Extend a distinct zod instance

[qw-in]

Thanks for this, cool library!

We use zod for a lot throughout the codebase, and I'd prefer to keep the openapi bits contained. Wondering how feasible something like the following would be:

// somewhere.ts

import { z } from "zod":
import { createExtendedZod } from ".";

export const oz = createExtendedZod(z);

// elsewhere.ts

import { oz } from "./somewhere"

const schema = oz.string().openapi(/* ... */);

Thanks!

[AGalabov]

@qw-in thank you for the kind word. If I understood correctly you just want to do the extending in a single file and reexport it. You do not need createExtendedZod for that. What we've done for a project where we use it is:

// utils/zod.ts
import { z } from 'zod';

extendZodWithOpenApi(z);

export { z }; // If you want to "rename it" you can just use `export { z as oz };`

And then we import it as:

import { z } from '<path-here>/utils/zod'

We've also added an eslint rule not to import from 'zod' directly.

Is this what you intended and does this solve it for you?

[qw-in]

@AGalabov ahh, thanks for the clarification!

I saw the types (.d.ts) and assumed it was globally patching zod. Perfect, I'll give it a try next week. Cheers