Obtain defaults even on failed validation

Is there a way to obtain the defaults objects even after validation failed: I tried:

const schema = z.object({
  name: z.string(),
  age: z.number().default(3),
});
const schema2 = z.object({
  name: z.string(),
  age: z.number().default(3),
  arr: z
    .array(
      z.object({
        number: z.string(),
        type: z.string().default("cell"),
      })
    )
    .nonempty()
    .default([{}] as any),
});

console.log(schema.deepPartial().default({}).parse(undefined));
// This is ok, returns { age: 3 }
console.log(schema2.deepPartial().default({}).parse(undefined));
// This is not ok, returns { age: 3 } but wanted { age: 3, arr: [{ type:'cell' }] }

Is there a way to actually safe parse so defaults get filled and then validate for real?

[tomocrafter]

@juni0r I gave up with defining constant default value for each object. I also want good way to achive this…

[ifightcrime]

Interesting. It looks like #352 is close to what I’m looking for, but from the first comment on this issue it sounds like some of this should work out of the box when using .partial()?

console.log(schema.deepPartial().default({}).parse(undefined)); // This is ok, returns { age: 3 }