aptt abbe38fbaf fix(plugin-seo): allow number ids & resolved relations for image auto-generation (#13906)
### What?

- The SEO plugin's `generateImage` type now also allows returning
`number` in addition to `string` and objects with an `id` property of
the same.

### Why?

`generateImage` can't be used as specified in [the
docs](https://payloadcms.com/docs/plugins/seo#generateimage) if it's
fully typed using Payload-generated collection types. Typechecking only
works because of the fallback `any` type.

This function seems to assume that the setup works with string-based
IDs. This is not necessarily the case for SQL-like databases like
Postgres.

If I fully type the `args` and consequently the return type using the
types Payload generates for me in my setup (which has `number` ids),
then the type signature of my `generateImage` doesn't conform to what
the plugin expects and typechecking fails.

Additionally, Payload's generated types for relation fields are an
ID-object union because it can't know how relations are resolved in
every context. I believe this to be the correct choice.

But it means that `generateImage` might possibly return a media object
(based on the types alone) which would break the functionality. It's
therefore safest to allow this and handle it in the UI, like [it is
already being done in the upload field's `onChange`
handler](39143c9d12/packages/plugin-seo/src/fields/MetaImage/MetaImageComponent.tsx (L183)).

### How?

By
- [widening `GenerateImage`'s return type to allow for a more diverse
set of
configurations](a0ea58d81d (diff-bad1e1b58992c48178ea7d0dfa546f66bfa6e10eed2dd3db5c74e092824fa7ffL58))
- [handling objects in the UI
component](a0ea58d81d)

Fixes #13905
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