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Fixes #1364.

parseWithValibot strips empty-string defaults to undefined, causing optional and nullish string fields to fail validation when missing or submitted empty.

Use lazy and lazyAsync to validate empty-string defaults against the original inner schema while preserving automatic coercion for other values. Dynamic and async defaults are also supported.

Add regression tests for missing and empty inputs, literal and function defaults, async schemas, and existing transformations and validation rules.

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Fixes parseWithValibot so optional, nullish, undefinedable, and exact-optional schemas preserve empty-string defaults. The implementation selects the original inner schema for empty-string defaults and the coerced schema for other values. Regression tests cover synchronous and asynchronous schemas, factory defaults, transformations, validation, and other defaults.

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The Valibot coercion path now preserves empty-string defaults for optional and nullish schemas. Regression tests cover synchronous and asynchronous wrappers, and a changeset declares a patch release.

Changes: Valibot default handling

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Select schema for defaulted input
packages/conform-valibot/coercion.ts, packages/conform-valibot/tests/coercion/schema/empty-default.test.ts, .changeset/empty-valibot-default.md
During validation, wrappers with a defined default select the original inner schema for empty-string input and the coerced schema for other input. Tests cover synchronous and asynchronous wrappers, default factories, inner transformations and validation, and other default values. The changeset declares a patch release for @conform-to/valibot.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The change preserves empty-string defaults while retaining coercion for nonempty values. The remaining changing-factory edge case predates this change and can be addressed separately; merging is reasonable after normal checks.

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Issue #1364 requires optional string fields with default "" to parse to "" for missing and empty input. generateWrappedSchema now uses preserveEmptyDefault to select the original inner schema for the resolved empty default and the coerced schema for other values. Tests cover optional and nullish schemas, synchronous and asynchronous parsing, literal and factory defaults, missing and empty input, transformations, validation, and other default values. The changes also cover the related undefinedable and exactOptional wrapper cases described in the PR objectives.

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Nitpick comments: 1
packages/conform-valibot/tests/coercion/schema/empty-default.test.ts: 1

26-26: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a test where the inner schema changes the empty default.

The should preserve a %s default cases use two inner schemas: v.string() and v.pipe(v.string(), v.trim(), v.maxLength(10)). Neither changes ''. If the empty default skipped the inner schema, the output would still be '', and every case would still pass. A test whose inner transform maps '' to another value would detect that bypass for a missing field. This adds regression coverage for the current behavior. It does not indicate a current failure.

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+		test('should apply inner transformations to an empty-string default', async () => {
+			const schema = v.objectAsync({
+				notes: wrap(
+					v.pipe(v.string(), v.transform((value) => (value === '' ? 'empty' : value))),
+					'',
+				),
+			});
+			expect(
+				await parseWithValibot(new FormData(), { schema }),
+			).toMatchObject({ status: 'success', value: { notes: 'empty' } });
+		});
+
 		test('should resolve default factories only when needed', async () => {
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Thanks for the fix!

I tested the branch locally and it works for optional/nullish.

The same issue still happens with:

  • v.undefinedable(v.string(), '') (empty input)
  • v.exactOptional(v.string(), '') (missing field)

because they don’t go through the new check.

I extracted the logic into a small preserveEmptyDefault helper and used it for those wrappers too, with tests: hexlabelposition@7b40825

It’s on top of your branch, so you can cherry-pick it. Or I can open a follow-up PR after this one is merged, whichever you prefer.

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packages/conform-valibot/coercion.ts:479-480
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Avoid a second default-factory call for a missing exactOptional field that resolves to ''.

For a missing key, the object parser calls the default factory once. If that result is '', the lazy selector calls the factory again. A factory that returns '' first and a nonempty string second can make the selector choose the coerced schema. The coerced schema turns '' into undefined, so the field fails with Expected string. A submitted '' calls the factory only once, inside the selector.

The selector needs one factory result for each parse. Do not replace it with a static type.default === '' check. That check rejects function defaults such as () => '', which packages/conform-valibot/tests/coercion/schema/empty-default.test.ts expects to be preserved.

Add a regression test for a missing field whose factory returns '' on the first call and a nonempty string on later calls. The test should assert that the result is '' and that the factory runs once. The file already uses vi.fn for factory call tracking.

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Note: this behaviour predates this PR (already present at merge base 363289a77f86); the change keeps it reachable.

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Thanks for catching these remaining cases and providing the fix and regression tests! I’ve cherry-picked your commit and verified that the tests pass. The helper extraction makes the handling of empty-string defaults more consistent across wrappers. I appreciate your contribution!

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Thank you both 🫶

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[@conform-to/valibot] v.optional(v.string(), "") fails: the empty-string default is stripped to undefined

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