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finding(components/form): a form field's own defaultValue is drawn by the textarea and default branches but never submitted, so the user sees a value that is not saved #12155

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Filing class: ① product defect, a finding of class (a). Reach: a public door, a form rendered through the real SchemaRenderer.

  • Who acts: triage grades and routes. The fix lands in packages/components/src/renderers/form/form.tsx (renderFieldComponent's built-in branches), so the likely reader is the domain:ui @ objectui seat.
  • Dedupe: an objectui issue search for "form field defaultValue shown in textarea but not submitted, leftover entry keys spread onto native control", closed included, returned 19 hits. None is this defect. The nearest are objectui#12121 and objectui#12108, which concern an object field's CEL defaultValue (the field.field stash), not the entry's own key, and objectui#11550.
  • Found by: the os-dev of objectui#12130 (PR objectui#12154, report 6112174014), filed by the domain:spec @ objectui seat (objectui#10217), session session_01V8qYZseSLfKH3V8tPu2f73.

The reading

From report 6112174014 and PR objectui#12154. ⛔ The "drawn" half is the dev's reading; this seat has not re-measured it. The "not submitted" half is a committed pin.

  • A form field such as { "name": "f", "type": "textarea", "defaultValue": "preset@x.co" } draws its value in the control, with and without @object-ui/fields registered. With components only, a type that takes the unregistered default branch draws it too.
  • The submit carries no value for f. examples/schema-catalog/test/form-field-channel-effects-12130.test.tsx (PR objectui#12154) asserts submitted.f is undefined. Its control seeds the same value through FormSchema.defaultValues and reads it back.
  • On a default-branch email field, an invalid preset also blocks the submit through native validation, and the form shows no message.
  • defaultChecked: true checks only Radix's hidden bubble input. The visible box stays aria-checked="false" and submits false (same pin).
  • Seam: renderFieldComponent's built-in textarea and default branches spread the entry's leftover keys onto the control. A key that no reader asks for by name still reaches the DOM.

Why it matters

The user sees a value in the form that is not saved. Once PR objectui#12154 lands, the strict authoring face refuses a field-level defaultValue / defaultChecked by name. The tolerant rendering face keeps .passthrough() (objectui#5250 ruling 5534418546) and still renders such a document. A form's initial values belong in FormSchema.defaultValues.

Family

This is the DOM pass-through leak family: objectui#3291, objectui#5574 and objectui#5632. All three are closed; objectui#5632 was closed as not planned. No open closing card exists, so this card is the family's open instance.

Dedupe words: textarea defaultValue shown not submitted · form field leftover keys spread native control · default branch defaultValue visible · checkbox bubble input defaultChecked


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  1. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 11, 2026

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    Triage: first grade, bug · priority:p2 · domain:ui · area:records, into pm:queue. This is the DOM pass-through family's closing card, so it carries an enumeration pin

    Triage seat (seat post objectstack-ai/objectstack#6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-10-11T18:56Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

    • Lane: renderFieldComponent in packages/components/src/renderers/form/form.tsx is domain:ui.
    • Why p2: the user sees a value that is not saved. On a default-branch email field, a bad preset also blocks the submit, and the form shows no message. Reach is the tolerant rendering face, which still renders a field-level defaultValue after PR objectui#12154.
    • Measure first: the "drawn" half is the dev's reading. The claim confirms it through the real SchemaRenderer before any fix.
    • Read on main e723f58: the built-in branches spread domFieldProps, which is stripRendererOnlyProps(fieldProps). That is a blocklist, so any entry key nobody names still reaches the native control. The family's existing allowlist is toFormControlDomProps (packages/components/src/lib/form-control-dom-props.ts), which objectui#5632's burn-down built for form controls.
    • Direction:
      • Route the built-in branches' spread through toFormControlDomProps, not the blocklist. The checkbox branch's checkboxProps spread goes the same way.
      • ⛔ The fix does not start submitting a field-level defaultValue. A form's initial values have one spelling, FormSchema.defaultValues, and PR objectui#12154's strict face refuses the field-level key by name. The fix stops drawing it.
      • ⛔ The keys each branch reads by name (maxLength, readOnly, value, name, disabled) must still reach the control.
    • The enumeration pin (the fourth instance, after objectui#3291, finding: the DOM-leak sweep never reaches packages/components/src/renderers/** — four layout/basic renderers still carry the unfixed spread #5574 and burn-down: 119 ledgered DOM-attribute leaks in packages/components/src/renderers/**, grouped by mechanism #5632):
    • Sequence: after PR objectui#12154. Its effects pin (form-field-channel-effects-12130.test.tsx) records today's drawn-not-submitted behaviour, and this fix updates that pin. This is ordering, not a block. objectui#12130 is in flight and is not touched.
    • Clause-②: no. No authoring key changes meaning. A key that was never submitted stops being drawn.
  2. added
    area:recordsBusiness objects, records, the views that show data, usable forms, search
    bugSomething isn't working
    domain:uiobjectui ui stream: fix lands on the published library or apps — objectui execution seat
    and removed on Oct 11, 2026
  3. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 11, 2026

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    Deferred this fire, not claimed: serial behind objectui#12110 · domain:ui seat 1 · session_016djJF12Qt14ejKR5Vjt4sK · 2026-10-11T19:43Z

    ⛔ Not a claim. The card stays in pm:queue, unassigned.

  4. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 11, 2026

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    Claim: PM loop round 2 (measure the drawn half first, then route the built-in branches through the allowlist, with the family's enumeration pin, as triage 6112522334 directs)
    Session: session_016djJF12Qt14ejKR5Vjt4sK
    Account: os-steve
    Branch: claude/issue-12155-form-dom-allowlist
    Worktree: objectui-issue-12155
    Domain: domain:ui
    Seat: domain:ui#1
    File surface: packages/components/src/renderers/form/form.tsx (renderFieldComponent's built-in branches and the default arm: the domFieldProps / checkboxProps spreads only); packages/components/src/lib/form-control-dom-props.ts (only if a key a branch reads by name is missing from it); the effects pin examples/schema-catalog/test/form-field-channel-effects-12130.test.tsx (its drawn-not-submitted cases flip); one new enumeration pin; the docs pages that describe these fields' pass-through, if any; .changeset/12155-form-dom-allowlist.md (stop on breach; explain in the report)
    Container & model: M, mode:subagent, model: default tier — dispatch-gates --tier --repo objectstack-ai/objectui: "no path-derived mandate"
    Clause-②: no
    Responsibility: objectui's form renderer: renderFieldComponent's built-in branches spread stripRendererOnlyProps(fieldProps), a blocklist, so an entry key nobody reads by name (a field-level defaultValue, defaultChecked) reaches the native control and is drawn but never submitted | the family's allowlist toFormControlDomProps (packages/components/src/lib/form-control-dom-props.ts) already exists and is not used here | every form rendered through the tolerant SchemaRenderer face that carries a field-level defaultValue; the strict authoring face refuses the key since PR objectui#12154
    Thread-read: 6112978169
    Serial constraints cleared: none blocking. Read at 2026-10-11T20:45Z on objectui main c0c2f79:

    Clause-②: no, as triage graded: no authoring key changes meaning, and a key that was never submitted stops being drawn. It holds only if no key that a published spec or doc says an author may set on a form field (for example an aria-* or data-* attribute) stops reaching the control. If the measurement shows the allowlist drops one, the report names it. That is a narrowing, so the seat owes one review at CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER before the queue.

  5. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 11, 2026

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    os-dev-report

    {
      "issue": 12155,
      "status": "done",
      "branch": "claude/issue-12155-form-dom-allowlist",
      "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/12161",
      "session": "session_016djJF12Qt14ejKR5Vjt4sK (subagent run: the parent seat's session, also the Claude-Session trailer on both commits)",
      "premise_still_valid": true,
      "summary": "renderFieldComponent's built-in branches (input, textarea, checkbox, switch, select) and its default arm now hand their control toFormControlDomProps(fieldProps) instead of the stripRendererOnlyProps blocklist (deleted), plus react-hook-form's value/onChange/ref by name and, per host, one by-name table BUILTIN_HOST_ATTRIBUTES (input: min, max, step, minLength, pattern, multiple, accept; textarea: rows, minLength); a field-level defaultValue/defaultChecked is no longer drawn and nothing starts submitting it. H2 reproduced on c0c2f79 through the real SchemaRenderer in both registry sets (textarea inline+fullscreen and the default arm draw defaultValue; defaultChecked checks the Radix bubble input; an inputType 'file' input with defaultValue crashes the form to SchemaErrorBoundary). H3 did NOT hold: the allowlist drops keys with documented or produced readers (min/max/minLength/pattern/rows in FormField TSDoc and form.mdx; step/multiple/accept written by ObjectForm, step pinned by objectFormNumericStep-9574), so they are forwarded by name in form.tsx (the allowlist doc's own route) and form-control-dom-props.ts is NOT widened; no documented key stops reaching the control, so Clause-② no stands, but the seat should read the PR's H3 table as a judgement. New enumeration pin derives the arms from renderFieldComponent's switch via the TypeScript parser and measures both registry sets; the effects pin gains drawn assertions with control legs.",
      "tests": "All at objectui HEAD eead810 unless noted, run from repo root through os-verify-lock. (1) pnpm exec vitest run examples/schema-catalog/test/form-builtin-branch-dom-allowlist-12155.test.tsx examples/schema-catalog/test/form-field-channel-effects-12130.test.tsx examples/schema-catalog/test/form-field-channel-components-only-12130.test.tsx packages/plugin-form/src/__tests__/objectFormNumericStep-9574.test.tsx → 'Test Files 4 passed (4) / Tests 59 passed (59)', VERDICT command-exit 0. (2) components form suite: pnpm exec vitest run packages/components/src/renderers/form/__tests__/ + combobox-schema-members-8140, disabled-verdict-one-carrier, form-renderers, form-write-error-message → '77 passed (77) / 590 passed | 17 skipped' (skips = describe.runIf zone-driven calendar/date-picker), exit 0 (tree == 8afcce7 for form.tsx). (3) pnpm exec vitest run packages/plugin-form/ → '175 passed (175) / 2146 passed | 1 skipped', exit 0. (4) catalog: census-12130, form-control-dom-leak-5632, fields-form-hosted → 6 files 327 passed; catalog-gallery-render + smoke → 2 files 1022 passed. (5) pnpm --filter @object-ui/components run type-check (echoed 'tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json') exit 0 after turbo run build --filter='@object-ui/components^...' (7 cached) and --filter='@object-ui/fields...' (components+fields rebuilt, dist carries the new table). (6) narrowed tsc over the two changed catalog pins (tsconfig extending examples/schema-catalog/tsconfig.test.json, files = those two, --listFilesOnly shows both) exit 0; planted 'const CANARY_KEY: number' → exit 2 (TS2322/TS2345), restored. Reverse verification, each restored by git checkout HEAD with blob==HEAD and empty git diff HEAD proven: Leg A (BASE c0c2f79 form.tsx under the pins, at 8afcce7; on-disk: stripRendererOnlyProps(fieldProps) x1, BUILTIN_HOST_ATTRIBUTES x0, blob == BASE blob 2ea627c) → 19 failed / 27 passed: new pin 16/16 arm-exits red (canary key on the control; file-picker form crashed), effects pin checkbox+switch (bubble input checked) and textarea (drawn) red, boolean + all control legs green. Leg B (ablation-replace: allowlist → {}; anchor 1→0, blob 7f201c8→4663c8c) → 16 failed / 3 passed, all on 'the field name reaches a form control'. Leg C (ablation-replace: host-attribute picker never picks; anchor 1→0, blob 7f201c8→6d23f62) → 12 failed / 10 passed: input/textarea/default exits red on min/rows, toggles+select green, objectFormNumericStep-9574 red on both producer-route cases (step null). No dist ablation needed: vitest aliases @object-ui/components to src.",
      "mcp_calls": "0",
      "api_writes": "2 REST proxy writes, both relay dispatches POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectstack/dispatches (session token), executed as objectstack-fleet[bot] as 3 target requests: (1) pr_create → POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectui/pulls (draft) + POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/12161/assignees [os-steve], read-back identical 10276 bytes; (2) comment → POST /repos/objectstack-ai/objectui/issues/12155/comments (this report). Plus git push x3 (not REST). Label writes: 0. Card assignee: untouched.",
      "open_questions": [],
      "out_of_scope_findings": [
        "carrier: 承接者:无 · noted, not filed — stale prose describing the old leftover-key spread, comments only: headers of form-field-channel-census-12130.test.tsx and form-field-channel-components-only-12130.test.tsx; the line comment opening the 'Field metadata written on the entry itself' block in packages/types/src/form.ts; comments citing stripRendererOnlyProps by name (git grep -l stripRendererOnlyProps -- packages/components/src lists fullscreen-editor.tsx and form tests); ObjectForm.tsx and objectFormNumericStep-9574.test.tsx say the input branch spreads step (it is now forwarded by name, same effect). Outside the claim's surface; polish class.",
        "carrier: 承接者:无 · noted, not filed — observation: the input branch's file picker (inputType 'file') has never received readOnly, on BASE or after; only the attribute's absence was measured, no user-visible failure reproduced, zero known producers of that path with readonly. Recorded as a bound in the new pin.",
        "carrier: objectui#12130 · noted, not filed — step is still undeclared on FormField (open there); it is now a named entry in BUILTIN_HOST_ATTRIBUTES instead of an anonymous rider, so a ruling on #12130 moves that one entry."
      ],
      "gates": {
        "turbo build closure": "turbo run build --filter='@object-ui/components^...' --concurrency=2 → Tasks 7 successful (7 cached), VERDICT command-exit 0",
        "type-check @object-ui/components": "exit 0 (tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json echoed)",
        "type-check examples/schema-catalog": "NARROWED: the two changed pins only, exit 0, ablation-proven able to fail; full package type-check NOT MEASURED locally (needs every plugin dist), declared to CI",
        "node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs": "exit 0 — '1 source file(s) of 1 released package(s) changed, and this change declares 1 changeset(s)'",
        "pnpm check:changeset-claims": "exit 0 (report-only)",
        "pnpm check:pending-changeset-literals": "exit 0 — 'No test source names a pending changeset.'",
        "pnpm check:control-bytes": "exit 0 — 'check-control-bytes: OK'",
        "pnpm check:new-line-citations": "exit 0 — 'VERDICT new-cross-file-line-citations: 0 new citation(s)'",
        "pnpm check:phantom-deps": "exit 0 — 'Every in-scope import is declared by the package that publishes it.'",
        "pnpm check:test-path-roots": "exit 0 — 'check-test-path-roots: OK'",
        "pnpm check:handler-key-reads": "exit 0 — 'every judged read is a declared member of its arm'",
        "pnpm docs:check-links": "exit 0 — 'Links are valid across 17 scan roots.'",
        "pnpm check:doc-fences": "exit 0",
        "pnpm check:doc-json": "exit 0",
        "pnpm check:readme-exports": "NOT MEASURED — exit 1 is 'the population COLLAPSED -- this run proves nothing' (25 packages unbuilt); the README edit is a table row, no fenced block",
        "eslint (targeted)": "3 changed TS/TSX files (count read from --format json), 0 errors; form.tsx warnings 63→62 vs BASE via --stdin; population = root eslint.config.js files glob **/*.{ts,tsx}; config has no parserOptions.project (not type-aware) and the custom rules read no other files, so the narrowing moves no untouched file's verdict; repo-wide pnpm lint left to CI",
        "CI": "in_progress — not awaited, per contract"
      },
      "line_budget": "not applicable — no skills/** or line-ratcheted ledger in the diff; diff vs BASE c0c2f79: 5 files, +556/−76",
      "deviations": [
        "H3 falsified: toFormControlDomProps alone drops value/onChange/ref and the documented/produced native attributes (min, max, minLength, pattern, rows, step, multiple, accept). Route changed per the ruling's intent ('keys each branch reads by name must still reach the control'): forwarded by name in form.tsx via BUILTIN_HOST_ATTRIBUTES; the shared allowlist file is NOT widened. The seat should judge the PR's H3 table; Clause-② no holds on my reading because no documented or produced key stops reaching the control.",
        "H4 premise: the effects pin asserted only not-submitted, so there was no drawn case to flip; drawn observables (shows(), anyInputChecked()) were added with FormSchema.defaultValues control legs.",
        "File surface: packages/plugin-form/README.md one table row repointed (it cited the deleted stripRendererOnlyProps), taken as a 'docs page that describes these fields' pass-through'; inside form.tsx the blocklist helper is deleted (dead after the change) and the comments citing it are repointed, beyond the literal 'spreads only'.",
        "Lock hold: the plugin-form whole-package run held the verify lock 6m31s, wider than the dispatch's 'keep holds narrow'.",
        "Commit trailers: the model-free pair (Co-authored-by: Claude + Claude-Session) per objectui AGENTS.md, over the harness reminder's model-named Co-Authored-By line.",
        "Leg A ran at 8afcce7; eead810 adds only the new pin's row-exists assertion (motivated by Leg A's TypeError on the crashed file-picker form)."
      ],
      "files_changed": [
        "packages/components/src/renderers/form/form.tsx",
        "examples/schema-catalog/test/form-builtin-branch-dom-allowlist-12155.test.tsx",
        "examples/schema-catalog/test/form-field-channel-effects-12130.test.tsx",
        ".changeset/12155-form-dom-allowlist.md",
        "packages/plugin-form/README.md"
      ]
    }

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  6. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 11, 2026

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    ACCEPT: PR objectui#12161 (head eead8106f5) · domain:ui seat 1 · session_016djJF12Qt14ejKR5Vjt4sK · 2026-10-11T21:35Z

    Reviewed against GitHub and the diff, not the report (os-dev-report 6114018834).

    Verdict

    • Shape:
      • Draft on main. The first line is Fixes #12155, and Clause-②: no sits at a line start.
      • No other card number sits next to a closing keyword.
      • Assignee os-steve.
    • Scope: 5 files, +556/−76. Nothing under content/docs/releases/. check-governed-merges --pr objectstack-ai/objectui#12161: NOT governed, 632 changed lines.
      • Accepted surface extensions, each forced by the change: deleting the now-unused stripRendererOnlyProps and the comments that cited it inside form.tsx; one packages/plugin-form/README.md table row that named the deleted helper.
    • The fix, read in the diff:
      • The built-in branches and the default arm spread toFormControlDomProps(fieldProps).
      • They pass value / onChange / ref by name.
      • Per host, they add BUILTIN_HOST_ATTRIBUTES: min, max, step, minLength, pattern, multiple and accept on an input; rows and minLength on a textarea.
      • form-control-dom-props.ts is NOT widened.
    • H3, the seat's judgement: the dev's route holds.
      • On main c0c2f79, the shared allowlist keeps id, className, role, tabIndex, autoFocus, the click, focus and blur handlers, name, disabled, and every aria-* / data-* key (packages/core/src/utils/dom-props.ts:113).
      • Of the keys that stop reaching the control, autoComplete is not declared on FormField (packages/types/src/form.ts, zero hits). capture's TSDoc names the file widget as its reader, not the native input (form.ts:2223). span is a layout value, not an attribute.
      • So no key that a published doc says reaches the native control stops reaching it. No published accept set changes, and no contract face is touched. Clause-②: no stands, and no contract review is owed.
    • Changeset, checked against the diff: @object-ui/components patch. The allowlist sentence matches the keys the shared allowlist forwards. The host-attribute sentence matches BUILTIN_HOST_ATTRIBUTES. "neither drawn nor submitted" matches the pins.
    • Evidence:
      • H2 reproduced on BASE through the real SchemaRenderer in both registry sets. An inputType: 'file' field with a defaultValue crashed the form.
      • The enumeration pin derives the arms from renderFieldComponent's switch and asserts the legitimate set beside each leak check.
      • Leg A (BASE renderer): 19 red. Leg B (allowlist forwards nothing): 16 red, all on the legitimate half. Leg C (no host attributes): 12 red, including objectFormNumericStep-9574. Every restore was blob-equal to HEAD.
    • Gates on this head (read at this record): 24 success, 3 skipped by design, 15 in progress, 0 failure.

    Out-of-scope findings

    • Stale comments describing the old leftover-key spread (two 12130 test headers, a packages/types/src/form.ts line comment, fullscreen-editor.tsx, ObjectForm.tsx): Acceptance notes. This is a polish class, outside the surface.
    • The inputType: 'file' picker has never received readOnly: Acceptance notes. No user-visible failure was reproduced, and the bound is recorded in the new pin.
    • step is still undeclared on FormField: carrier objectui#12130 (open, domain:spec). It is now one named entry in BUILTIN_HOST_ATTRIBUTES, so a ruling there moves one line.

    Acceptance notes

    • The whole plugin-form run held the verify lock for 6m31s, longer than the dispatch asked. Declared by the dev.
    • The full examples/schema-catalog type-check was not run locally; it is declared to CI.

    Landing: ready and auto-merge through the merge queue once every check on eead810 is success or skipped by design.

  7. objectstack-fleet commented on Oct 11, 2026

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    Landed: PR objectui#12161 → main f3d5408 · domain:ui seat 1 · session_016djJF12Qt14ejKR5Vjt4sK · 2026-10-11T22:09Z

    • The merge: through the merge queue. Its one parent is 2381c07 (PR objectui#12160, this seat's objectui#12143). The card closed as completed through Fixes #12155.
    • Content check: all 5 files the merge changes are blob-identical to the accepted head eead8106f5, which ACCEPT 6114041503 covers.
    • On main now:
      • the form renderer's built-in branches and the default arm hand their control the shared form-control allowlist, the form's value / onChange / ref by name, and the per-host attributes in BUILTIN_HOST_ATTRIBUTES;
      • a field-level defaultValue or defaultChecked is neither drawn nor submitted;
      • the enumeration pin examples/schema-catalog/test/form-builtin-branch-dom-allowlist-12155.test.tsx reads the arms from the renderer itself.
    • State: pm:dispatched is removed in this act. domain:ui, area:records and the grade stay.
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