@google/genai 1.50.1: webhooks.retrieve became webhooks.get

@google/genai 1.50.1 renamed one method in a patch release. ai.webhooks.retrieve became ai.webhooks.get, and the old name was not kept: 1.50.0 declares retrieve, 1.50.1 declares get. The return type narrowed at the same time, from a WebhookRetrieveResponse wrapper to the Webhook itself.

What changed

One method on one resource, renamed to match how the rest of the client reads a single item. Arguments are unchanged. What comes back is one hop shorter: the webhook rather than a response wrapping it.

It earns a page because it is a break in a patch release. A range of ^1.50.0 picks it up on the next install, with no deliberate upgrade.

Before and after

The old name on a client held in a variable:

import { GoogleGenAI } from '@google/genai';

const ai = new GoogleGenAI({ apiKey: process.env['GEMINI_API_KEY'] ?? '' });

export async function webhook(id: string) {
  const response = await ai.webhooks.retrieve(id);
  return response;
}

After npx emendant fix:

import { GoogleGenAI } from '@google/genai';

const ai = new GoogleGenAI({ apiKey: process.env['GEMINI_API_KEY'] ?? '' });

export async function webhook(id: string) {
  const response = await ai.webhooks.get(id);
  return response;
}

Migration guidance and its limits

Apply the patch. It is a deterministic rename, proved against your own typecheck and tests before it is offered.

The return type is the part it does not do. Code that read a field off the old wrapper now reads it off the Webhook, and your typecheck will point at it; Emendant does not edit those reads.

The call is attributed through the GoogleGenAI binding. A client passed in as an untyped parameter, or reached through a wrapper the file does not construct, is not reported. A site the tool cannot prove is one it does not name.

What Emendant detects, fixes and verifies

1 change in @google/genai 1.50.1. 1 automatic fixes, 0 fixes requiring a model provider you choose, 0 report only. Each patch states which checks passed. Understand patch evidence.

error TS2339: Property 'retrieve' does not exist on type 'Webhooks'.

emendant explain <change-id> prints any row's entry, guidance and sources at the terminal.

The error TS lines are what TypeScript 5.9.3 printed when code that compiled against @google/genai 1.50.0 was compiled against 1.50.1. A row without one is a change the compiler does not report, such as a deprecation or a change in behaviour.

Coverage

Requires emendant@0.1.0 or later. Run emendant feed update to get the latest coverage.

Primary sources

• Changeloggoogleapis/js-genai at v1.50.1
• @google/genai@1.50.1npm, the published package

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