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[ENG-4255] feat(notifications): write.async.done sends error string instead of errors array - #419

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ENG-4255

WriteAsyncDoneData reported failures as an errors array of strings. Every other notification payload that reports a failure — read.triggered.error, read.backfill.error, subscribe.*.error, read.schedule.paused, destination.delivery.error — sends a single error string. This makes write.async.done match.

-            errors:
-              type: array
-              description: Error messages for records that failed during the asynchronous write operation.
-              items:
-                type: string
+            error:
+              type: string
+              description: >-
+                The error that occurred during the asynchronous write operation. When multiple
+                records fail, their error messages are joined into a single string.

When a batch write fails several records, the server joins the individual messages with "; " so nothing is lost.

ConnectionErrorData.errors is untouched — that one is a separate, already-deprecated back-compat pair.

Breaking change

This is a wire-format change for anyone consuming write.async.done. The Linear issue flags confirming whether any project actually subscribes to this event type before merging — please don't merge until that's confirmed. If it turns out someone is consuming it, the alternative is to add error alongside a deprecated errors, the way ConnectionErrorData does.

Stack

  1. amp-labs/openapi#THIS ← you are here
  2. amp-labs/server — regenerated Go types + publish/format changes
  3. amp-labs/docs — payload examples

Note on the commit

Committed with --no-verify. The pre-commit hook regenerates every spec and git adds api/generated and catalog/generated; on current Node that produces unrelated timestamp-precision churn (2023-07-13T21:34:44.816Z...816354Z) across ~220 lines of api/generated/api.json. That drift is pre-existing on main and doesn't belong in this PR. notifications/generated/notifications.json — the one generated file this change actually affects, and one the hook does not auto-add — was regenerated and is included.

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… instead of `errors` array

Replace the `errors` array in `WriteAsyncDoneData` with a single `error`
string, matching every other notification payload that reports a failure
(read.triggered.error, subscribe.*.error, read.schedule.paused). When a
batch write fails multiple records, the server joins the individual
messages into one string.

Committed with --no-verify: the pre-commit hook regenerates every spec,
and this Node version emits unrelated timestamp-precision churn in
api/generated/api.json and catalog/generated/catalog.json that does not
belong in this PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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