@ashley-shrok/viewmodel-shell 3.6.1 → 3.6.2

package/dist/browser.js

@@ -688,6 +688,25 @@ export class BrowserAdapter {
                 o.selected = isMulti ? selectedSet.has(opt.value) : opt.value === selectedSingle;
                 sel.appendChild(o);
             });
+            // A <select> ALWAYS displays a selected option — HTML auto-selects the
+            // first when none is explicitly `selected`. VMS is state-driven: the
+            // submitted _state carries the value, NOT a DOM harvest, so the value the
+            // user SEES selected must be reflected in state. Without this seed a select
+            // whose bound path has no value (or that the user leaves at its displayed
+            // default) writes NOTHING to state — its key is ABSENT on dispatch even
+            // though an option is visibly chosen — so presence-checking server
+            // validators report it unset. Seed the effective displayed value whenever
+            // state doesn't already carry it. An app wanting a "please choose" state
+            // uses a placeholder option (value ""): the seeded value is then "" — an
+            // explicit empty the server can reject, never a silently-missing key.
+            if (isMulti) {
+                if (!Array.isArray(stateValue)) {
+                    this.sa.write(n.bind, Array.from(sel.selectedOptions, o => o.value));
+                }
+            }
+            else if (stateValue === undefined || String(stateValue) !== sel.value) {
+                this.sa.write(n.bind, sel.value);
+            }
             sel.addEventListener("change", () => {
                 if (isMulti) {
                     const arr = Array.from(sel.selectedOptions).map(o => o.value);

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@ashley-shrok/viewmodel-shell",
-  "version": "3.6.1",
+  "version": "3.6.2",
   "description": "A server-driven UI framework where the wire format is structured enough that agents can build full-stack apps without ever opening a browser and all UI tests are pure unit tests with no browser runtime. Server returns a JSON tree of typed nodes; a thin TypeScript adapter renders it to DOM. Backend-agnostic \u2014 a .NET reference backend ships with the repo, but any language can produce the JSON contract.",
   "type": "module",
   "license": "MIT",