Fix format result (#18975)
For a field that is not a relation and not a composite, there is no
legitimate reason to recurse into a plain object value.
The only cases where recursion makes sense are:
- Relations, the value is a nested entity record (handled at line 149)
- Composite fields - the value is being reassembled from flat columns
(handled at line 176+)
For everything else, a plain object value is just data
#### Perf testing
Compare findManyCompanies with a jsonField having same 20-level nested
value (cf quote)
- with fix
Average ≈ 75.77 ms - min 52.43 ms - max 114.99 ms.
- without
Average: ≈ 376.62 ms - Min: 194.19 ms - Max: 1183.65 ms (39 requests)
```
{
"document": {
"id": "doc-nested-20",
"title": "20-level nested sample",
"tags": ["sample", "nested", "json", "fixture", "demo"],
"counts": [100, 200, 300, 400, 500],
"extras": {
"a": true,
"b": false,
"c": null,
"d": 3.14159,
"e": "unicode-测试-αβγ"
}
},
"users": [
{ "id": 1, "name": "Alice", "roles": ["admin", "editor"] },
{ "id": 2, "name": "Bob", "roles": ["viewer"] },
{ "id": 3, "name": "Carol", "roles": ["editor", "viewer"] }
],
"matrix": [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]],
"settings": {
"theme": "dark",
"notifications": { "email": true, "push": false, "sms": false },
"locale": "en-US"
},
"deep": {
"level01": {
"level02": {
"level03": {
"level04": {
"level05": {
"level06": {
"level07": {
"level08": {
"level09": {
"level10": {
"level11": {
"level12": {
"level13": {
"level14": {
"level15": {
"level16": {
"level17": {
"level18": {
"level19": {
"level20": {
"leaf": true,
"summary": "deepest object in this branch",
"indices": [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9],
"meta": {
"maxDepth": 20,
"note": "Count deep.level01..level20 as 20 nested objects"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"footer": {
"checksum": "example-only-not-real",
"generated": "2025-03-25"
}
}
```