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Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

type can now return "basin_catalog"

What changed

Producer-side tools call this additive. It breaks exhaustive switches, strict parsers and generated client enums.

Affects result[].type on GET /accounts/{account_id}/pipelines/v1/sinks.

New value: basin_catalog.

can now return "basin_catalog"

Who is affected

Code that reads GET /accounts/{account_id}/pipelines/v1/sinks (result[].type).

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
GET /accounts/{account_id}/pipelines/v1/sinks · result[].type"r2", "r2_data_catalog""basin_catalog", "r2", "r2_data_catalog"
POST /accounts/{account_id}/pipelines/v1/sinks · result.type"r2", "r2_data_catalog""basin_catalog", "r2", "r2_data_catalog"
GET /accounts/{account_id}/pipelines/v1/sinks/{sink_id} · result.type"r2", "r2_data_catalog""basin_catalog", "r2", "r2_data_catalog"

Code that breaks

switch (response.result[0].type) {
  // existing branches …
  // no branch for "basin_catalog"
  default:
    throw new Error("unexpected type");
}

Based on Cloudflare’s published API specification. How severity is decided.