useActionData receives data from wrong action

[MoSattler]

What version of Remix are you using?

2.2.0

Are all your remix dependencies & dev-dependencies using the same version?

• Yes

Steps to Reproduce

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Steps:

1. Submit parent.tsx (and notice that it posts to the correct action handler)
2. Go to /parent/child
3. Submit parent.child.tsx and notice that parents.tsx also updates to data from parent.child.tsx

Expected Behavior

that the component in parent.tsx only gets data from the action defined in parent.tsx.

Actual Behavior

When submitting parent.child.tsx, the component in parent.tsx receives data from action in parent.child.tsx.

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[brophdawg11]

This is fixed by #11023 and will be available in the next release 👍

[github-actions]

🤖 Hello there,

We just published version 6.19.0-pre.0 which involves this issue. If you'd like to take it for a test run please try it out and let us know what you think!

Thanks!

[github-actions]

🤖 Hello there,

We just published version 6.19.0 which involves this issue. If you'd like to take it for a test run please try it out and let us know what you think!

Thanks!

[nicolas-besnard]

This doesn't seem to be a bug, but rather a feature. Looking at the useActionData documentation ( https://remix.run/docs/en/main/hooks/use-action-data#useactiondata):

Returns the serialized data from the most recent route action or undefined if there isn't one.

I would say that what you are experiencing is the expected behaviour

[brophdawg11]

@nicolas-besnard - "most recent route action" is referring to the current contextual route in context, not any route in the tree. Otherwise, useActionData<typeof action>(); would be completely unreliable since the action data could be from any acton function in the app - not the specific action you are typing it with (the one for that route).