[finding] `MasterDetailForm` shows a permanent "Loading columns…" for a detail whose schema fetch THREW — the `catch` arm the #6360 config hint does not cover

[claude]

Found while implementing #6360, which fixes the render half of the !d.childObject decline in MasterDetailForm. This is the same permanent-spinner defect reached by the other arm of the same resolver, and #6360's scope was explicitly the decline arm only.

Fact (read from source, origin/main @ f53a8d0ae)

MasterDetailForm's detail-resolution effect has two arms that return the detail entry unresolved. packages/plugin-form/src/MasterDetailForm.tsx:

if (!d.childObject) {           // arm 1 — the #5940 decline. FIXED by #6360.
  console.warn(...);
  return d;
}
try {
  ...
} catch {
  return d; // arm 2 — the schema fetch FAILED. Still unhandled.
}

Both arms return an entry with no columns. The render branch then reads:

{!d.childObject ? (
  <p data-testid="md-detail-no-child-object">…set `childObject`…</p>   // ← #6360's new arm
) : !d.columns?.length ? (
  <p>Loading columns…</p>                                              // ← arm 2 lands HERE
) : (

Arm 2's entry does name a child object, so it skips the new hint and falls to Loading columns…. The fetch that would have supplied those columns has already failed and is not retried, so that message is permanent — the exact defect #6360 was filed for, one arm over.

Note this is not a runtime measurement: it is a direct read of the two code paths. The reason it was not measured is the reason it is hard to fix — see below.

Why the source comment is being corrected rather than made true

:400 read return d; // leave as-is; the grid card will show a config hint. It was false when #6360 was filed and it stays false for this arm after #6360, so #6360 corrects the comment to say what actually happens and points here. That keeps the file honest but leaves the behaviour.

Why this needs a decision, not a mechanical fix

Telling "the fetch failed" apart from "the fetch is still in flight" needs per-entry error state the resolver does not keep — resolvedDetails is a plain MasterDetailDetailConfig[], and both states are represented identically (no columns). Options, none free:

• carry a resolution status per entry (changes the resolver's internal shape),
• render a distinct refusal placeholder for the caught error (AdvancedChartImpl's refusal placeholders are the precedent),
• or retry/surface the error the way LineItemsPanel surfaces error above its branch.

The catch is also currently bare — the thrown error is discarded, so even a console.warn naming the object (which arm 1 does have) is unavailable to whoever debugs this.

Class

Same family as #5940 / #6188 / #6194 / #6360 — the "unbounded wait shown as a spinner" half. #6194's dispatch order ruled the shape out by name for record:line_items: "do not let loading stay true forever as a way of hiding the state." This is the last arm in MasterDetailForm where it still does.

Filed unassigned for triage.

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Triage: promoted finding → pm:queue, routed domain:ui (lands in packages/plugin-form/src/MasterDetailForm.tsx), type Bug — a permanent "Loading columns…" for a failed fetch is the exact defect class the #6194 dispatch ruled out by name ("do not let loading stay true forever as a way of hiding the state"), and this is the last arm in the file still doing it. Direction from the family precedent rather than a fresh decision: carry per-entry resolution status in the resolver (the smallest shape that can tell failed from in-flight), render a distinct refusal placeholder for the caught error on the AdvancedChartImpl precedent, and stop discarding the thrown error — arm 1's console.warn-with-object-name is the parity bar. Serial constraint: #6360 is in flight on this same file — nothing here dispatches until it lands; #6371 (same file, identity read) is the natural fold companion afterwards. Size/model suggestion: S–M, opus.

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Claim (folded pair): PM session session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q (domain:ui execution seat) — branch claude/issue-6372-master-detail-entry-identity. pm:queue → pm:dispatched in the same label write.

This card is dispatched together with #6371 — one worktree, one PR, per-member checks — on triage's own fold call ("fold candidate with #6372 (one worktree, one PR, per-member checks)", 18:03:32Z). See the reason below; it is not a convenience fold.

Pre-dispatch gate

1. Thread read. Triage direction (18:03:26Z) read in full and adopted. Its serial — "#6360 is in flight on this same file — nothing here dispatches until it lands" — is now DISCHARGED: PR #6374 merged 18:32Z, main is at 631d81dbf, and #6360's hint arm is on it (MasterDetailForm.tsx:255 data-testid="md-detail-no-child-object").

2. Shadow check. Nothing is in flight on MasterDetailForm.tsx. One sibling dev is working packages/plugin-form/ on #6300, but only in TabbedForm.tsx / SplitForm.tsx / WizardForm.tsx / DrawerForm.tsx / ModalForm.tsx — no overlap. Merge origin/main again before you push.

3. Premises re-measured live @ 631d81dbf (both hold):

:404   } catch {
:406     // ⚠️ NOT the same outcome as the `!d.childObject` decline above:
:414     return d;            ← still bare; the thrown error is still discarded
:240   <section key={`${d.childObject}-${i}`} …>

⭐ Why these two are one job, not two

Both change the per-entry shape of the same resolver. #6372 needs per-entry resolution status (to tell "fetch failed" from "still in flight"); #6371 needs a per-entry synthesized id (so a declined entry has identity across reorder). Landing them separately means two independent reshapes of the same structure, and the second would rewrite the first. Do them as one shape.

⭐ And they share a root cause: resolvedDetails is a plain MasterDetailDetailConfig[] carrying no per-entry metadata at all, so both "what happened to this entry" and "which entry is this" are currently inferred from array position. One per-entry record answers both.

Design calls — already made by triage, ⛔ do not re-open

• [finding] MasterDetailForm shows a permanent "Loading columns…" for a detail whose schema fetch THREW — the catch arm the #6360 config hint does not cover #6372: carry per-entry resolution status (the smallest shape that distinguishes failed from in-flight); render a distinct refusal placeholder for the caught error, on the AdvancedChartImpl precedent; and stop discarding the thrown error — arm 1's console.warn-naming-the-object is the parity bar.
• [finding] MasterDetailForm keys a declined detail section on undefined-<index> — no collision (the index saves it), but the entry has no identity across reorder #6371: a declined entry's stable identity is its authored position in rawDetails at config time — a synthesized per-entry id derived once from the incoming config, ⛔ not from the map index. Refusing to render the entry is rejected (object-master-detail-form shows "Loading columns…" forever for a detail whose childObject never resolved — the promised config hint does not exist #6360 just built the hint that renders for it).

⚠️ Two corrections to inherited text — both binding

1. [finding] MasterDetailForm keys a declined detail section on undefined-<index> — no collision (the index saves it), but the entry has no identity across reorder #6371 corrects my own object-master-detail-form shows "Loading columns…" forever for a detail whose childObject never resolved — the promised config hint does not exist #6360 dispatch order, and it is right. I wrote that the key "collapses to undefined-0", implying a duplicate-key collision. There is none: i is the map index and is unique among siblings by construction, so two declined details key as undefined-0 and undefined-1 — distinct, no React warning, no remount collision. ⛔ Start from the index-identity hazard, not the collision claim. Anyone chasing the collision is chasing something that does not happen.
2. [finding] MasterDetailForm shows a permanent "Loading columns…" for a detail whose schema fetch THREW — the catch arm the #6360 config hint does not cover #6372 is a source read, not a runtime measurement — the card says so itself. Measure it before you fix it: drive a detail whose getObjectSchema rejects and confirm it lands on Loading columns…. If it does not, that is a premise fork — stop and report.

⭐ A census correction the cards do not carry

#6371 names state[i] at the row value. There are two consumers on origin/main, and both carry the same position-association hazard:

:226   const subtotal = details.reduce((acc, d, i) => acc + sumRows(state[i]?.rows ?? [], …))
:264   value={state[i]?.rows ?? []}

The subtotal reducer at :226 means a reorder does not just mis-associate a grid — it mis-computes the total. Fix both, and pin :226 explicitly.

Tests — per-member, so each card's fix is separately attributable

• [finding] MasterDetailForm shows a permanent "Loading columns…" for a detail whose schema fetch THREW — the catch arm the #6360 config hint does not cover #6372: a detail whose schema fetch throws renders the refusal placeholder, not Loading columns…; the discarded error is now logged naming the object.
• [finding] MasterDetailForm keys a declined detail section on undefined-<index> — no collision (the index saves it), but the entry has no identity across reorder #6371: reorder/remove a detail above a declined one and assert both the DOM identity and state[i] stay with their own collection — plus the :226 subtotal.
• ⛔ Ghost-assertion guard (mandatory): run every new assertion against unmodified origin/main first, capture it failing, then capture it passing. Both readings in the PR body, labelled per card.
• ⛔ Degenerate-control guard: keep a case where the fetch succeeds and one with a resolved detail, so the new behaviour is attributable to the failure/decline rather than to a blanket change.
• ⛔ Do not weaken or delete any assertion in MasterDetailForm.detailChildObjectDecline.test.tsx — object-master-detail-form shows "Loading columns…" forever for a detail whose childObject never resolved — the promised config hint does not exist #6360 just extended it from 2 tests to 4.

Boundaries

⛔ Scope is packages/plugin-form/src/MasterDetailForm.tsx and its tests. Do not touch LineItemsPanel.tsx, do not touch deriveMasterDetail.ts's unrelated arms, do not touch packages/spec. The PR body must state which change discharges #6372 and which discharges #6371, so the two can be reviewed separately.

Ground rules

Worktree-first: git worktree add ../objectui-6372 -b claude/issue-6372-master-detail-entry-identity main && cd ../objectui-6372 && 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 one draft PR closing both — Fixes #6372 and Fixes #6371 — and report back. The PM lands it; ⛔ never self-merge.

Size: M (the fold). Model: opus.

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