finding(components): data-table's column normalization also reads an undeclared `col.label` alias for `header` — the sibling alias on the same two lines as `col.name`

[os-support-ai]

Found while running #5120's census (not claiming; observation class). Baseline objectui main @ 9c60144.

The fact

packages/components/src/renderers/complex/data-table.tsx:777 (and :786, the auto-width pass) normalizes two keys per column, not one:

header: col.header || col.label,
accessorKey: col.accessorKey || col.name

#5120 rules on the second line only. The first is the same shape: TableColumn (packages/types/src/data-display.ts:218-226) declares header: string and does not declare label, so the adapter accepts a spelling its own type refuses — AGENTS.md #0.1, one key with two spellings.

Why it is filed separately rather than fixed alongside col.name

Three reasons, all of which make it a different decision from the identity alias:

1. It is a label, not an identity. col.name resolving to undefined produces blank cells over a live header; col.label resolving to nothing produces a headerless column. Different failure, different blast radius.
2. Its authorized usage is much wider. Every name-spelled column the finding(components/plugin-dashboard): data-table 的访问键归一化读一个自身类型未声明的 col.name 别名,而唯一在交付前解析列身份的生产者只有 RelatedList #5120 census found also spells label, and so do the type: 'table' examples in content/docs/api/schema-reference.md (~L402, L1131), content/docs/core/report-schema.mdx:327, the crud example at schema-reference.md:537, and both skills guides (skills/objectui/guides/data-integration.md:185, skills/objectui/guides/schema-expressions.md:377). Retiring label is a strictly larger census than retiring name.
3. label is the spec's own word. ListColumnSchema spells its display text label; header is the data-table adapter's. So unlike name, label is not legacy-objectui vocabulary leaking in — it is metadata vocabulary reaching an adapter that speaks header, i.e. the same "one translation, one place" boundary finding(plugin-grid): ObjectGrid 在 ObjectGridSchema.columns 上容忍未声明的 accessorKey / header 拼写 —— 声明类型是 strict 的 ListColumn,#3104 的列身份门禁结构上看不见这条支路 #5068 drew, seen from the label side.

Whether the answer is "translate label → header at each producer" (the #5068 shape) or "the adapter owns both" is a maintainer call.

Recheck

sed -n '772,790p' packages/components/src/renderers/complex/data-table.tsx
sed -n '218,227p' packages/types/src/data-display.ts

Grading

finding, not pm:queue. Related: #5120, #5068, #5022.

[os-zhuang]

Triage first-touch grading (finding centralized round, 2026-08-20, triage seat session session_016A4EBi3ky1mjTi6vD2kCvA): finding → pm:blocked — same single ruling as its siblings: #5120 owns the data-table alias decision, and this card's label dimension (the spec's own ListColumnSchema word crossing the adapter boundary) is evidence for that ruling, not a separate one. Re-verified on origin/main: data-table.tsx:776/:785-786 still reads both undeclared aliases.

Blocked-by: #5120

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[os-zhuang]

Triage unlock: the family ruling landed on #5120 (2026-08-20). For this card's label→header nuance: the producer maps the spec's ListColumnSchema.label into header at delivery — metadata vocabulary does not cross the adapter boundary as a tolerated alias. Returned to the queue; same-file coordination with #5120/#5350 (fold-or-serial is the dispatching seat's to answer).

Blocked-by: #5120 — discharged (ruling landed).

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[claude]

Claim: PM loop round 21
Session: session_01RV6yuVCxymHYE16PL9vQkE
Branch: claude/issue-5120-column-identity-unify
Worktree: objectui-issue-5120
Domain: repo:objectui
File surface: packages/components/src/renderers/complex/data-table.tsx (:777, :786), packages/plugin-dashboard/src/ObjectDataTable.tsx, packages/plugin-grid/src/ObjectGrid.tsx, the shared columnIdentity resolution + tests (stop on breach; explain in the report)
Container & model: L, mode:subagent
Clause-②: yes — removes the undeclared col.name / col.label consumer tolerance, narrowing the accepted set. Covered by the recorded family ruling on #5120.

Fold-or-serial answered by the dispatching seat, as triage asked:

• finding(components/plugin-dashboard): data-table 的访问键归一化读一个自身类型未声明的 col.name 别名,而唯一在交付前解析列身份的生产者只有 RelatedList #5120 + finding(components): data-table's column normalization also reads an undeclared col.label alias for header — the sibling alias on the same two lines as col.name #5351 FOLDED into this one dispatch — the ruling names data-table.tsx:777 and :786, and finding(components): data-table's column normalization also reads an undeclared col.label alias for header — the sibling alias on the same two lines as col.name #5351 is the :777 line (header: col.header || col.label). Same file, same two adjacent lines, one ruling. Splitting them guarantees a conflict.
• finding(components): the static table renderer is a fourth site of the undeclared column-alias family, and its published docs declare name/label as TableColumn while packages/types declares header/accessorKey #5350 SERIALISED, not folded — the ruling requires it to correct content/docs/api/schema-reference.md §TableSchema, and finding(plugin-grid/docs): the published docs and skills teach { name, label } columns on a directly-authored object-grid, which ObjectGrid silently drops — before and after #5068 #5352 is in flight editing that exact file right now. It goes in a later batch once finding(plugin-grid/docs): the published docs and skills teach { name, label } columns on a directly-authored object-grid, which ObjectGrid silently drops — before and after #5068 #5352 lands.

Serial constraints cleared: packages/plugin-grid free (#5349/PR5456 MERGED), packages/plugin-dashboard free (#5425/PR5445 MERGED). ⛔ Do NOT touch content/docs/api/schema-reference.md — #5352 owns it this round.

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