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feat!: always generate a top-level interface for blocks#16784

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BREAKING: Blocks used to get a top-level interface in payload-types.ts only when interfaceName was set; otherwise the fields were inlined wherever the block appeared.
Now every block always generates a top-level interface. interfaceName becomes an override of the auto-derived name rather than the switch that enables generation. The auto-derived name is a PascalCase form of the slug via toWords(slug, true) ('content-block'ContentBlock).

Reason for this change: as part of lexical type gen improvements, we're outputting generated types that look like this: SerializedBlockNode<Block1 | Block2 | Block3>.

If the blocks (Block1,Block2,Block3) do not exist as top-level interfaces, we cannot reference them in generics like these. And due to a limitation in the json-schema-to-typescript package, we cannot output block types inline within generics. We can output them inline anywhere else, which is what we have been doing so far if no interfaceName was set. But now there is a need for outputting them within generics, which is not possible inline


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@AlessioGr AlessioGr disabled auto-merge May 28, 2026 22:00
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@AlessioGr AlessioGr force-pushed the feat/blocks-always-generate-interface branch from 836b20d to b43d075 Compare May 28, 2026 22:05

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I like the change, I'm just concerned with variations of reused configs in the wild.

  1. Is my assumption correct?
  2. Does it matter?
  3. If yes, what could we do to make the interface names more unique?

Comment thread packages/payload/src/fields/config/types.ts
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DanRibbens previously approved these changes May 29, 2026
@AlessioGr AlessioGr merged commit da6c658 into main Jun 2, 2026
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@AlessioGr AlessioGr deleted the feat/blocks-always-generate-interface branch June 2, 2026 18:43
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