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refactor(ui)!: let Form completely own the form-state request lifecycle - #19343
Moves all form-state request handling into the Form component via the new useFormState hook. It now orchestrates the entire form state lifecycle via useFormState, instead of splitting that responbility with its caller:
Previously, callers had to fetch and return server state themselves via the onChange callback:
But the onChange callback should not be responsible for returning form state mutations. This is an anti-pattern. It should only be used to perform side-effects, when applicable. Expecting it to tie into the getFormState server function is far too much overhead to have to configure at each callsite.
Now, Form entirely handles requests and cancellation from just the schema path:
<FormschemaPath={schemaPath}/>
For historical context, it was initial designed this way so that the Form component wasn't so heavily tied to internal Payload patterns. The original hope was that Form could be used as an agnostic form library, e.g. implemented outside the admin panel. That led to far too abstract APIs that introduced a level of complexity that doesn't scale.
Breaking Changes
The return value of onChange and onSuccess is now ignored. They now run only after the new server form state has been applied. Use them strictly to perform side effects:
Moves submission and its state (modified, disabled, submitted,
processing, background processing, successful submit count, focus
restoration) from Form into a useFormSubmission hook. Behavior is
unchanged.
Form now makes its own getFormState requests, after field changes and
after every submission request. Consumers shape the request through the
new `formStateRequest` prop instead of calling getFormState from
`onChange`. The `onChange` and `onSuccess` return values are no longer
merged.
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The PR moves form-state refresh, validation, and post-save updates into shared form hooks. It updates UI and Lexical form integrations, adds a shared reducer for converting form state to data, and documents the revised Form behavior.
Changes: Shared Form lifecycle
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Summary
Form contract and context packages/ui/src/forms/Form/types.ts, packages/ui/src/forms/Form/initContextState.ts, packages/ui/src/forms/Form/index.tsx, packages/ui/src/providers/DocumentInfo/*, packages/ui/src/providers/DocumentInfo/useGetDocPermissions.tsx, packages/ui/src/utilities/buildFormState.ts
Form callbacks no longer return replacement form state. Form context tracks submission state, and Form connects state refresh and submission hooks. DocumentInfo exposes stale status, and permission retrieval returns the permissions it loads.
Form state and submission lifecycle packages/ui/src/forms/Form/useFormState.ts, packages/ui/src/forms/Form/useFormSubmission.tsx
The hooks handle refresh, reset, validation, submission tracking, and post-save refresh. Local submissions can request server validation. Successful saves refresh form state before onSuccess; refresh failures are reported separately.
UI form integrations packages/ui/src/elements/BulkUpload/*, packages/ui/src/elements/EditMany/DrawerContent.tsx, packages/ui/src/elements/FieldSelect/index.tsx, packages/ui/src/fields/Join/index.tsx, packages/ui/src/views/CreateFirstUser/index.client.tsx, packages/ui/src/views/Dashboard/Default/ModularDashboard/WidgetConfigDrawer.tsx, packages/ui/src/views/Edit/index.tsx
Bulk edit, registration, widget, and document edit forms remove local form-state refresh callbacks. Edit-many field selection updates selection directly, and the edit view uses shared stale state.
Data reduction and Lexical forms packages/ui/src/utilities/reduceFormStateToData.ts, packages/ui/src/exports/shared/index.ts, packages/richtext-lexical/src/features/blocks/client/*, packages/richtext-lexical/src/utilities/fieldsDrawer/DrawerContent.tsx, test/lexical/collections/Lexical/*, test/lexical/payload-types.ts
The shared reducer converts row-based form state to data and is used by Lexical forms and cached-state comparison. Lexical tests cover server-required and conditionally displayed fields, and array and null conversion cases.
Migration guidance docs/migration-guide/v4.mdx
The guide describes which forms make server form-state requests, callback and validation behavior, and post-save refresh behavior.
sequenceDiagram
participant Form
participant useFormSubmission
participant useFormState
participant getFormState
participant SaveAction
Form->>useFormSubmission: submit form
useFormSubmission->>useFormState: validate fields and data
useFormState->>getFormState: request server validation when required
getFormState-->>useFormState: return validated form state
useFormState-->>useFormSubmission: return validated fields and data
useFormSubmission->>SaveAction: save validated data
SaveAction-->>useFormSubmission: return save result
useFormSubmission->>useFormState: refresh after successful save
useFormState->>getFormState: request refreshed form state
getFormState-->>useFormState: return refreshed form state
useFormSubmission->>Form: invoke onSuccess
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Possibly related issues
payloadcms/payload#19385 — The PR moves form-state requests and cancellation into Form, overlapping with the issue’s abort and validation interaction.
payloadcms/payload#18907 — The PR changes child Form request handling and update timing, but save-snapshot coordination remains a separate requirement.
payloadcms/payload#18425 — The PR changes form-state request and cancellation handling, overlapping with the stale-response lifecycle described in the issue.
payloadcms/payload#19368 — The PR changes form request handling and post-save refresh, but the value-merge requirement remains distinct.
Editing during validation or a post-save refresh can interrupt the request, potentially failing a local submission or leaving saved server values unapplied. Resolve that lifecycle conflict before merging.
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The Form now derives every form-state arg it can from the document,
operation and form state, and a document's main form handles locking,
stale-data detection and preview URLs itself. Consumers pass only the
args the Form can't know. `onChange` runs once the server state for a
change is applied, which replaces `onResponse`.
onChange waited for the merged state to commit, but a nested form's
transition render can stay pending while its server components load,
so Lexical blocks never wrote their values back to the editor and the
document never became modified.
625-627: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
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Pass initialData when you reduce server-validated fields for submission.
reduceFormStateToData uses initialData to keep null for unmodified array and blocks fields that have zero rows. The request payload at Line 265 passes current.initialData. The submission data at Line 626 does not. As a result, the reducer cannot find the original null. An unmodified empty array field then reduces to [] in the data that goes to onSubmit.
This affects local submissions, for example Lexical block drawers. A block whose array field was stored as null returns [] after the user submits without changes. The stored block data changes. Comparisons with cached form state also stop matching.
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Requires #19425.
Prerequisite for #19343.
Uses `getDataFromFormState` for regular and inline Lexical blocks,
replacing the separate reducer introduced in #17957. Lexical now follows
the same form-state rules as the rest of the admin panel, including
keeping keys with `undefined` values.
## Notable changes
### Empty arrays when unflattening
Lexical and the rest of the admin panel previously handled empty arrays
differently. Lexical could omit the field, while regular form data could
contain its row count (`0`).
This normalizes form-state behavior across Lexical and the rest of the
admin panel so empty arrays come through as `[]` in both.
Explicit empty arrays are now preserved during unflattening when
`overwrite: false` (the default), so stale child fields can't bring
deleted rows back.
`overwrite: true` lets child fields populate the array:
```ts
unflatten({ items: [], 'items.0.title': 'Stale' })
// { items: [] }
unflatten({ items: [], 'items.0.title': 'Stale' }, { overwrite: true })
// { items: [{ title: 'Stale' }] }
```
### disableFormData
`disableFormData` no longer controls how rows are serialized and instead
does what its name implies by keeping a field's value out of form
submissions.
`getDataFromFormState` now builds array and blocks data without needing
`disableFormData` to hide the row count:
```ts
getDataFromFormState(
{
items: {
// disableFormData: true, // No longer needed to omit "value: 1"
rows: [{ id: 'row-1' }],
value: 1,
},
'items.0.id': { value: 'row-1' },
'items.0.title': { value: 'Hello' },
},
true,
)
// { items: [{ id: 'row-1', title: 'Hello' }] }
```
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Requires #19307 and #19384.
Prerequisite for #19203 and #17455.
Moves all form-state request handling into the
Formcomponent via the newuseFormStatehook. It now orchestrates the entire form state lifecycle viauseFormState, instead of splitting that responbility with its caller:Previously, callers had to fetch and return server state themselves via the
onChangecallback:But the
onChangecallback should not be responsible for returning form state mutations. This is an anti-pattern. It should only be used to perform side-effects, when applicable. Expecting it to tie into thegetFormStateserver function is far too much overhead to have to configure at each callsite.Now,
Formentirely handles requests and cancellation from just the schema path:For historical context, it was initial designed this way so that the
Formcomponent wasn't so heavily tied to internal Payload patterns. The original hope was thatFormcould be used as an agnostic form library, e.g. implemented outside the admin panel. That led to far too abstract APIs that introduced a level of complexity that doesn't scale.Breaking Changes
The return value of
onChangeandonSuccessis now ignored. They now run only after the new server form state has been applied. Use them strictly to perform side effects: