feat: improve param type inference

[luxass]

This PR resolves #1053 by adding automatic type inference for route parameters. When you define a route with parameters using app.get(), app.post(), or any other HTTP method, TypeScript now knows exactly what parameters are available in event.context.params.

Previously, event.context.params was always typed as Record<string, string> | undefined, even when the route pattern clearly defined specific parameters. Now the route pattern is parsed at the type level to extract parameter names and provide full type safety.

Route parameters are now fully typed based on the route pattern you define:

// Before: params were loosely typed
app.get("/user/:id", (event) => {
  const id = event.context.params.id; // string | undefined
});

// After: params are inferred from the route
app.get("/user/:id", (event) => {
  const id = event.context.params.id; // string ✨
});

This works with multiple parameters too:

app.get("/user/:userId/post/:postId", (event) => {
  event.context.params.userId;  // string
  event.context.params.postId;  // string
});

The existing helper functions (getRouterParam and getRouterParams) also benefit from this:

app.get("/hello/:name", (event) => {
  const params = getRouterParams(event); // { name: string }
  const name = getRouterParam(event, "name"); // string
});

Type inference works across all route registration methods like app.get(), app.post(), app.put(), app.delete(), and app.on(). Routes without parameters have params typed as undefined, so you'll know when there are no parameters available.

When you use defineHandler directly (outside of a route), the route pattern isn't available yet, so params remain untyped as Record<string, string> | undefined. You can still manually type them using the routerParams field in EventHandlerRequest if needed. However, when you inline defineHandler with a route, the params are fully typed automatically:

app.get("/hello/:name", defineHandler((event) => {
  event.context.params.name; // string - fully typed!
  
  const params = getRouterParams(event); // { name: string }
  const name = getRouterParam(event, "name"); // string
}));

The implementation leverages InferRouteParams from rou3 (h3js/rou3#168) for route pattern parsing. I have tried to make the types backward compatible, so if you catch something that doesn't work as before, just tell me and i'll fix it 😅

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Route parameters are now inferred from route patterns, including optional and wildcard parameters. Event handlers and parameter lookup helpers provide more specific types.
  • Added utilities for creating requests with an adjusted URL or base URL.
• Bug Fixes
  • Method checks now handle letter case consistently, and 405 responses include an Allow header with supported methods.
  • Forwarded host values are validated before use, and synthesized request URLs use http for relative paths.
  • Decoded route parameters preserve separators.

[pi0]

This is an awesome start. Wondering if we could pair it with InferRouteParams from rou3 (h3js/rou3#168) for app.[method] somehow

[luxass]

This is an awesome start. Wondering if we could pair it with InferRouteParams from rou3 (h3js/rou3#168) for app.[method] somehow

Yea, i have already started working on it locally. But ran into some behaviour issues which i am trying to figure out first 👍🏻

Will include it in this PR when i am done.

[luxass]

@pi0 This PR should be ready for a quick review when you have a moment - happy to adjust anything if needed 😊

I have tried cleaning the overloads from f7c9ece (#1217) up in 42a9512 (#1217), let me know if i should revert that to the multiple inline overloads approach 👍🏻

[pi0]

Sorry, it got delayed @luxass, we will try to review soon (also added @danielroe)

[pi0]

Dear @luxass you don't need to rebase PR on all commits. I can take care of rebase before merge 👍🏼

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Route patterns now provide inferred parameter types for event contexts, handlers, and parameter helpers. Request utilities add URL proxies and update URL parsing, forwarded-header handling, method checks, and 405 response headers.

Changes

Route Types and Request Utilities

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Route parameter inference src/types/_utils.ts, src/types/context.ts, src/event.ts, src/types/h3.ts, src/utils/request.ts, test/unit/types.test-d.ts, test/router.test.ts, docs/2.utils/1.request.md	Route patterns determine parameter shapes for event contexts and registered handlers. Router parameter helpers expose inferred types and preserve encoded separators during decoding. Tests cover inferred route parameters, helper types, and related handler types.
Request URL processing src/utils/request.ts	Request proxies can override URLs and strip a base path. Relative paths use the http scheme, and forwarded protocol and host values receive updated handling.
HTTP method validation src/utils/request.ts	Method checks compare uppercase request methods. A 405 response includes an Allow header, with HEAD added when enabled.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 31065

The remaining issues are bounded: some forwarded URLs lose their port, TypeScript rejects valid parameter-map operations, and the singular helper lacks usage documentation. They should be fixed, but do not indicate a broad failure that blocks merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 31065

Common route patterns appear to retain matching runtime and inferred parameters, but an uncommon regex-constrained pattern can produce different parameter keys. This could mislead code that relies on the new types; no authorization bypass has been established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · architecture · inferred: Regex capture groups can shift the runtime keys of subsequent bare wildcards without shifting their inferred keys, weakening the public route-parameter contract for consumers of those patterns.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The discrepancy can affect consumers registering regex-constrained routes with capture groups and later numeric wildcards. Exposure in external applications, including tenant or asset checks, is unknown.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A request path can select runtime captures whose numeric keys differ from those advertised to handler authors. Whether any application turns an absent or differently indexed value into an authorization decision is unverified; no introduced bypass is established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — For ordinary named, optional, repeat, and wildcard routes, the inspected inferred keys agree with runtime capture behavior. The request helpers handle absent params separately; these checks narrow, but do not eliminate, the regex-capture contract concern.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Keep compile-time capture keys aligned with rou3 through shared types or paired type/runtime cases for regex captures followed by wildcards, especially before relying on those keys in access-control code.

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Pull request overview

This PR adds automatic type inference for route parameters based on route patterns defined in H3 application methods. Previously, event.context.params was always typed as Record<string, string> | undefined. Now, TypeScript extracts parameter names from route patterns (e.g., :id, :userId) and provides specific types for them.

Key changes:

• Route parameters are now inferred from route patterns in app.get(), app.post(), and other HTTP method handlers
• Helper functions getRouterParams and getRouterParam now return properly typed parameters
• Routes without parameters have params typed as undefined instead of an optional record

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File	Description
test/unit/types.test-d.ts	Adds comprehensive type-level tests for router parameter inference across different route patterns and helper functions
src/utils/request.ts	Updates getRouterParams and getRouterParam with function overloads to support typed parameter inference
src/types/h3.ts	Adds H3HandlerInterface and updates HTTP method signatures to infer route parameters from route patterns
src/types/context.ts	Makes H3EventContext generic to accept custom parameter types instead of fixed Record<string, string>
src/types/_utils.ts	Introduces RouteParams type helper using InferRouteParams from rou3 for route pattern parsing
src/h3.ts	Implements runtime overloads for the on method to support typed route parameter handlers
src/event.ts	Updates H3Event.context to use the inferred router params type from the request

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[luxass]

I have updated the PR, to leverage the RouteRegistrar type, and just ensuring that the changes works with newest main.

While i was working on this, i saw some issues with the InferRouteParams which was added in h3js/rou3#168.

It has been fixed on the rou3's main, but there has not been a release, which includes the fixes. So for now i have just inline the InferRouteParams inside this PR. So when rou3 cuts a new release, we can change it back to just importing the InferRouteParams from rou3.

I hope that is fine.

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🟡 Minor · Restore the singular helper documentation with a parameter-bearing route. · 1.request.md:279-280

docs/2.utils/1.request.md:279-280
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the singular helper documentation with a parameter-bearing route.

getRouterParam reads the named entry from the matched route parameters. A / route has no key entry, so getRouterParam(event, "key") returns undefined. Restore the removed description and use /:key. Preserve the documented one-level, separator-preserving decoding behavior.

Suggested fix

-### `getRouterParam(event, name, opts: { decode? })`
+### `getRouterParam(event, name, opts?: { decode? })`
 
+Get a matched route param by name.
+
+If `decode` is `true`, it decodes the matched route param once, like
+`decodeURIComponent`, while keeping encoded path separators (`%2f`, `%5c`)
+encoded.
+
+**Example:**
+
+```ts
+app.get("/:key", (event) => {
+  const param = getRouterParam(event, "key");
+});
+```
+
 ### `getRouterParams(event, opts: { decode? })`

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In @docs/2.utils/1.request.md around lines 279 - 280, Restore the
`getRouterParam` documentation section immediately before `getRouterParams`:
describe reading a named matched route parameter, document its optional decode
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🟡 Minor · Preserve valid canonicalized forwarded hostnames. · request.ts:612

src/utils/request.ts:612
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Preserve valid canonicalized forwarded hostnames.

A valid IPv6 hostname such as [2001:0db8::1] can canonicalize to the current [2001:db8::1]. The current guard returns before applying a valid forwarded port.

The proposed sentinel check also rejects the valid hostname invalid.invalid and accepts truncated inputs such as example.com/path. Parse the hostname independently and reject host delimiters before applying its canonical value.

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-  const prevHostname = url.hostname;
-  url.hostname = hostname;
-  if (url.hostname === prevHostname && hostname.toLowerCase() !== prevHostname) {
-    return; // the setter was a no-op: keep the real authority
+  if (/[/\\?#@\s]/.test(hostname)) {
+    return; // not a hostname: keep the real authority
   }
+  let probe: URL;
+  try {
+    probe = new URL(`http://${hostname}/`);
+  } catch {
+    return; // invalid hostname: keep the real authority
+  }
+  if (!probe.hostname) {
+    return; // invalid hostname: keep the real authority
+  }
+  url.hostname = probe.hostname;

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reject host delimiters before applying its canonicalized value. Do not treat an
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Inline comments:
In @src/utils/request.ts:
- Around line 225-232: Update the `getRouterParams` overload so its return type
is non-nullable when `Request["routerParams"]` is absent or includes
`undefined`, matching the implementation’s empty-object fallback. Preserve the
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In @docs/2.utils/1.request.md:
- Around line 279-280: Restore the `getRouterParam` documentation section
immediately before `getRouterParams`: describe reading a named matched route
parameter, document its optional decode option and one-level decoding that
preserves encoded path separators, and use a `/:key` example. Note that
requesting `key` from a route without that parameter returns `undefined`.

In @src/utils/request.ts:
- Line 612: Update the forwarded-hostname handling around the `url.hostname`
assignment to validate the hostname independently and reject host delimiters
before applying its canonicalized value. Do not treat an unchanged hostname as
evidence that parsing failed; preserve valid canonicalized hostnames so the
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Keep getRouterParams non-undefined when params are absent.

Static routes and unmatched all-optional routes infer routerParams as undefined or a union containing undefined. The implementation returns {} in both cases. This prevents valid parameter-map operations from compiling.

Suggested fix

 export function getRouterParams<Request extends EventHandlerRequest>(
   event: H3Event<Request>,
   opts?: { decode?: boolean },
-): Request["routerParams"];
+): Request["routerParams"] extends undefined
+  ? NonNullable<H3Event["context"]["params"]>
+  : NonNullable<Request["routerParams"]>;

Update the corresponding type assertions to expect Record<string, string> from getRouterParams.

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	export function getRouterParams<Request extends EventHandlerRequest>(
	event: H3Event<Request>,
	opts?: { decode?: boolean },
	): Request["routerParams"];
	export function getRouterParams(
	event: HTTPEvent,
	opts?: { decode?: boolean },
	): NonNullable<H3Event["context"]["params"]>;
	export function getRouterParams<Request extends EventHandlerRequest>(
	event: H3Event<Request>,
	opts?: { decode?: boolean },
	): Request["routerParams"] extends undefined
	? NonNullable<H3Event["context"]["params"]>
	: NonNullable<Request["routerParams"]>;
	export function getRouterParams(
	event: HTTPEvent,
	opts?: { decode?: boolean },
	): NonNullable<H3Event["context"]["params"]>;

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overload so its return type is non-nullable when `Request["routerParams"]` is
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