From 14d3198b8589f408c104bcc9804b2f6fab7c0a4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Copilot <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2025 09:21:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Emit contentType field as content_type in page events
 (#58325)

Co-authored-by: copilot-swe-agent[bot] <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: felicitymay <1877141+felicitymay@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 src/events/components/events.ts              |  1 +
 src/events/lib/schema.ts                     |  6 +++++
 src/events/tests/middleware.ts               | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++
 src/events/types.ts                          |  1 +
 src/frame/components/DefaultLayout.tsx       |  1 +
 src/frame/components/context/MainContext.tsx |  2 ++
 src/types.ts                                 |  3 +++
 7 files changed, 39 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/events/components/events.ts b/src/events/components/events.ts
index 6a57c39ca8..b0a59990ba 100644
--- a/src/events/components/events.ts
+++ b/src/events/components/events.ts
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ export function sendEvent<T extends EventType>({
       path_article: getMetaContent('path-article'),
       page_document_type: getMetaContent('page-document-type'),
       page_type: getMetaContent('page-type'),
+      content_type: getMetaContent('page-content-type'),
       status: Number(getMetaContent('status') || 0),
       is_logged_in: isLoggedIn(),
 
diff --git a/src/events/lib/schema.ts b/src/events/lib/schema.ts
index 92e72c7511..3f1bb45ccd 100644
--- a/src/events/lib/schema.ts
+++ b/src/events/lib/schema.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { languageKeys } from '@/languages/lib/languages-server'
 import { allVersionKeys } from '@/versions/lib/all-versions'
 import { productIds } from '@/products/lib/all-products'
 import { allTools } from '@/tools/lib/all-tools'
+import { contentTypesEnum } from '@/frame/lib/frontmatter'
 
 const versionPattern = '^\\d+(\\.\\d+)?(\\.\\d+)?$'
 
@@ -100,6 +101,11 @@ const context = {
       description: 'Optional page type from the content frontmatter.',
       enum: ['overview', 'quick_start', 'tutorial', 'how_to', 'reference', 'rai'], // frontmatter.ts
     },
+    content_type: {
+      type: 'string',
+      description: 'Optional content type from the content frontmatter (EDI content models).',
+      enum: contentTypesEnum,
+    },
     status: {
       type: 'number',
       description: 'The HTTP response status code of the main page HTML.',
diff --git a/src/events/tests/middleware.ts b/src/events/tests/middleware.ts
index a485892aa6..a450878436 100644
--- a/src/events/tests/middleware.ts
+++ b/src/events/tests/middleware.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, test, vi } from 'vitest'
 
 import { post } from '@/tests/helpers/e2etest'
+import { contentTypesEnum } from '@/frame/lib/frontmatter'
 
 describe('POST /events', () => {
   vi.setConfig({ testTimeout: 60 * 1000 })
@@ -163,4 +164,28 @@ describe('POST /events', () => {
     })
     expect(statusCode).toBe(400)
   })
+
+  test('should accept content_type field', async () => {
+    const { statusCode } = await checkEvent({
+      ...pageExample,
+      context: {
+        ...pageExample.context,
+        content_type: 'how-tos',
+      },
+    })
+    expect(statusCode).toBe(200)
+  })
+
+  test('should accept valid content_type values from EDI content models', async () => {
+    for (const contentType of contentTypesEnum) {
+      const { statusCode } = await checkEvent({
+        ...pageExample,
+        context: {
+          ...pageExample.context,
+          content_type: contentType,
+        },
+      })
+      expect(statusCode).toBe(200)
+    }
+  })
 })
diff --git a/src/events/types.ts b/src/events/types.ts
index 5ce0be05c8..36e63d0dc7 100644
--- a/src/events/types.ts
+++ b/src/events/types.ts
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ export type EventProps = {
     path_article: string
     page_document_type: string
     page_type: string
+    content_type: string
     status: number
     is_logged_in: boolean
     dotcom_user: string
diff --git a/src/frame/components/DefaultLayout.tsx b/src/frame/components/DefaultLayout.tsx
index a23a377995..b57e727d68 100644
--- a/src/frame/components/DefaultLayout.tsx
+++ b/src/frame/components/DefaultLayout.tsx
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ export const DefaultLayout = (props: Props) => {
           />
         )}
         {page.type && <meta name="page-type" content={page.type} />}
+        {page.contentType && <meta name="page-content-type" content={page.contentType} />}
         {page.documentType && <meta name="page-document-type" content={page.documentType} />}
         {status && <meta name="status" content={status.toString()} />}
 
diff --git a/src/frame/components/context/MainContext.tsx b/src/frame/components/context/MainContext.tsx
index f90691cd4d..10fcb7a42b 100644
--- a/src/frame/components/context/MainContext.tsx
+++ b/src/frame/components/context/MainContext.tsx
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ export type MainContextT = {
   page: {
     documentType: string
     type?: string
+    contentType?: string
     topics: Array<string>
     title: string
     fullTitle?: string
@@ -217,6 +218,7 @@ export const getMainContext = async (req: any, res: any): Promise<MainContextT>
     (page && {
       documentType,
       type: req.context.page.type || null,
+      contentType: req.context.page.contentType || null,
       title: req.context.page.title,
       fullTitle: req.context.page.fullTitle || null,
       topics: req.context.page.topics || [],
diff --git a/src/types.ts b/src/types.ts
index 3c39cac805..b398963269 100644
--- a/src/types.ts
+++ b/src/types.ts
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ export type PageFrontmatter = {
   featuredLinks?: FeaturedLinks
   changelog?: ChangeLog
   type?: string
+  contentType?: string
   topics?: string[]
   includeGuides?: string[]
   learningTracks?: string[]
@@ -380,6 +381,8 @@ export type Page = {
   complexity?: string[]
   industry?: string[]
   sidebarLink?: SidebarLink
+  type?: string
+  contentType?: string
 }
 
 export type SidebarLink = {