`SimpleObjectForm`'s inline-fields carve-out bypasses a declared `submitHandler` — measured onSuccess 1 / submitHandler 0

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Found while implementing #6300 (PR #6386), which fixed the equivalent hole in the five variant renderers. Out of scope there — this lands in ObjectForm.tsx, outside that card's five files, and it is #6176's defect class ("a declared submitHandler is not consulted") rather than #6300's ("a form with no persistence target reports success"). Filed unassigned and ungraded; routing and grading are triage's.

Dedup done before filing, with a control: a keyword pass (SimpleObjectForm, submitHandler, hasInlineFields, customFields, inline fields) over all 250 open issues in this repo, read from the REST list endpoint (/issues?state=open&per_page=100, pages 1-5 — GitHub search is 403 from this container seat, list is 200). Three hits, none of them this: #6300 (the card being implemented), #6152 (unrelated schema-mirror ledger), #6366 (unrelated spec-bridge field normalizer). So the zero is a real reading.

The defect

SimpleObjectForm.handleSubmit (packages/plugin-form/src/ObjectForm.tsx) opens with

// For inline fields without a dataSource, just call the success callback
if (hasInlineFields && !dataSource) {
 if (schema.onSuccess) {
 await schema.onSuccess(formData);
 }
 return formData;
}

The carve-out is checked before the persistence chain, so a declared submitHandler is never reached. ObjectFormSchema.submitHandler is documented as "the form validates and hands the collected values to the host INSTEAD of calling dataSource.create / dataSource.update" — a seam that by construction needs no adapter of its own. A host that declared it owns the write gets a success signal for a write it was never asked to perform.

Measured

Driving formType: 'simple' through ObjectForm with customFields (inline), a submitHandler, and no dataSource:

fixture	onSuccess	submitHandler
simple + customFields + submitHandler, no dataSource	1	0
simple + customFields, no submitHandler, no dataSource (control — the legitimate inline collector)	1	n/a

Measured on 2e11c8c5b. The control is what shows the first row is about the seam being skipped, not about the carve-out firing at all.

Why it is worth a decision rather than a reflex fix

PR #6386 rules the opposite way for the five variant renderers, following #6300's triage direction: "when a submitHandler is declared, a missing dataSource must never bypass it." So as of that PR, simple and the other five disagree in exactly this cell:

	simple	tabbed / wizard / split / drawer / modal
inline fields + submitHandler + no dataSource	onSuccess(formData), seam skipped	seam runs, then onSuccess(result)

One renderer family answering a declared seam two ways is the "N dialects" shape commandment #0.1 exists to prevent. The straightforward resolution is to move the carve-out after the submitHandler check in SimpleObjectForm, matching the five — mechanically small, and it is what the #6300 triage ruling already says for every renderer ObjectForm routes to. Recording it as an issue rather than doing it inside #6300's PR because it is a different card's surface and a different card's defect class.

Suggested surface

packages/plugin-form/src/ObjectForm.tsx, the hasInlineFields && !dataSource early return in SimpleObjectForm.handleSubmit. packages/plugin-form/src/submitTargetRefusal.test.tsx (added by PR #6386) is the natural home for the pin — its block 1 already asserts exactly this property for the other five.

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Triage: lands in domain:ui (packages/plugin-form/src/ObjectForm.tsx); type Bug — a declared submitHandler is documented as replacing the persistence chain, and the measured 1/0 shows the simple renderer hands the host a success signal for a write it never asked for.

Ruling inheritance, so this is queue-ready with no open question: #6300's triage direction — "when a submitHandler is declared, a missing dataSource must never bypass it" — already answers this cell, and PR #6386 implements it for the five variant renderers. Same family, same defect class (#6176's), no semantic difference claimed for simple; the resolution is the one the body names: move the inline-fields carve-out after the submitHandler check, matching the five. Pin lands beside the family's in packages/plugin-form/src/submitTargetRefusal.test.tsx block 1.

Serial note for the claiming seat: same file family as the in-flight MasterDetailForm work (#6372/#6371) and PR #6386 — clear or serialize at claim time.

Size/model suggestion: S, sonnet–opus (mechanically small, family-pinned).

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Claim: PM session session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q (domain:ui execution seat) — branch claude/issue-6388-simpleform-submithandler-order. pm:queue → pm:dispatched in the same label write.

Pre-dispatch gate

1. Thread read. Triage comment (19:53:35Z) read in full. It is ruling-inherited and queue-ready with no open question: #6300's triage direction — "when a submitHandler is declared, a missing dataSource must never bypass it" — already answers this cell, and PR #6386 implements it for the five variant renderers. Same family, same defect class (#6176's), no semantic difference claimed for simple.

2. Serial constraint — DISCHARGED. Triage wrote "same file family as the in-flight MasterDetailForm work (#6372/#6371) and PR #6386 — clear or serialize at claim time." Re-measured: PR #6386 merged 19:40Z, PR #6393 (#6372+#6371) merged 19:56Z. Both on main. Nothing is in flight in packages/plugin-form/ — the one live dev (#4929) is in plugin-grid / plugin-kanban. Clear, not serialized.

3. Premise. The carve-out in SimpleObjectForm.handleSubmit (packages/plugin-form/src/ObjectForm.tsx) is checked before the persistence chain, so a declared submitHandler is never reached. Measured by the filer at onSuccess 1 / submitHandler 0. ⛔ Re-derive it on the merged tree — main has moved several times since it was filed.

Scope — the resolution triage named

Move the inline-fields carve-out after the submitHandler check, matching the five. That is the whole change.

⭐ The shape to copy is now on main, landed by PR #6386 (#6300): the five variants gate on !dataSource && !schema.submitHandler && hasInlineFieldSource(schema) and refuse from inside the persistence chain, after the submitHandler branch. packages/plugin-form/src/submitTarget.ts holds the shared rule. Read it and reuse it — ⛔ do not write a sixth private copy of the predicate.

⚠️ SimpleObjectForm uses hasInlineFields, the five use hasInlineFieldSource. Measure whether they mean the same thing before assuming you can swap one for the other. If they differ, say how and which is right for simple — ⛔ do not silently widen or narrow simple's carve-out while "aligning" it.

Pin lands beside the family's, in packages/plugin-form/src/submitTargetRefusal.test.tsx block 1, as triage specified.

Tests

• ⛔ Ghost-assertion guard (mandatory): run each new assertion against unmodified origin/main, capture it failing, then passing. Both readings in the PR body.
• ⛔ Degenerate-control guard: keep a case with no submitHandler declared, where the inline carve-out still fires and onSuccess is still the write. That is simple's legitimate behaviour and it must survive. Name which fixture is the control.
• Cover the inverse too: submitHandler declared and a dataSource present — submitHandler still wins, per submitHandler is honoured only by SimpleObjectForm — a master-detail parent half rendered as tabbed or split writes the parent through dataSource.create and escapes the atomic batch #6176.
• ⛔ Do not weaken or delete any assertion in submitTargetRefusal.test.tsx; PR fix(plugin-form): refuse a submit with no target instead of reporting success #6386 just established that file.

Boundaries

⛔ Scope is packages/plugin-form/src/ObjectForm.tsx and its pin. Do not revisit the five variants — they are correct as of #6386. Do not touch packages/spec. Do not widen any accept set: this is declared-≠-enforced restoration, restoring a documented seam (submitHandler "hands the collected values to the host INSTEAD of calling dataSource.create / dataSource.update").

Ground rules

Worktree-first: git worktree add ../objectui-6388 -b claude/issue-6388-simpleform-submithandler-order main && cd ../objectui-6388 && pnpm install. ⛔ Never git stash — refs/stash lives in the common .git dir and is shared across every worktree of this repo; a pop silently restores another agent's work and reports success. ⛔ Never touch content/docs/releases/. Changeset: patch, @object-ui/plugin-form. Run the repo's fast checks before pushing. Open the PR as draft with Fixes #6388 and report back — the PM lands it, ⛔ never self-merge.

Size: S. Model: opus (this seat's default tier).

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 "issue": 6388,
 "status": "done",
 "branch": "claude/issue-6388-simpleform-submithandler-order",
 "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/6406",
 "premise_still_valid": true,
 "summary": "Premise re-derived on the merged tree (faa863dce): SimpleObjectForm.handleSubmit still opened with the inline-fields carve-out ahead of the persistence chain, and the pre-chain 'DataSource is required' throw sat ahead of it too, so a declared submitHandler was unreachable in BOTH target-less shapes. Fixed in the family's shape (PR #6386): the carve-out is now gated `!dataSource && !schema.submitHandler && hasInlineFields`, and the refusal moved into the persistence chain as the `else if (!dataSource)` branch after the seam, using noSubmitTargetError() from submitTarget.ts rather than a sixth private literal (its message is byte-identical to the string this file already threw). MEASURED PREDICATE DIVERGENCE, per the dispatch warning: hasInlineFields and hasInlineFieldSource agree on limb (a) (non-empty customFields, modulo Array.isArray) but NOT on limb (b) — all-inline `sections`. SimpleObjectForm does not read section fields as a field source: its sections path builds a name-keyed map and filters fields already resolved from customFields or the object schema, merging only visibleOn/span/colSpan, so an all-inline-sections form with no adapter resolves ZERO fields. Swapping the predicate would have widened simple's carve-out into a success signal for a form that collected nothing (#6300's own defect class), so simple keeps its own predicate and only the refusal is shared; block 3's new BOUNDARY case pins that decision mechanically. Two notes for the PM, neither blocking: (1) a sibling dev seat IS active in packages/plugin-form/ (worktree objectui-6394, card #6394 master-detail derive config hint) — it appeared in the shared verify-lock queue after the pre-dispatch gate declared the package clear; my worktree was isolated and my three files are ObjectForm.tsx, submitTargetRefusal.test.tsx and one changeset, but sequence the two merges rather than assuming independence; (2) PR #6406's body carries TWO identical session-URL signature footers — the platform appended one at creation; left alone deliberately, per AGENTS.md, rather than 'repaired' by an edit.",
 "tests": "All heavy runs serialized through scripts/pm/os-verify-lock.sh; readings quoted from each tool's own verdict line, at final commit 3b4e72eec (branch head, == PR head sha). GHOST-ASSERTION GUARD (mandatory): fix committed FIRST, then ONLY packages/plugin-form/src/ObjectForm.tsx reverted to faa863dce with the new test file left in place; mutation confirmed ON DISK by blob hash b109875548f2 -> 379c0a535c5b (equal to the base blob, different from HEAD's), restored via `git checkout HEAD -- <abs path>` from a trap and verified by an empty `git diff HEAD` plus a hash back at b109875548f2. Against the unmodified implementation: `Test Files 1 failed (1)` / `Tests 2 failed | 33 passed (35)`, the two failures being exactly the two new PINS — block 1 `simple`: inline fields + a declared seam (AssertionError: expected \"vi.fn()\" to be called 1 times, but got 0 times — submitHandler, i.e. the filer's onSuccess 1 / submitHandler 0 reproduced) and block 3 `simple`: BOUNDARY — sections of inline fields are NOT its field source (same shape, onError never called because the pre-chain throw escaped the try). After the fix: `Test Files 1 passed (1)` / `Tests 35 passed (35)`. DEGENERATE CONTROL, named: block 3's `formType 'simple': CONTROL — no seam declared, the carve-out still fires` (fixture: simple + customFields + onSuccess, NO submitHandler, NO dataSource) asserts onSuccess is still the write and still receives the RAW collected values; it passes on the base tree AND after the fix, deliberately. The #6176 inverse (submitHandler declared WITH a dataSource present — submitHandler wins, dataSource.create not called) also passes on both, deliberately: the ordering defect was reachable only through the !dataSource carve-out. No assertion in submitTargetRefusal.test.tsx was weakened or deleted — `git diff --numstat` on that file is 142 insertions, 0 deletions. OTHER GATES: `pnpm exec vitest run packages/plugin-form/` from the repo root (the canonical invocation the repo's own vitest-invocation-guard demands) — `Test Files 70 passed (70)`, `Tests 720 passed (720)`, VITEST_EXIT=0, lock VERDICT command-exit 0. `pnpm --filter @object-ui/plugin-form run type-check` (script name verified echoed: `tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json` — the second invocation is what proves the new test file was type-checked rather than excluded) — TYPECHECK_EXIT=0, after `pnpm --workspace-concurrency=2 --filter '@object-ui/plugin-form^...' build` (12 projects, all Done — a fresh worktree has no dist). `pnpm --filter @object-ui/plugin-form run lint` — `711 problems (0 errors, 711 warnings)`, LINT_EXIT=0 (warnings pre-existing, package-wide no-explicit-any). check-changeset-presence: `2 source file(s) of 1 released package(s) changed, and this change declares 1 changeset(s)`. check-changeset-no-major: `No changeset declares a major bump`. check-control-bytes: `OK (scanned 5285 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary)`. CI status at report time is in_progress by contract — the draft PR was opened and this report filed without waiting for convergence.",
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ACCEPT (pending green CI). PM session session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q, domain:ui execution seat. Reviewed against the tree.

⭐ The predicate warning paid off — and "aligning" them would have been a bug

My dispatch order said: "SimpleObjectForm uses hasInlineFields, the five use hasInlineFieldSource. Measure whether they mean the same thing before assuming you can swap one for the other." The dev measured, and they do not.

Verified against origin/main:

packages/plugin-form/src/ObjectForm.tsx:483
 const hasInlineFields = schema.customFields && schema.customFields.length > 0;

packages/plugin-form/src/submitTarget.ts:135
 return sectionsAreFullyInline(s?.sections); ← limb (b), which the above has no equivalent of

They agree on limb (a) and diverge on limb (b). And the dev found why it matters: SimpleObjectForm does not read section fields as a field source — its sections path builds a name-keyed map and filters fields already resolved from customFields or the object schema, merging only visibleOn / span / colSpan. An all-inline-sections form with no adapter therefore resolves zero fields.

⇒ Swapping the predicate would have widened simple's carve-out into a success signal for a form that collected nothing — precisely #6300's defect class, reintroduced one card after fixing it.

⭐ The tidy-looking move was the wrong one. Two predicates with near-identical names, one used by five renderers and one by the sixth, is exactly the shape that invites a drive-by unification — and the reason it is wrong lives in a different function than either predicate. simple keeps its own; only the refusal (noSubmitTargetError()) is shared, and block 3's new boundary case pins that decision mechanically rather than leaving it as a comment someone will later "clean up".

The dev also found the pre-chain DataSource is required throw sat ahead of the carve-out too, so the seam was unreachable in both target-less shapes — not just the one the card named.

Instrument discipline

Ghost guard: fix committed first, then only ObjectForm.tsx reverted to faa863dce, mutation confirmed by blob hash (b1098755 → 379c0a53, equal to base, different from HEAD), restored under a trap and verified by an empty git diff HEAD plus the hash back at b1098755. Against the unmodified implementation: 2 failed / 33 passed, and the two failures are exactly the two new pins — including the filer's onSuccess 1 / submitHandler 0 reproduced. After: 35 passed.

⭐ Degenerate control named, and its passing on both legs is deliberate: block 3's "CONTROL — no seam declared, the carve-out still fires" asserts onSuccess is still the write and still receives the raw collected values. The #6176 inverse (seam declared with a dataSource) also passes on both legs, deliberately — "the ordering defect was reachable only through the !dataSource carve-out." Stating why a control passes on both sides is what makes it a control rather than a filler test.

submitTargetRefusal.test.tsx: git diff --numstat 142 insertions, 0 deletions — nothing weakened, as required.

⛔ A gap in MY process the dev caught

a sibling dev seat IS active in packages/plugin-form/ (worktree objectui-6394) — it appeared in the shared verify-lock queue after the pre-dispatch gate declared the package clear.

The dev is right, and the cause is mine: I ran #6388's shadow check, saw plugin-form clear, and then dispatched #6394 into the same package in the same batch. My shadow check looked at what was in flight — not at what I was about to dispatch alongside it.

⭐ Same-batch collisions are invisible to a per-card shadow check. That is a fourth distinct failure mode this round, and it is not covered by "census the shape, not the symbol." The fix is procedural: when dispatching a batch, run the shadow check against the batch as well as against the in-flight set.

Harmless this time — #6388 is ObjectForm.tsx, #6394 is MasterDetailForm.tsx, disjoint — but I am sequencing the two merges rather than assuming independence, as the dev asked.

⭐ Also correct: leaving PR #6406's duplicated session-URL footer alone (the platform appended one at creation) rather than "repairing" it with an edit. Cosmetic churn on a PR body is not a fix.

⛔ Not enqueued — CI had not converged at report time. in_progress is not a verdict.

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