Create dialog ignores a field's defaultValue — a required select with a default renders empty and forces a manual choice #5150

Summary

A field that declares defaultValue and required: true renders in the create dialog with no value selected and a required marker, so the user is forced to pick something the system already knows. The default is served to the console; the create form just does not apply it.

Measured 2026-08-04, @objectstack/console shipped with 17.0.0-rc.1, zh-CN console, fresh database, object create dialog from an object list page.

Repro

Field declaration:

status: Field.select({
  label: 'Status',
  required: true,
  defaultValue: 'draft',
  options: [
    { label: 'Draft',            value: 'draft',    default: true },
    { label: 'Pending Approval', value: 'pending'  },
    { label: 'Approved',         value: 'approved' },
    { label: 'Rejected',         value: 'rejected' },
  ],
}),

Note both spellings are present — the option's default: true and the field's defaultValue.

The default reaches the console intact. GET /api/v1/meta/objects/crm_customer_rating:

"status": {
  "label": "Status", "type": "select", "required": true,
  "defaultValue": "draft",
  "options": [{ "label": "Draft", "value": "draft", "default": true }, "..."]
}

Expected: the create dialog opens with Draft preselected.
Actual: the select shows its placeholder (请选择 / Select…) with a required asterisk. Nothing is preselected; the form cannot be submitted until the user opens the dropdown and picks a value by hand.

The server side is fine — a create that omits the field entirely is accepted and stored as draft:

$ curl --noproxy '*' -b cookies.txt -H 'Origin: http://localhost:4001' \
    -X POST http://localhost:4001/api/v1/data/crm_customer_rating \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{"crm_account":"...","rating_year":2026}'
{"record":{"...":"...","status":"draft"}}

So this is purely the create form not seeding its default values from the object schema.

Why it matters beyond ergonomics

For a status-like field the forced choice is not neutral — every option is one click away and some of them have side effects. In our app choosing Approved at creation time immediately publishes a grade onto the parent customer record from a scorecard with no facts entered yet. The safe value is the declared default; the UI just refuses to use it.

More generally: defaultValue + required is a normal, correct way to model "this has a sensible starting value". Right now that combination produces the worst create-form experience of any modelling choice — strictly worse than declaring no default at all.

Note

There is code in plugin-form-*.js that builds default values from the object schema —

Object.keys(l.fields).forEach(t => {
  let n = l.fields[t];
  n.defaultValue !== void 0 && (e[t] = n.defaultValue);
});

— but the object create dialog does not appear to go through it. If that is a component-wiring gap rather than a missing feature, it may be a small fix.

Workaround we shipped

We removed the field from the create form entirely (via a visibleWhen predicate keyed on the record's autonumber being empty) and let the server apply the default. That works, but it is a workaround for the form not honouring metadata it already has — and it only works because conditional visibility happens to be usable here; see #5149 for the ways it is not.