipLibCheck: true, types: [] }
  const host = ts.createCompilerHost(options)
  const originalGetSourceFile = host.getSourceFile.bind(host)
  host.getSourceFile = (name, languageVersion, ...rest) =>
    name === fileName
      ? ts.createSourceFile(name, source, languageVersion, true)
      : originalGetSourceFile(name, languageVersion, ...rest)
  host.fileExists = ((original) => (name) =>
    name === fileName || original(name))(host.fileExists.bind(host))
  host.readFile = ((original) => (name) =>
    name === fileName ? source : original(name))(host.readFile.bind(host))
  const program = ts.createProgram([fileName], options, host)
  const diagnostics = ts.getPreEmitDiagnostics(program)
  console.log(`${label}: ${diagnostics.length === 0 ? 'no diagnostics' : diagnostics.map(d => ts.flattenDiagnosticMessageText(d.messageText, '\n')).join(' | ')}`)
}

check(
  'current input',
  'TInferredQueryFnData | undefined',
  `const result = setQueryData(key, updateString)
const stringResult: string | undefined = result
// @ts-expect-error tagged key data should remain number
const numberResult: number | undefined = result`,
)

check(
  'previous NoInfer input',
  'NoInfer<TInferredQueryFnData> | undefined',
  `// @ts-expect-error updater parameter and result must match tagged key data
setQueryData(key, updateString)
const result = setQueryData(key, (prev) => prev)
const numberResult: number | undefined = result`,
)
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export TS_MODULE
node <<'JS'
const ts = require(process.env.TS_MODULE)
console.log(`TypeScript ${ts.version}`)

const base = `
type QueryKey = readonly unknown[]
declare const dataTagSymbol: unique symbol
type DataTag<TType, TValue> = TType & { [dataTagSymbol]: TValue }
type InferDataFromTag<TQueryFnData, TTaggedQueryKey extends QueryKey> =
  TTaggedQueryKey extends DataTag<unknown, infer TaggedValue>
    ? TaggedValue
    : TQueryFnData
type Updater<TInput, TOutput> = TOutput | ((input: TInput) => TOutput)
declare const key: DataTag<readonly ['key'], number>
declare const updateString: (prev: string | undefined) => string | undefined
`

function check(label, inputType, body) {
  const source = `${base}
declare function setQueryData<
  TQueryFnData = unknown,
  TTaggedQueryKey extends QueryKey = QueryKey,
  TInferredQueryFnData = InferDataFromTag<TQueryFnData, TTaggedQueryKey>,
>(
  queryKey: TTaggedQueryKey,
  updater: Updater<${inputType}, NoInfer<TInferredQueryFnData> | undefined>,
): NoInfer<TInferredQueryFnData> | undefined
${body}
`
  const fileName = '/virtual/probe.ts'
  const options = { strict: true, noEmit: true, skipLibCheck: true, types: [] }
  const host = ts.createCompilerHost(options)
  const originalGetSourceFile = host.getSourceFile.bind(host)
  host.getSourceFile = (name, languageVersion, ...rest) =>
    name === fileName
      ? ts.createSourceFile(name, source, languageVersion, true)
      : originalGetSourceFile(name, languageVersion, ...rest)
  host.fileExists = ((original) => (name) =>
    name === fileName || original(name))(host.fileExists.bind(host))
  host.readFile = ((original) => (name) =>
    name === fileName ? source : original(name))(host.readFile.bind(host))
  const program = ts.createProgram([fileName], options, host)
  const diagnostics = ts.getPreEmitDiagnostics(program)
  console.log(`${label}: ${diagnostics.length === 0 ? 'no diagnostics' : diagnostics.map(d => ts.flattenDiagnosticMessageText(d.messageText, '\n')).join(' | ')}`)
}

check(
  'current input',
  'TInferredQueryFnData | undefined',
  `const result = setQueryData(key, updateString)
const stringResult: string | undefined = result
// @ts-expect-error tagged key data should remain number
const numberResult: number | undefined = result`,
)

check(
  'previous NoInfer input',
  'NoInfer<TInferredQueryFnData> | undefined',
  `// @ts-expect-error updater parameter and result must match tagged key data
setQueryData(key, updateString)
const result = setQueryData(key, (prev) => prev)
const numberResult: number | undefined = result`,
)
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cat <<'TS' | tsc --noEmit --strict --skipLibCheck --allowNonTsExtensions --lib esnext /dev/stdin
type QueryKey = readonly unknown[]
declare const tag: unique symbol
type DataTag<T, D> = T & { [tag]: D }
type InferData<F, K extends QueryKey> = K extends DataTag<unknown, infer V> ? V : F
type Updater<I, O> = O | ((input: I) => O)
declare const key: DataTag<readonly ['key'], number>
declare const updateString: (prev: string | undefined) => string | undefined

declare function setQueryData<
  TQueryFnData = unknown,
  TTaggedQueryKey extends QueryKey = QueryKey,
  TInferredQueryFnData = InferData<TQueryFnData, TTaggedQueryKey>,
>(
  queryKey: TTaggedQueryKey,
  updater: Updater<TInferredQueryFnData | undefined, NoInfer<TInferredQueryFnData> | undefined>,
): NoInfer<TInferredQueryFnData> | undefined

const result = setQueryData(key, updateString)
const stringResult: string | undefined = result
// @ts-expect-error the tagged data type should remain number
const numberResult: number | undefined = result
TS
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Length of output: 365


Keep tagged-key data from updater-driven widening.

QueryClient.setQueryData can infer TInferredQueryFnData from a pre-typed updater’s input. A (prev: string | undefined) => string | undefined updater can therefore be accepted for a key tagged with number, and the call can return string | undefined. Keep the tag authoritative and add a regression test for this function-reference case.

Suggested type test
     it('should type the updater if the key is tagged', () => {
       const key = ['key'] as DataTag<Array<string>, number>
       const queryClient = new QueryClient()
       const data = queryClient.setQueryData(key, (prev) => {
         expectTypeOf(prev).toEqualTypeOf<number | undefined>()
         return prev
       })

       expectTypeOf(data).toEqualTypeOf<number | undefined>()
     })
 
+    it('should reject a pre-typed updater that conflicts with the key tag', () => {
+      const key = ['key'] as DataTag<Array<string>, number>
+      const queryClient = new QueryClient()
+      const updater = (prev: string | undefined): string | undefined => prev
+
+      // @ts-expect-error the updater must match the data type tagged on the key
+      queryClient.setQueryData(key, updater)
+    })
+
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Review comment at @packages/query-core/src/queryClient.ts at line 292:
Update the `QueryClient.setQueryData` type signature so `TInferredQueryFnData`
cannot be widened from a pre-typed updater when the query key carries a
`DataTag`; keep the key’s tagged data type authoritative and add a regression
type test rejecting a string updater for a key tagged with number.

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