Of 26 findings raised across five auditors, 23 were refuted on a second
pass. These three survived.
**A renamed property's old key is still writable.** The README, the landing
page and two doc comments all said that once a property carries
@JsonProperty its original name "is no longer accepted on input". It is no
longer *mapped* — but it is not rejected either. Unlike @JsonReadOnly,
whose JSON name goes into the blocked set, the old key falls through to the
unknown-key policy, and the default `allow` copies it onto the instance
untouched. Reproduced against dist:
@JsonProperty('home_address') @JsonType(() => Addr) @ValidateNested()
address!: Addr;
toInstanceSync(Order, { address: { city: 'Paris' } })
-> address is a plain object, instanceof Addr === false
-> validateSync() returns [] <- nothing complains
-> round-trips out as home_address <- silently accepted
Blocking the old key would fix it, but would also swallow the
`unknownKeys: 'error'` report a strict caller gets today, which is arguably
the more useful signal. That is a judgement call the library has not made,
so this commit states the behaviour accurately everywhere it was stated
wrongly and pins it with five tests covering the default, `strip`, `error`
and the @JsonAlias fix — so it cannot drift either way while the question
is open.
**@IsNotEmpty and @IsEmpty are not complements.** `[]` and `{}` pass BOTH:
isNotEmpty checks only null/undefined/'' while isEmpty also treats empty
arrays and objects as empty. Listed one line apart as "must not be empty" /
"must be empty", they invited exactly the wrong inference.
**unknownKeys is deserialization-only**, in a group whose blurb says these
apply per call or via configure().
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SAcqrz3FcadkYr3xG32CjK
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