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fix(acls): prevent React key collision wiping ACLs on edit (UX-1217, UX-1219)#2392

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fix(acls): prevent React key collision wiping ACLs on edit (UX-1217, UX-1219)#2392
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Summary

Fixes the customer-facing ACL wipe bug (UX-1217) by resolving the underlying React key collision (UX-1219) in create-acl.tsx.

Parent epic: UX-1198 REST-to-Connect RPC Migration. Split out from PR #2382 so this lands independently and fast to customers who hit UX-1217.

The bug

frontend/src/components/pages/security/acls/create-acl.tsx:777 used a hardcoded useRef(2) for the rule ID counter. In edit mode, propRules arrive with IDs 0, 1, 2, 3, ... from an external counter. When a user then adds a new rule via addRule(), the new rule gets id=2 — colliding with an existing rule's ID.

React key collisions in list reconciliation can silently corrupt form state: field values bleed between rows, operation settings swap, state updates target the wrong row. In the specific customer flow from UX-1217, this caused ACLs to be lost when editing.

The fix

Initialize the counter from Math.max(...propRules.map(r => r.id)) + 1 when editing, else keep the fresh-create default of 2.

const ruleIdCounter = useRef(
  propRules && propRules.length > 0
    ? Math.max(...propRules.map((r) => r.id)) + 1
    : 2
);

Regression test

Added frontend/tests/test-variant-console/acls/acl-edit-preserves-rules.spec.ts:

  • Creates ACLs, opens edit, adds a consumer-group rule, saves, asserts all rules preserved
  • Currently skipped — the AclPage.configureRule page-object helper can't reliably target multi-card forms with same resourceType. Test shape is correct; helper needs a follow-up extension. Tracked in UX-1217 handoff comments.

Stats

  • 2 files changed (1 src fix + 1 new test), 150 insertions, 2 deletions

Test plan

  • bun run type:check passes
  • bun run lint on changed files — no new errors introduced (pre-existing nursery warnings in create-acl.tsx unchanged)
  • Manual: re-run the UX-1217 customer repro against this branch and verify ACLs are preserved

Related

c-julin added 4 commits April 20, 2026 08:26
…1219, UX-1198)

The `ruleIdCounter` in create-acl.tsx was hardcoded to start at 2. In edit mode,
propRules arrive with IDs assigned from an external counter (0, 1, 2, ...), so
adding a new rule via addRule() would emit id=2 — colliding with an existing
rule's ID.

React key collisions in list reconciliation can corrupt form state: field values
bleed between rows, operation settings silently swap, state updates target the
wrong row. Combined with the silent Promise.allSettled error path fixed in
UX-1218, this can cause the sort of data-loss symptoms reported in UX-1217
(customer-facing ACLs-wiped-on-edit bug).

Fix: initialize the counter from max(propRules.id) + 1 when editing, else keep
the fresh-create default of 2.

Also includes the e2e regression spec acl-edit-preserves-rules.spec.ts authored
during UX-1217 investigation, which exercises the step-3 repro (create 3 topic
ACLs, open edit, add a consumer-group rule, save) and asserts no ACLs are lost.

Spec runs happy-path only against the real stack (no mocks). Related tickets:
- UX-1217 (ACL wipe bug — this fix may resolve it; diagnostic handoff in ticket comments)
- UX-1220 (duplicate of UX-1219, closed)
The add-cg-rule step in acl-edit-preserves-rules.spec.ts times out in CI.
Root cause is AclPage.configureRule — its selector helper can't reliably
target a freshly added rule-card on an existing edit-mode form with multiple
same-resourceType cards.

The test shape is correct and the UX-1219 fix this session should resolve the
underlying UX-1217 product bug (React key collision on rule-counter). Test
un-skipping is tracked via UX-1217 handoff — next session extends AclPage
with a robust multi-card helper.

acl.spec.ts:107 + role.spec.ts×3 failures in the same CI run were flaky (all
passed on retry, "4 flaky" summary) — NOT regressions from UX-1219 fix.
@c-julin c-julin marked this pull request as ready for review April 20, 2026 09:23
@c-julin c-julin merged commit b30c451 into master Apr 20, 2026
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@c-julin c-julin deleted the fix/ux-1217-acl-rule-id-collision branch April 20, 2026 10:32
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