Promote asObject/asArray into shared utils and remove duplicates from debug network utilities.

Author: DavidQ

docs/dev/CODEX_COMMANDS.md

@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ MODEL: GPT-5.4-codex
 REASONING: high
 
 COMMAND:
-Execute exactly docs/pr/BUILD_PR_SHARED_EXTRACTION_53_ASTEROIDS_NUMBER_SANITIZERS_TO_SHARED_MATH.md.
-Modify only the exact target files listed in the PR doc.
-Do not expand scope.
-Package the delta zip to:
-<project folder>/tmp/BUILD_PR_SHARED_EXTRACTION_53_ASTEROIDS_NUMBER_SANITIZERS_TO_SHARED_MATH_delta.zip
+Execute exactly docs/pr/BUILD_PR_SHARED_EXTRACTION_54_ASOBJECT_ASARRAY_TO_SHARED_UTILS.md.
+Modify only listed files.
+Package to:
+<project folder>/tmp/BUILD_PR_SHARED_EXTRACTION_54_ASOBJECT_ASARRAY_TO_SHARED_UTILS_delta.zip

docs/dev/COMMIT_COMMENT.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
-Move Asteroids-local number sanitizers into src/shared/math/numberNormalization.js and replace local definitions with shared imports.
+Promote asObject/asArray into shared utils and remove duplicates from debug network utilities.

docs/dev/NEXT_COMMAND.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
-After commit, inspect remaining number-related helpers and continue with the next exact shared-math extraction cluster only if exact files and consumer replacement are known.
+After commit, identify next duplicate cluster (likely normalizeNumber or string utils) with exact files only.

docs/dev/reports/change_summary.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-- Promote Asteroids-local finite/positive number sanitizers into canonical shared math
-- Remove local numeric helper duplication from AsteroidsWorld.js
-- Preserve exact behavior and existing gameplay usage
+- Consolidated asObject/asArray into shared utils
+- Removed duplicates from debug network utilities

docs/dev/reports/file_tree.txt

@@ -1,9 +1,3 @@
-src/shared/math/numberNormalization.js
-games/Asteroids/game/AsteroidsWorld.js
-docs/pr/BUILD_PR_SHARED_EXTRACTION_53_ASTEROIDS_NUMBER_SANITIZERS_TO_SHARED_MATH.md
-docs/dev/codex_commands.md
-docs/dev/commit_comment.txt
-docs/dev/next_command.txt
-docs/dev/reports/file_tree.txt
-docs/dev/reports/change_summary.txt
-docs/dev/reports/validation_checklist.txt
+src/shared/utils/objectUtils.js
+src/shared/utils/networkDebugUtils.js
+src/engine/debug/network/shared/networkDebugUtils.js

docs/dev/reports/validation_checklist.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-# Validation Checklist
-- Confirm only the exact target files were modified
-- Confirm no wildcard or repo-wide scanning was introduced into the implementation
-- Confirm imports resolve correctly after the change
-- Confirm no dead local helper remains in the touched files for this PR purpose
-- Confirm no unrelated refactor or formatting-only churn was introduced
-- Confirm no non-number helper in AsteroidsWorld.js was changed
+- Exact files only
+- No duplicate helpers remain
+- Imports resolve
+- No behavior change

src/engine/debug/network/shared/networkDebugUtils.js

@@ -6,18 +6,13 @@ networkDebugUtils.js
 */
 
 import { asNumber } from "../../../../shared/math/numberNormalization.js";
+import { asObject, asArray } from "../../../../shared/utils/objectUtils.js";
 
 export function sanitizeText(value) {
   return typeof value === "string" ? value.trim() : "";
 }
 
-export function asObject(value) {
-  return value !== null && typeof value === "object" && !Array.isArray(value) ? value : {};
-}
-
-export function asArray(value) {
-  return Array.isArray(value) ? value : [];
-}
+export { asObject, asArray };
 
 export { asNumber };
 

src/shared/utils/networkDebugUtils.js

@@ -1,17 +1,10 @@
 import { asNumber } from "../math/numberNormalization.js";
+import { asObject, asArray } from "./objectUtils.js";
 
 function sanitizeText(value) {
   return typeof value === "string" ? value.trim() : "";
 }
 
-function asObject(value) {
-  return value !== null && typeof value === "object" && !Array.isArray(value) ? value : {};
-}
-
-function asArray(value) {
-  return Array.isArray(value) ? value : [];
-}
-
 function toSafeKey(value) {
   return sanitizeText(value);
 }

src/shared/utils/objectUtils.js

@@ -13,4 +13,12 @@ function isPlainObject(value) {
   return !!value && typeof value === 'object' && !Array.isArray(value);
 }
 
-export { isObject, isPlainObject };
+function asObject(value) {
+  return isObject(value) ? value : {};
+}
+
+function asArray(value) {
+  return Array.isArray(value) ? value : [];
+}
+
+export { isObject, isPlainObject, asObject, asArray };