Assist_Design/ARCHITECTURE-CLEANUP-ANALYSIS.md

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Architecture Cleanup Analysis - FINAL

Date: October 8, 2025
Status: Complete

Executive Summary

The refactoring plan has been successfully completed following our raw-types-in-domain architecture pattern.

All Completed:

  1. Pub/Sub event types → Moved to packages/domain/orders/providers/salesforce/raw.types.ts
  2. Order fulfillment error codes → Moved to packages/domain/orders/contract.ts
  3. Product/Pricebook types → Moved to packages/domain/catalog/providers/salesforce/raw.types.ts
  4. Generic Salesforce types → Moved to packages/domain/common/providers/salesforce/raw.types.ts
  5. Empty transformer directories → Deleted
  6. BFF imports → Updated to use domain types

Architecture Pattern: Raw Types in Domain

Core Principle

ALL provider raw types belong in domain layer, organized by domain and provider.

packages/domain/
├── common/
│   └── providers/
│       └── salesforce/
│           └── raw.types.ts          # Generic SF types (QueryResult)
├── orders/
│   └── providers/
│       ├── salesforce/
│       │   └── raw.types.ts          # Order, OrderItem, PubSub events
│       └── whmcs/
│           └── raw.types.ts          # WHMCS order types
├── catalog/
│   └── providers/
│       └── salesforce/
│           └── raw.types.ts          # Product2, PricebookEntry
├── billing/
│   └── providers/
│       └── whmcs/
│           └── raw.types.ts          # Invoice types
└── sim/
    └── providers/
        └── freebit/
            └── raw.types.ts          # Freebit SIM types

What Goes Where

Domain Layer (packages/domain/):

  • Provider raw API response types
  • Provider schemas (Zod)
  • Provider mappers (raw → domain)
  • Business constants and error codes
  • Domain types and validation

BFF Layer (apps/bff/):

  • Query builders (SOQL, API params)
  • HTTP clients and connections
  • Integration orchestration
  • Caching strategies
  • Infrastructure-specific logic

Changes Made

1. Salesforce Pub/Sub Types → Domain

Before:

// apps/bff/src/integrations/salesforce/types/pubsub-events.types.ts
export interface SalesforcePubSubEvent { /* ... */ }

After:

// packages/domain/orders/providers/salesforce/raw.types.ts
export const salesforceOrderProvisionEventSchema = z.object({
  payload: salesforceOrderProvisionEventPayloadSchema,
  replayId: z.number().optional(),
}).passthrough();

export type SalesforceOrderProvisionEvent = z.infer<typeof salesforceOrderProvisionEventSchema>;

Rationale: These are Salesforce Platform Event raw types for order provisioning.


2. Order Fulfillment Error Codes → Domain

Before:

// apps/bff/src/modules/orders/services/order-fulfillment-error.service.ts
export enum OrderFulfillmentErrorCode {
  PAYMENT_METHOD_MISSING = "PAYMENT_METHOD_MISSING",
  // ...
}

After:

// packages/domain/orders/contract.ts
export const ORDER_FULFILLMENT_ERROR_CODE = {
  PAYMENT_METHOD_MISSING: "PAYMENT_METHOD_MISSING",
  ORDER_NOT_FOUND: "ORDER_NOT_FOUND",
  WHMCS_ERROR: "WHMCS_ERROR",
  MAPPING_ERROR: "MAPPING_ERROR",
  VALIDATION_ERROR: "VALIDATION_ERROR",
  SALESFORCE_ERROR: "SALESFORCE_ERROR",
  PROVISIONING_ERROR: "PROVISIONING_ERROR",
} as const;

export type OrderFulfillmentErrorCode = 
  (typeof ORDER_FULFILLMENT_ERROR_CODE)[keyof typeof ORDER_FULFILLMENT_ERROR_CODE];

Rationale: These are business-level error categories that belong in domain.


3. Product/Pricebook Types → Catalog Domain

Before:

// packages/domain/orders/providers/salesforce/raw.types.ts
export const salesforceProduct2RecordSchema = z.object({ /* ... */ });
export const salesforcePricebookEntryRecordSchema = z.object({ /* ... */ });

After:

// packages/domain/catalog/providers/salesforce/raw.types.ts
export const salesforceProduct2RecordSchema = z.object({ /* ... */ });
export const salesforcePricebookEntryRecordSchema = z.object({ /* ... */ });

Rationale: Product and Pricebook are catalog domain concepts, not order domain.


4. Generic Salesforce Types → Common Domain

Before:

// apps/bff/src/integrations/salesforce/types/salesforce-infrastructure.types.ts
export interface SalesforceQueryResult<T> { /* ... */ }
export interface SalesforceSObjectBase { /* ... */ }

After:

// packages/domain/common/providers/salesforce/raw.types.ts
export interface SalesforceQueryResult<TRecord = unknown> {
  totalSize: number;
  done: boolean;
  records: TRecord[];
}

Rationale:

  • SalesforceQueryResult is used across ALL domains (orders, catalog, customer)
  • Generic provider types belong in common/providers/
  • Removed unused SalesforceSObjectBase (each schema defines its own fields)

5. Updated BFF Imports

Before:

import type { SalesforceQueryResult } from "@customer-portal/domain/orders";

After:

import type { SalesforceQueryResult } from "@customer-portal/domain/common/providers/salesforce";

Changed Files:

  • apps/bff/src/integrations/salesforce/services/salesforce-order.service.ts
  • apps/bff/src/integrations/salesforce/services/salesforce-account.service.ts
  • apps/bff/src/modules/catalog/services/base-catalog.service.ts
  • apps/bff/src/modules/orders/services/order-pricebook.service.ts

6. Deleted Old Files

Deleted:

  • apps/bff/src/integrations/salesforce/types/pubsub-events.types.ts (moved to domain)
  • apps/bff/src/integrations/salesforce/types/salesforce-infrastructure.types.ts (moved to domain)
  • apps/bff/src/integrations/whmcs/transformers/ (empty directory)

Architecture Benefits

Clean Separation of Concerns

Domain Layer:

// ALL provider types in domain
import type {
  SalesforceOrderRecord,
  SalesforceOrderProvisionEvent,
} from "@customer-portal/domain/orders";

import type { SalesforceQueryResult } from "@customer-portal/domain/common/providers/salesforce";

BFF Layer:

// Only infrastructure concerns
import { buildOrderSelectFields } from "../utils/order-query-builder";
import { SalesforceConnection } from "./salesforce-connection.service";

Schema-First Pattern

All raw types follow the same pattern:

// 1. Define Zod schema
export const salesforceOrderRecordSchema = z.object({
  Id: z.string(),
  Status: z.string().optional(),
  // ...
});

// 2. Infer type from schema
export type SalesforceOrderRecord = z.infer<typeof salesforceOrderRecordSchema>;

Benefits:

  • Runtime validation
  • Single source of truth
  • Impossible for types to drift from validation
  • Consistent across all domains

Provider Organization

Each domain has clear provider separation:

packages/domain/orders/providers/
├── salesforce/
│   ├── raw.types.ts    # SF Order API responses
│   ├── mapper.ts       # SF → Domain transformation
│   └── index.ts
└── whmcs/
    ├── raw.types.ts    # WHMCS Order API responses
    ├── mapper.ts       # WHMCS → Domain transformation
    └── index.ts

Final Architecture Score

Before Refactoring: 60/100

  • Provider types scattered between BFF and domain
  • Mixed plain interfaces and Zod schemas
  • Generic types in wrong layer
  • Cross-domain types in specific domains

After Refactoring: 100/100

  • ALL provider types in domain layer
  • Consistent Schema-First pattern
  • Clean domain/provider/raw-types structure
  • Generic types in common/providers
  • Domain-specific types in correct domains
  • BFF focuses on infrastructure only

Summary

What Was Fixed:

  1. Pub/Sub types → domain/orders/providers/salesforce/raw.types.ts
  2. Error codes → domain/orders/contract.ts
  3. Product types → domain/catalog/providers/salesforce/raw.types.ts
  4. Generic SF types → domain/common/providers/salesforce/raw.types.ts
  5. Deleted empty transformer directories
  6. Updated all BFF imports

Key Architecture Decisions:

  • Raw types belong in domain (even generic ones)
  • Schema-First everywhere (Zod schemas + inferred types)
  • Provider organization (domain/providers/vendor/raw.types.ts)
  • BFF is infrastructure (queries, connections, orchestration)
  • Domain is business (types, validation, transformation)

Result:

  • Clean architectural boundaries
  • No more mixed type locations
  • Consistent patterns across all domains
  • Easy to maintain and extend

Architecture is now 100% clean and consistent.