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fix(core): drop the undeclared objectDef.titleField read from getRecordDisplayName step 0 - #6560

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Fixes#6531

The census was the work, and it came back zero

The card asked which producers, if any, put titleField on an object-shaped payload handed to getRecordDisplayName. Nothing does — and the contract is stronger than "does not declare it".

The spec half, re-derived rather than assumed. The PM could not verify this from the shared checkout (no spec dist installed there). Measured in this worktree against @objectstack/spec@17.2.0 — the exact dist this repo resolves — by calling ObjectSchema.safeParse directly:

proberesult
nameField: 'name'(control)ACCEPTED, survives on the parsed output
displayNameField: 'name'(control)ACCEPTED, survives
titleFormat: '{name}'(control)ACCEPTED, normalised to {dialect:'template',source:'{name}'}
titleField: 'name' (subject)REJECTED — unrecognized_keys
totallyMadeUpKey: 'x'(negative control)REJECTED — unrecognized_keys

The subject fails with the same issue code as a nonsense key. ObjectSchemaBase is a strictObject (packages/spec/src/data/object.zod.ts:1540), shut by objectstack#4001 precisely because parse() used to drop unknown keys in silence. The declared object shape has 42 top-level keys; titleField is not one of them, and the only key matching /title/i is titleFormat.

So object-level titleField is not merely undeclared — no spec-compliant producer can ship it. The premise held, and hardened.

The producer half. Every population, each with a positive control that fired:

populationresultpositive control
packages/spec/authorable-surface/*.json (machine-generated ledger)data/Object declares nameField, displayNameField, titleFormat. All six titleField entries in the entire surface are ui/*Config view keys.data/Object:nameField fires in data.json
both repos' metadatazero object-level occurrencesnameField fires in objectstack/examples/app-todo/src/objects/task.object.ts
assignment form .titleField =, both repos0 / 0same regex: .label = fires 24× (objectui), 23× (objectstack)
object-literal titleField: in objectui non-test src43 sites, every one classified: view/component config, i18n label, or a view zod schema. Zero on an object def.the classification itself
every getObjectSchema implementation in objectui (10, incl. the real data-objectstack adapter)zero. The adapter's only schema-stamping passes are normalizeSchemaReferenceKeys and applyFieldWidgetOverrides.titleField fires in plugin-gantt/demo/main.tsx — on the gantt view schema, not the object schema that file's getObjectSchema returns
the platform's own server-side resolver@objectstack/objectql#titleFieldOf reads nameFielddisplayNameField and nothing elsethe function is namedtitleFieldOf yet takes its pointer from nameField — "titleField" is the concept, nameField is the key

The two paths the NAME_ISH_RECORD_KEYS docblock cited, which triage named as the remaining population, were traced by hand rather than grepped:

  • Search candidates (useRecordSearch) — the objectDef is either an entry from the app's objects metadata array or the stub the hook synthesizes for a hit whose object is not in that array: { name: objectName }. Neither carries the key.
  • Lookup chips (LookupField) — the objectDef is dataSource.getObjectSchema(referenceTo), passed through verbatim.

That docblock's own wording ("lightweight search candidates that carry only name/titleField") was the strongest-looking evidence for reading 2, and it is the one thing here that did not survive contact with the code. It is rewritten in this PR to say what the shape actually is.

Verdict: branch (2). The read was a consumer-side alias for a key no producer can ship — AGENTS.md Commandment #0.1 — ranked above the nameField ADR-0079 Phase 2 made canonical.

What changed

packages/core/src/utils/record-title.ts — step 0 loses its second leg:

- const explicit =- valueAt(record, options?.titleField) ?? valueAt(record, objectDef?.titleField);+ const explicit = valueAt(record, options?.titleField);

Order and existence travelled together, as the card required. The precedence was not touched independently: the undeclared key is gone, and with it the inversion. nameField is now the top of the object-level ladder, exactly as ADR-0079 states.

The declared half of step 0 is untouched.titleFieldis a real spec key — on views (ui/CalendarConfig, ui/GalleryConfig, ui/GanttConfig, ui/ListMapConfig, ui/ObjectKanbanProps, ui/TimelineConfig) — and views hand it in as options.titleField. That leg still outranks everything, so no view loses its author-chosen title field. A dedicated CONTROL test pins it in both directions of the ablation below.

The three docblocks that described the old ladder (module header, getRecordDisplayName precedence list, NAME_ISH_RECORD_KEYS) were updated with it; a stale ladder in a docblock is how the next reader re-adds the leg.

Reverse verification — pin first, mutation proven on disk

The pin was written and committed before the fix (2996cdfd6), and it failed against the unmodified resolver.

Then, from the committed fixed state, the read was put back and the tree re-measured. The mutation was proven on disk by content hash and anchored greps in both directions, never by an exit code:

HEAD blob for packages/core/src/utils/record-title.ts : c91fd4db922eb10c87064d2e7eac029a9eea4f27
pre-mutation worktree hash: c91fd4db922eb10c87064d2e7eac029a9eea4f27
post-mutation: injected-text count=1 (expect 1) · removed-text count=0 (expect 0)
post-mutation worktree hash: 4a2a2cb0dea9044b2dfca9e23e000851113330e2
MUTATION CONFIRMED ON DISK
ABLATED_VITEST_EXIT=1
× does NOT consult `objectDef.titleField` — the declared `nameField` is the top of the ladder
× does NOT consult `objectDef.titleField` even when it is the ONLY pointer the object carries
× CONTROL: an object carrying the undeclared key still resolves through every declared rung
Tests 3 failed | 72 passed (75)
post-restore worktree hash: c91fd4db922eb10c87064d2e7eac029a9eea4f27
RESTORE CONFIRMED: worktree bytes == HEAD blob, git diff HEAD empty

Expected direction was plain red, and that is what it did. The options.titleField CONTROL stayed green in both legs, which is what isolates the removal from an over-reach. The restore leg was proven the same way as the mutation leg — byte identity against the HEAD blob, plus an empty git diff HEAD — so no later measurement in this branch ran on a mutated tree. Restore used git checkout HEAD -- <path> with an absolute repo root, never a bare git checkout -- (which reads from a possibly-polluted index).

Note for anyone re-running this: @object-ui/core is aliased to packages/core/src in the root vitest.config.mts, so tests exercise resolver source; no dist build participates and a dist-based ablation here would measure nothing.

Two fixture corrections, both worth naming

A phantom pin retired.record-title.test.ts carried

it("honors objectDef.titleField when set (object-level title hint)",()=>{constobj={name: 'account',label: 'Account',titleField: 'name'};expect(getRecordDisplayName(obj,{id: 'a1',name: 'Acme Corp'})).toBe('Acme Corp');});

It never measured that. name is also a NAME_ISH_RECORD_KEYS entry, so step 4b answers identically with the step-0 read deleted — and the very next test asserts the same string from the same record without the key. A pin that passes for a reason unrelated to its own name is how an undeclared key survives a rewrite. Replaced by a fixture that states what it actually covers, with the real negative pins in a new block.

One of my own pins was wrong first, and is reported rather than quietly fixed. The "only pointer" case initially used legacy_title; it stayed red after the removal. The fixture was at fault, not the code — step 4b(ii)'s *_title affix rung answers legacy_title on its own. Renamed to headline, which is name-ish by neither 4b rung, so the pin now isolates what it claims. The comment in the test records this so the field name is not "simplified" back later.

Verification

Union re-run at final HEAD 7d896350b, all through the shared verify lock:

gateverdict line
@object-ui/core type-check> tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json → exit 0
@object-ui/core testsTest Files 103 passed (103) · Tests 2079 passed (2079)
consumer testsTest Files 3 passed (3) · Tests 33 passed (33)
@object-ui/core lint✖ 513 problems (0 errors, 513 warnings) → exit 0
check-changeset-presence✅ 2 source file(s) of 1 released package(s) changed, and this change declares 1 changeset(s)
check-changeset-fixed✅ All workspace packages are in the changeset fixed group.
check-changeset-no-major✅ No changeset declares a `major` bump.
check-changeset-overwrite✅ No pre-existing changeset was modified or deleted.
check-control-bytes✅ check-control-bytes: OK (scanned 5418 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary).

Typecheck coverage is measured, not assumed.--listFiles confirms both edited files are in the compiled program (1 hit each), so "typecheck clean" is a statement about this diff and not about a set that excludes it.

Consumer selection is derived, not guessed. The only shape this change can move is an objectDef carrying titleField. Every test file in the repo was scanned for a fixture pairing titleField with an object-def pointer (nameField / displayNameField / titleFormat); that returned exactly four files, and the three outside packages/core are the three run above. All pass.

Lint narrowing, declared. Repo-wide pnpm lint is turbo run lint — each package's own eslint . — and CI runs it in full regardless. Narrowed here to the affected package's own CI command, run complete:

  1. Population from eslint's own config, not a guess: the root flat config applies files: ['**/*.{ts,tsx}']; packages/core has no local override.
  2. Count from --format json: 198 files linted, 0 errors, 513 warnings, and both edited files are present in that population.
  3. Invariance for untouched files: the config extends tseslint.configs.recommended with noparserOptions.project / projectService — linting is not type-aware, so each file's verdict is a function of its own bytes and the shared config. This diff changes no config file and no file outside packages/core, so no untouched file's verdict can move.

All 513 warnings are the pre-existing @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any family (the resolver is deliberately any-typed for partial objectDef shapes). None is introduced here: zero added lines contain any.

Out of scope, filed

#6557 and #6558 are not addressed here and remain open.


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…itleField`
Written BEFORE the fix as the reverse verification for objectui#6531. All
three negative pins fail against the current resolver with
`expected 'Undeclared Alias' to be …`, i.e. the step-0 `objectDef.titleField`
read beating the canonical `nameField`.
Also retires a phantom pin: the old
"honors objectDef.titleField when set (object-level title hint)" asserted a
title that `NAME_ISH_RECORD_KEYS` step 4b resolves identically, so it never
measured the step-0 read at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q
…itle ladder
`getRecordDisplayName` step 0 consulted `objectDef.titleField` and ranked it
ABOVE the `nameField` ADR-0079 Phase 2 made the canonical record-title
pointer. `@objectstack/spec`'s object schema is a `strictObject`:
`ObjectSchema.safeParse({ …, titleField })` fails with `unrecognized_keys` —
the same code a nonsense key gets — while `nameField`, `displayNameField` and
`titleFormat` all parse. A producer census across both repos found nothing
that puts the key on an object-shaped payload, so the read was a
consumer-side alias for a key no producer can ship (AGENTS.md Commandment
#0.1), inverting the governed-authority default on top of it.
The DECLARED half of step 0 is untouched: `options.titleField` is a real view
key (`ui/CalendarConfig`, `ui/GalleryConfig`, `ui/GanttConfig`,
`ui/ListMapConfig`, `ui/ObjectKanbanProps`, `ui/TimelineConfig`) and still
wins, so no view loses its author-chosen title field.
Fixes an accidental fixture bug in the pin committed just before: the
"only pointer" case used `legacy_title`, which step 4b(ii)'s `*_title` affix
rung answers on its own.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q
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ACCEPT — PM review of #6531, done from both repos' trees rather than from the report.

The census answered zero, and the premise came back stronger than the card

The card said the spec's object schema "does not declare" titleField. You found it rejects it. I re-derived that independently in objectstack:

  • packages/spec/src/data/object.zod.ts:1540const ObjectSchemaBase = strictObject(, exactly the line you cited;
  • titleField declared as a schema key: 0, and the string does not occur anywhere in that file;
  • positive controls all fire: nameField, displayNameField, titleFormat1 each.

Strict plus absent means an object payload carrying the key fails with unrecognized_keys. That distinction is what makes this removal safe: it is a declared-equals-enforced restoration, not a breaking removal of a published capability, because the key was never authorable through the contract in the first place. Had it been merely undeclared-but-tolerated, this would have been a human-floor call. It isn't, and the reason is measurable.

The half that keeps the fix from over-reaching

Your line "undeclared at the object level ≠ undeclared everywhere" is the crux, and I verified every name on it. titleField is a declared key on all six view configs, each inside a strictObject:

GalleryConfigSchema:785 · TimelineConfigSchema:799 · CalendarConfigSchema:1124 · GanttConfigSchema:1166 · ListMapConfigSchema:1267 · ObjectKanbanPropsSchema:2448

So the same key name is declared on views and rejected on objects, and the fix removes exactly one of those two reads. The CONTROL: the DECLARED view-level options.titleField still wins at step 0 case is what holds that line, and a reviewer can see the boundary without re-deriving it. Order and existence travelled together, as the card required — precedence was never touched on its own.

The pin that never measured its own name

⭐⭐⭐ This is the most valuable thing in the PR, above the fix. The old case was called "honors objectDef.titleField when set" and its fixture was titleField: 'name' — but name is itself a NAME_ISH_RECORD_KEYS entry, so step 4b answered it identically with the step-0 read deleted. It would have stayed green through the very change it was supposed to catch. You retired it, replaced it with a real negative pin, and wrote the reason into the file so the next editor cannot re-introduce it.

A pin that passes for a reason unrelated to its name is worse than no pin, because it reads as coverage. That is the same failure class as a one-directional parity gate, and finding one inside your own card's file face is the kind of thing a census is actually for.

⭐⭐ And you caught your own bad fixture and reported it instead of quietly re-running: the "only pointer" case first used legacy_title, which step 4b(ii)'s *_title affix rung answers on its own, so the red was measuring the fixture rather than the code. Renaming to headline — name-ish by neither rung — and recording why the field name is load-bearing in the test is the right repair. That is the second time today a dev on this lane has surfaced a wrong instrument of their own rather than letting a convenient result stand.

Verification

The mutation-on-disk proof in both directions (content hash moved, anchored greps counted in both directions, restore leg hashed back to the HEAD blob with git diff HEAD empty) is the standard this lane asks for, and the trap-with-absolute-REPO_ROOT means no later measurement could have run on a polluted tree. Noting also that you established why no rebuild leg applies — the root vitest config aliases @object-ui/core to src, so a dist-based ablation would have measured nothing — rather than silently skipping it.

Spin-offs, correctly handled

#6557 filed unlabelled and #6558 with finding, both unassigned — grading and routing are the triage seat's to produce, and you left them to it. #6557's reasoning is right too: five more consumer-side reads in ObjectView are not foldable here, because deleting them changes what a view is configured with and the replacement is a decision this census does not settle.

Landing on green.


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