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Fixes#4514

Mounting an I18nProvider in a test file silently changed what every later provider-less render in that file resolved. Measured three times in this repo, each time worked around by a comment telling the next author to keep providers in a separate file — which is exactly what failed to prevent the next occurrence.

What actually leaks — and it is not "the language"

createI18n() (packages/i18n/src/i18n.ts:132) builds a fresh instance and calls instance.use(initReactI18next).init(...). react-i18next's initReactI18next is a 3rdParty module whose init runs setI18n(instance), and setI18n is a plain assignment over a module-level binding:

leti18nInstance;exportconstsetI18n=instance=>{i18nInstance=instance;};

So a mounted provider does not mutate one shared instance's language — it replaces react-i18next's default-instance pointer, carrying that instance's language, resources, namespaces and dir().

Measured in one file, in order:

stepgetI18n()t('common.save')
before any providerundefinedcommon.save
mount zh providerpointer swapped: true保存
provider-less renderlanguage zh保存 ← the bug
changeLanguage('en')language enSave

That fourth row is why a language-only reset is not the fix: it leaves the test's instance installed as the global, so a provider-less render that used to return a raw key now returns an en pack value. Measured with a provider carrying custom resources, after changeLanguage('en') the provider's own probe.custom key was still reachable through the global, and this is the card's open question answered: more than language leaks.

The fix restores the pointer to whatever the file inherited (undefined in this repo), which subsumes language, resources, namespaces and direction.

Layer

vitest.setup.base.ts, not the two DOM setups. It is the one file every project's setup leads back to (unit directly; dom via vitest.setup.dom-light.tsx; dom-heavy and apps/console via vitest.setup.dom.tsx), and the unit project needs it more: it runs isolate: false, so react-i18next's module-level pointer is shared across files in a worker.

That is measured, not argued. With the reset ablated, the pin file's very first test — baseline: no global before anything in this file runs — passes when the file runs alone but fails in the full unit project, because an earlier file in the same worker (packages/i18n/src/__tests__/i18n.test.ts calls createI18n() a dozen times) had already installed a global.

I18nProvider's runtime behaviour is deliberately unchanged — the card's direction 2 is not taken here. The global fallback is what makes useObjectTranslation() provider-safe, and that is a product decision, not a harness one.

Reproduced before fixed

Injected one I18nProviderzh case into packages/fields/src/widgets/GridField.test.tsx at the hazard-comment site, ~200 lines above the chip test, on today's tree:

before the fix: Tests 1 failed | 46 passed (47)
× shows an uploaded file as a removable chip
GridField.test.tsx:553 getByLabelText('Remove receipt.png')
after the fix: Tests 47 passed (47)

Same injection, same file, opposite outcome. The injection was reverted both times (it is not in this diff).

Root package.json / pnpm-lock.yaml

Adding react-i18next@^17.0.11 as a root devDependency is required, not incidental: vitest.setup.i18n-global.ts imports it directly and the repo root declares no @object-ui/* dependency, so nothing links it into root node_modules — the first run failed with Cannot find package 'react-i18next' imported from vitest.setup.i18n-global.ts. This follows existing precedent: react, react-dom, @testing-library/react and @testing-library/jest-dom are already root devDependencies for exactly the same reason (the root setup files import them). The lockfile delta is 3 added lines — it reuses the already-resolved 17.0.11. The type import was dropped in favour of ReturnType<typeof getI18n> so this needs one new dependency rather than two.

Enforcement, not documentation

packages/i18n/src/__tests__/global-instance-reset.test.tsx (dom) and …/global-instance-reset.unit.test.ts (unit). Every case is written provider-less after a case that mounted a provider — the arrangement that used to be unsafe. Reverse-verified by ablating the installI18nGlobalReset() call: 5 failed / 7 passed (12) ablated vs 12 passed with it in place, reproduced twice.

The three hand-written workaround notes (GridField.test.tsx, date-locale-channel.test.tsx, timeline-scale-vocabulary-defaults.test.ts) each asserted a hazard that no longer exists, so each now names the mechanism and the test that enforces it instead.

Gates, each by name, at 238e2fd

gateconclusion
vitest --project unitTest Files 658 passed (658) · Tests 10053 passed | 1 skipped
vitest --project dom-heavyTest Files 30 passed (30) · Tests 310 passed (310)
vitest --project domTest Files 1154 passed (1154) · Tests 12843 passed (12843) (at 96b9d59)
vitest --project @object-ui/consoleTest Files 72 passed (72) · Tests 805 passed (805) (at 96b9d59)
pnpm type-check:vitest-setupexit 0 (after building the four packages it requires)
pnpm lint:rootexit 0 — 26 problems (0 errors, 26 warnings)
node scripts/check-lint-coverage.mjslint coverage: 46/46 packages linted, 0 with outstanding errors
node scripts/check-changeset-presence.mjs5 source file(s) … declares 1 changeset(s) — empty frontmatter, releases nothing
node scripts/check-changeset-no-major.mjsNo changeset declares a major bump
eslint on the 7 changed filesexit 0, 0 errors; 24 warnings, all pre-existing (measured 24 at base baac3f4 for the same files)

All four projects were green at 96b9d59; the only delta to 238e2fd is the pin test file itself, re-run green there (12 passed), and unit + dom-heavy were re-run in full at 238e2fd. Runs are from the repo root, the canonical invocation the config's guard requires.

Cost (the reset runs under every DOM test):

  • i18n-heavy slice (all packages/i18n.test.tsx + date-locale-channel.test.tsx, 909 tests, 3 runs each): total 17.20s with vs 17.16s ablated — inside the ±0.9s run-to-run spread. Setup phase +0.89s across the slice.
  • unit project (658 files): setup 3.46s with vs 2.07s ablated (~2ms/file); wall clock 98.09s vs 100.55s, i.e. unmeasurable. Bounded by isolate: false — the import is paid once per worker, not per file.

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Mounting an `I18nProvider` in a test file silently changed what every later
provider-less render in that file resolved. Measured three times in the repo,
each time worked around by a comment telling the next author to keep providers
in a separate file.
What leaks is not the language: `createI18n()` calls
`instance.use(initReactI18next)`, whose `init` runs react-i18next's
`setI18n(instance)` — replacing the module-level default-instance POINTER, and
with it the language, resources, namespaces and `dir()`. A `changeLanguage`
reset would leave the test's instance installed as the global.
`installI18nGlobalReset()` snapshots the pointer before each test file and puts
it back after every test. It is called from `vitest.setup.base.ts`, the one
file every project's setup leads back to — including the `unit` project, which
runs `isolate: false` and therefore leaks across files, not just tests.
`I18nProvider`'s runtime behaviour is unchanged; the global fallback that makes
`useObjectTranslation()` provider-safe stays exactly as designed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PQ3NihCHE9LUtHoGxo6A9f
… changeset
The comments in GridField.test.tsx, date-locale-channel.test.tsx and
timeline-scale-vocabulary-defaults.test.ts each told the next author that
mounting a provider changes what later provider-less renders resolve. That is
no longer true, and a comment asserting a hazard that no longer exists is worse
than none. Each now names the mechanism and the test that enforces it.
The changeset has an empty frontmatter: every source file in this change is a
test or the harness, so it releases nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PQ3NihCHE9LUtHoGxo6A9f
…e global
`react-hooks/globals` (error) rejects reassigning a variable declared outside
the component during render, and it is right to: it is a side effect in render
that would misreport the moment React rendered the probe twice. The probe now
renders its three resolved values and the assertions read them back.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PQ3NihCHE9LUtHoGxo6A9f
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Mounting an I18nProvider in a test file silently changes what every LATER provider-less render in that file resolves

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