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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions packages/vue-table/src/FlexRender.ts
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Expand Up @@ -43,6 +43,13 @@ export function flexRender(render: any, props: any): any {
return rendered
}

// An empty string renders to nothing on the server but Vue still emits a
// text node, producing a hydration mismatch when the client renders the
// same empty cell. Return null so both sides agree on no output.
if (rendered === '') {
return null
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

rg -n -C 3 'cell\?:|header\?:|footer\?:|ColumnDefTemplate' packages --glob '*.ts' --glob '*.tsx'
rg -n -C 5 'empty|FlexRender|flexRender' packages/vue-table/tests/unit/rendering.test.ts

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- FlexRender.ts ---'
cat -n packages/vue-table/src/FlexRender.ts

printf '%s\n' '--- Vue rendering tests around FlexRender ---'
cat -n packages/vue-table/tests/unit/rendering.test.ts | sed -n '1,180p'

printf '%s\n' '--- Vue package metadata and available test files ---'
fd -i 'package.json|rendering.test.ts|FlexRender' packages/vue-table

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- Dedicated flexRender tests ---'
cat -n packages/vue-table/tests/unit/flexRender.test.ts

printf '%s\n' '--- Read-only control-flow probe ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re

source = Path("packages/vue-table/src/FlexRender.ts").read_text()

function_body = re.search(
    r"export function flexRender\(render: any, props: any\): any \{(.*?)\n\}",
    source,
    re.S,
)
assert function_body, "flexRender definition not found"
body = function_body.group(1)

function_empty = re.search(r"if \(typeof render === 'function'\) \{.*?if \(rendered === ''\) \{\s*return null", body, re.S)
assert function_empty, "function-return empty-string normalization not found"

direct_empty = re.search(r"if \(render === ''\)", body)
assert direct_empty is None, "direct empty-string normalization already exists"

for field, call in [
    ("cell", "return flexRender(def.cell, cell.getContext())"),
    ("header", "return flexRender(\n          props.header.column.columnDef.header"),
    ("footer", "return flexRender(\n          props.footer.column.columnDef.footer"),
]:
    assert call in source, f"{field} does not flow through flexRender"

def control_flow(render, props=None):
    if render is None:
        return render
    if callable(render):
        rendered = render(props)
        if rendered is None:
            return rendered
        if rendered == "":
            return None
        return rendered
    return render

assert control_flow("") == "", "probe setup changed unexpectedly"
assert control_flow(lambda _: "") is None, "function-return empty string was not normalized"
print("direct empty string ->", repr(control_flow("")))
print("function-return empty string ->", repr(control_flow(lambda _: "")))
print("all control-flow assertions passed")
PY

Repository: TanStack/table

Length of output: 2276

Normalize direct empty-string render values.

flexRender('') returns '', while only function results are normalized to null. Normalize direct empty strings before the function branch and add regression tests for both paths.

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In `@packages/vue-table/src/FlexRender.ts` around lines 46 - 52, Update FlexRender
so direct empty-string values are normalized to null before the function-render
branch, while preserving normalization for empty strings returned by render
functions. Add regression coverage for both direct empty-string input and
function output.

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if (typeof rendered === 'function' || typeof rendered === 'object') {
return h(rendered, props)
}
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