ListView's sort picker persists a platform-refused sort — the in-use exception re-emits it, and filterPlatformSortableSort has only one consumer

Found while implementing #6108 (converging ListView's sort picker onto isPlatformSortableField). Filed unassigned; deliberately not fixed there, because #6108's dispatch fenced the picker's keep-current-sort behaviour and its own "Scope when picked up" paragraph names only the predicate swap.

What is measured

@object-ui/core ships two halves of objectstack#10235 ruling A, and only one of them has more than a single consumer:

isPlatformSortableField — the RENDER leg, "should this control be offered?". After The other two sort-axis consumers still re-derive sortability from field type — ListView's sort picker and RelatedList #6108 it has four consumers: ObjectGrid's headers, ListView's toolbar sort picker, and both of RelatedList's sort entry points.
filterPlatformSortableSort — the RESTORE/EMIT leg, "drop from a sort list every entry the platform will not order by". Its docblock states the reason plainly: withholding the control stops a fresh unsortable sort from being created, but a sort persisted BEFORE the signal existed is already in stored view state, and replaying it keeps a refused $orderby alive and re-persists it on the next unrelated edit.

grep -rn filterPlatformSortableSort packages/*/src at 27f9d10f6 returns exactly one non-test consumer: packages/plugin-grid/src/ObjectGrid.tsx. ListView's picker is not behind it.

Why that is a leak and not merely an asymmetry

The picker keeps a platform-refused field listed when the CURRENT sort already names it. That exception is correct and deliberate — it is the only way a user can REMOVE a sort the server refuses outright, and without it the row renders blank and the sort is silently dropped on the next edit.

But the picker renders and emits from the same array. Editing anything else in that popover — adding a second sort key, flipping a direction — re-emits the whole sort array with the refused entry still in it. ObjectView's onSortChange turns that into persistViewPatch({ sort }): a personalization PUT that stores a column the platform answers 400 INVALID_SORT for, written by a user who never touched that row.

#5729 closed exactly this at the grid seam by filtering both what it renders and what it emits. The picker is a second door onto the same stored view state.

The design question this needs answered, not just a patch

The in-use exception and the emit filter pull in opposite directions on one array. Closing the leak means separating "what the picker LISTS" from "what the picker PERSISTS" — the refused entry stays visible so it can be removed, while never surviving a write. That is a real seam change in ListView (and possibly in ObjectView's patch path), not a one-line filter call, which is why this is a card rather than a rider.

Worth deciding at the same time: whether RelatedList needs the same treatment. Its sort is component state rather than persisted view state, so it may be out of scope by construction — that should be confirmed rather than assumed.

Refs: #6108 · #5729 · objectstack-ai/objectstack#10235

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Unblocked — Blocked-by: #6108 resolves.

#6108 closed completed: "The other two sort-axis consumers still re-derive sortability from field type — ListView's sort …". That was the hot-file serialization on the sort axis this card was waiting behind.

Returned to pm:queue. Two things for whoever picks it up, both from the unlock scan rather than from the card:

Re-measure the file face on the merged ref first. The other two sort-axis consumers still re-derive sortability from field type — ListView's sort picker and RelatedList #6108 landed on the same sort-axis consumers this card names, so part of what is described here may already be resolved — a card returned by the unlock scan is a candidate, not a verdict.
This card also references objectstack-ai/objectstack#10235, which is a cross-repo reference and is not the Blocked-by: upstream. objectui consumes objectstack as a published package, so if any part of the fix depends on server behaviour, "upstream merged" is not the test — "the installed package exposes it" is. Establish which side the fix lands on before assuming this is a pure objectui change.

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Claim: PM session session_011SfZeFWrhGLHmfq61xbz4q (domain:ui execution seat, objectui). Branch claude/issue-6455-listview-sort-persist-leak. Dispatched this round to one os-dev agent, in its own worktree. Picked as the Bug tier's cleanest card after this round's unlock scan refilled that tier.

Three measurements taken before dispatching, so the order does not rest on the card's memory of the tree:

The one-consumer claim holds exactly. filterPlatformSortableSort has three occurrences repo-wide: its definition in packages/core/src/utils/column-sortability.ts, its test, and one non-test consumer, packages/plugin-grid/src/ObjectGrid.tsx. The picker is indeed not behind it.

The file face is located and both files are free. The picker is packages/plugin-list/src/ListView.tsx (3739 lines; onSortChange ×10, isPlatformSortableField ×3 — the post-#6108 predicate). The persisting ObjectView is packages/app-shell/src/views/ObjectView.tsx (onSortChange ×3, persistViewPatch ×19), which came free when PR #6573 merged at 14:06Z.

A collision was checked and ruled out, not assumed. #6460 is in flight on packages/plugin-view/src/ObjectView.tsx — a different file with the same component name. It carries 0 onSortChange and 0 persistView, against a positive control of 48 hits for sort in the same file, so the zero is a real absence rather than a pattern that never reached the file. No serialization needed between the two cards.

⛔ Out of the dispatched scope, stated to the agent: filterPlatformSortableSort's own definition, ObjectGrid's use of it (#5729 already closed the grid seam and is the precedent this converges on), and anything server-side under objectstack-ai/objectstack#10235. RelatedList is to be confirmed in or out by measurement and reported, ⛔ never swept in.

The correctness constraint the order leads with: the in-use exception must survive. Filtering the array the picker renders from would make a platform-refused sort unremovable, which is a worse defect than the leak. Listing and persisting have to separate.

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os-dev-report

{
  "issue": 6455,
  "status": "done",
  "branch": "claude/issue-6455-listview-sort-persist-leak",
  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectui/pull/6583",
  "premise_still_valid": true,
  "summary": "Confirmed all three of the PM's measurements on the merged ref, then closed the leak in packages/plugin-list/src/ListView.tsx alone — ObjectView's patch path was NOT touched. One hoisted read of the served projection (platformSortability) now feeds both legs, and one emitSortChange boundary is crossed by every onSortChange the component emits (the SortBuilder onChange, handleHeaderSort, handleResetSort); it drops what the projection refuses, while setCurrentSort still takes the array whole so the in-use exception survives — the refused entry stays listed, stays removable, and never reaches a write. Same separation #5729 made at the grid seam (ObjectGrid's manualSort / manualOnSortChange pair). Only under a served projection: undefined stays 'no signal served' and that branch is unchanged. Files: ListView.tsx +58 -8, new test ListView.sortPersistLeak.test.tsx +258, changeset +32. Two findings that correct the order's shape rather than contradict it, both in the PR body: (a) 'reset to default' is a THIRD door onto the same stored sort and leaked identically — handleResetSort re-emits the view's declared array whole, so a declared refused sort re-persisted on every reset; it is covered by the same boundary and pinned by its own test; (b) handleHeaderSort's door was already clean in practice because ObjectGrid filters its emit before the callback fires, so routing it through the boundary is defence in depth, not a second leak fixed.",
  "tests": "All from the repo root per AGENTS.md §怎么跑测试 (never `pnpm --filter <pkg> test` — that silently runs another package's 22 files). Exit codes captured before any pipe; every verdict below is the gate's own printed line. UNION RE-RUN AT FINAL HEAD 2914bd516, clean tree: (1) `pnpm exec vitest run packages/plugin-list/` -> `Test Files 49 passed (49)` / `Tests 696 passed (696)`, VITEST_EXIT=0 — includes the #6108 sibling ListView.sortabilitySignal.test.tsx, still green. (2) `turbo run type-check --filter=@object-ui/plugin-list` -> `Tasks: 14 successful, 14 total`, EXIT=0. NOT-MEASURED trap checked: the package's type-check is `tsc --noEmit && tsc -p tsconfig.test.json`, and `--listFiles` on the second project names BOTH ListView.tsx and ListView.sortPersistLeak.test.tsx, so the clean verdict is about the new file. (3) `turbo run lint --filter=@object-ui/plugin-list` -> `✖ 422 problems (0 errors, 422 warnings)`, EXIT=0. (4) check-changeset-presence `✅ 2 source file(s) of 1 released package(s) changed, and this change declares 1 changeset(s)` EXIT=0 (it demanded the changeset and scored it; declared `patch`, never major). (5) check-changeset-no-major `✅ No changeset declares a major bump.` EXIT=0. (6) check-changeset-overwrite `✅ No pre-existing changeset was modified or deleted.` EXIT=0. (7) check-control-bytes `✅ OK (scanned 5437 tracked text file(s); skipped 85 binary)` EXIT=0, plus my own `grep -naP '[\\x00-\\x08\\x0b\\x0c\\x0e-\\x1f\\x7f]'` over the three changed files (no matches). (8) check-lint-coverage `✅ 46/46 packages linted, 0 with outstanding errors` EXIT=0. (9) check-type-check-coverage `✅ 41/41 packages compile their tests` EXIT=0. (10) check-vi-mock-specifiers `✅ OK` EXIT=0. DECLARED NARROWING — lint was package-scoped, not the repo-wide farm, with all three legs of evidence: universe from the package's own eslint config (`eslint .` inside packages/plugin-list, the exact task CI runs for it); `--format json` counts 60 files, 0 errors; and eslint.config.js enables NO type-aware linting (no projectService, no parserOptions.project), so this diff cannot move the verdict of any untouched file. The new test's 9 warnings are all @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any — the same class as, and fewer than, its #6108 sibling's 14. REVERSE-VERIFICATION, direction predicted before running (predicted: exactly the two fix-direction assertions red, all four controls green — observed exactly that). Fix committed FIRST (8761cfe7e), then the pre-fix expression restored from merge-base 12402a9b8; mutation confirmed ON DISK before reading anything: emitSortChange count 0 (expect 0), pre-fix spelling `if (onSortChange) onSortChange(newSort)` count 1 (expect 1), blob hash a4ff10e1 != HEAD blob f5245657. Result `PRE-FIX EXIT=1`, `Test Files 1 failed (1)`, `Tests 2 failed | 4 passed (6)`: red = 'drops the platform-refused entry from the write an UNRELATED edit causes' (received [{remote_status,asc},{name,asc}] — the leak itself, written by a user who only added a second key) and 'drops the refused entry from a reset-to-default write too' (received [{remote_status,asc}]). Green through the mutation = the four controls the naive render-side filter would fail: the refused entry still LISTED while in use (['Name','Amount','Remote Status']), REMOVING it persists the removal (sort: []), a sort with nothing refused persists byte-identically ([amount,name] in order), and a deployment serving NO projection is untouched ([remote_status,name]). Restore leg given equal treatment: `git checkout HEAD -- <abs path>` (never bare `git checkout --`, which would re-take the mutation out of the poisoned index), then PROVEN — emitSortChange back to 7, hash-object == HEAD blob f52456576e7b4be7589b388a380510683c99eb49, `git diff HEAD` empty in worktree AND index. No build/dist leg applies: the root vitest.config.mts aliases @object-ui/* to src, so nothing was read from a stale dist.",
  "open_questions": [],
  "out_of_scope_findings": [
    "RelatedList: measured, NOT filed — out of scope by construction, exactly as the card suspected. packages/plugin-detail/src/RelatedList.tsx has 84 hits for `sort` (positive control: the sort surface is fully present, so the zeros below are real absences), 1 `onSortChange` which is an INBOUND prop handed to the embedded table (`onSortChange: handleTableSort`), and handleTableSort only calls setSortField / setSortDirection / setCurrentPage. 0 persistViewPatch, 0 persistView, 0 localStorage, and RelatedListProps declares no sort callback at all (onRowClick / onRowAction / onToolbarAction only), so no host can persist it. The sort is component state that dies with the component: nothing to leak, no sibling card to file.",
    "No other findings. Nothing incidental was fixed and no unrelated defect was met."
  ]
}

Draft PR #6583 is open with the full seam rationale, the reverse-verification transcript and the gate table. Per the dispatch contract, CI convergence is the PM's to read — gate status at report time is whatever the freshly pushed head produces.

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Post-merge verification — clean. PR #6583 merged 16:52:05Z as bd2f56ae5211; verified against origin/main at bd2f56ae5, not against the PR diff or the dev's report.

This check is not "is the fix present" — it is did the deliberate omissions survive, and did the rejected options sneak in.

what had to hold	reading on `origin/main`
the fix funnels every emit	`emitSortChange` at `ListView.tsx:2530`, single `filterPlatformSortableSort(next, platformSortability)` call at `:2535`; every `onSortChange` in the component crosses it
⛔ the in-use exception is NOT filtered out of the render leg	intact at `:2492` — `if (inUse.has(field.value)) fields.push(…)` still lists a platform-refused field while the current sort names it
⛔ #5729's grid seam untouched (it is the evidence, not a target)	`ObjectGrid.tsx` still carries 3 `filterPlatformSortableSort` mentions; `git diff` across the merge for `packages/plugin-grid/` is empty
⛔ `RelatedList` untouched	`git diff` across the merge for `packages/plugin-detail/` is empty
no-signal behaviour unchanged	the filter is gated on a truthy `platformSortability`; with no served projection the pre-objectstack#10235 path stands

The in-use exception is the one that mattered. The tidier-looking wrong fix here is to filter the refused field out of the list as well — which would have removed the user's only way to delete a sort the server refuses outright, turning a persistence leak into a trapped row. It survived, and the reason is now written into the source above the boundary rather than living in this card.

The card's open question was answered, not assumed. It asked for RelatedList to be confirmed out of scope. The PR measured it with a positive control: 84 sort hits (proving the surface is present, so a zero elsewhere in the file is a real absence), 1 onSortChange which is an inbound prop whose handler only touches component state, 0 persistViewPatch. Out of scope by construction, established rather than asserted.

Consumer census moved in the right direction. This card measured filterPlatformSortableSort at exactly one non-test consumer (ObjectGrid). It is now two — ObjectGrid and ListView — with the render leg isPlatformSortableField still at its four.

⚠️ Instrument note, recorded because the zero nearly stood: the first census ran with a -- 'packages/*/src' pathspec, which matched nothing, and both the finding query and its control came back empty. The control is what exposed it. A pathspec that matches no files reports every query as a clean zero.

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