fix(workflow_to_api): apply subgraph instance promoted-widget values; primitive-fed inputs beat stale widget residue - #722
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… primitive-fed inputs beat stale widget residue Two related value-resolution bugs, both of which made conversion silently diverge from the frontend's graphToPrompt: 1. A subgraph instance's promoted-widget values (its widgets_values array, one entry per widget-type def input in def order) never reached the interior nodes - conversion fell back to the interior defaults saved in the definition. Any prompt/seed/name edited on the instance was silently ignored. This bites every official template built as a curated subgraph: e.g. all MiniMax H3 video templates convert with the definition's placeholder prompt instead of the instance prompt. Fix: during expansion, synthesize a virtual PrimitiveNode per promoted value and wire it to the def input's interior targets - the existing primitive-value machinery then injects the value and drops the virtual node from the output, exactly as for user-placed primitives. Def inputs with an external link on the instance are skipped (the link wins; their widgets_values entries are stale residue). 2. Assembly preferred widget_inputs over primitive_inputs, so a primitive-fed input lost to the consuming node's stale widgets_values entry whenever one existed. Frontend semantics: a widget converted to an input and wired takes the incoming value. Precedence flipped (also in the unknown-order preservation loop). Repro for (1): convert any official minimax_h3 video template and compare the executed prompt against the instance widgets; before this change the "Vaporwave title sequence" definition placeholder runs instead of the instance's prompt. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WDDgJAus5uLUGWNsLcy3zr
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Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SubgraphInstance
participant SubgraphExpansion
participant InteriorNode
participant APIConversion
SubgraphInstance->>SubgraphExpansion: provide widgets_values
SubgraphExpansion->>InteriorNode: inject promoted values through virtual PrimitiveNode links
InteriorNode->>APIConversion: expose converted inputs
APIConversion-->>SubgraphInstance: emit primitive values before widgets, defaults, and links
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Requesting changes. The bug is real and worth fixing, and the mechanism you chose — synthesize a virtual PrimitiveNode and let the existing primitive machinery inject it — is the right shape. But the index derivation is wrong, and on real templates it doesn't produce the definition defaults instead of instance values; it produces other inputs' values.
What it does to the official template set
I converted all 459 official templates (comfyui_workflow_templates_json, 153 of them carrying subgraph definitions) on main and on this branch and diffed the resulting API prompts.
17 templates change. All 17 are corrupted. None are fixed.
The clearest one, video_ltx2_i2v.json:
CLIPTextEncode.text : 'A close-up shot of a y…' -> '121'
PrimitiveInt.value : '121' -> 'A close-up shot of a young waitress…'
The prompt and the frame count are swapped. Type-mismatch count across the corpus: main 8 (in 4 templates, pre-existing), this branch 23 (in 14). Ten templates newly acquire a value whose type contradicts the declared input type — CFGGuider.cfg <- 'capybara_v0.1.safetensors', ControlNetApplyAdvanced.strength <- 'qwen_2.5_vl_7b_fp8_scaled.safetensors', EmptyImage.width <- "squish it -- a woman's voice…".
That count is a lower bound, because a wrong value of the right type is invisible to it:
audio_ace_step_1_5_split_llm.json
timesignature : '4' -> 'en'
language : 'en' -> '4'
So this is worse than the bug it fixes. Today those templates run with the interior defaults — wrong values, but self-consistent ones that execute. With this change they'd be submitted with a prompt string in an INT slot.
Why the index is wrong
The assumption is that the instance's widgets_values holds one entry per def input of a promoted type, in def-input order. Measured against the 207 real subgraph instances:
widgets_values empty → early return, harmless |
159 |
| length matches promoted-def-input count | 34 |
| length disagrees | 14 |
But length agreement isn't sufficient — audio_ace_step_1_5_split_llm above is in the aligned 34 and is still swapped. So it isn't an off-by-N; def-input order is simply not the order the instance stores its widget values in.
Concretely, video_ltx2_i2v.json's def inputs are value(INT), text(STRING), image(IMAGE), ckpt_name, text_encoder, lora_name, model_name — 6 promoted — while the instance carries 8 widgets_values, starting ['A close-up shot…', 121, None, None, …]. The string comes first, so the frontend is not walking def inputs in this order, and there are two more values than promoted inputs to receive them.
Two things in the data that may point at the real rule: the subgraph definition has its own top-level widgets key (empty [] in these templates, so it isn't populated here but looks like the intended home for a promotion list), and the instance's inputs[] entries carry an explicit {"widget": {"name": …}} marker distinguishing widget-backed inputs from link inputs. Deriving the mapping by name from one of those, rather than positionally from def-input order, is what would make this robust — and it would fail closed rather than silently mis-assign when the shapes disagree.
Why the tests pass anyway
TestSubgraphPromotedWidgets builds a definition with two def inputs — pixels (IMAGE, not promoted) and text (STRING, promoted). With exactly one promoted input, every possible ordering rule produces the same answer, so no ordering bug can surface. The four cases are good ones for the behaviours they target (override, virtual node not emitted, link wins, missing values), but none of them can fail on order.
A fixture with ≥3 promoted inputs of different types, in an order that differs from the instance's, would have caught this — and asserting the resulting value types match the declared input types would catch the whole class.
The second fix looks fine, but nothing here exercises it
The primitive_inputs before widget_inputs flip changed zero of the 459 templates — every one of the 17 diffs traces to the subgraph injection. So the reordering is not a regression risk on this corpus, but it also isn't confirmed by it; your own unit tests are the only evidence for it. Worth splitting into its own PR — it's independently correct-looking and would land immediately, instead of waiting on the subgraph work.
Suite
pytest tests/comfy_cli on this branch: 4763 passed, the only failure being test_non_fast_deps_uses_global_python, which fails identically on clean main here — so your four new tests do pass, which is rather the point. ruff check + ruff format --diff clean at the CI-pinned 0.15.15.
Happy to re-run the full-corpus differential once the ordering is reworked — it's scripted now, and "17 templates change, all 17 corrupted" turning into "N change, all N correct" is exactly the signal this needs.
…t marker The promoted-widget index was derived from an allowlist of def-input types (STRING/INT/FLOAT/BOOLEAN/COMBO). A promoted widget can carry any type at all, so a node-pack type fell through the allowlist, consumed no slot, and shifted every later value into the wrong input — on the official corpus that put "two_speakers" into WanInfiniteTalkToVideo.audio_scale (FLOAT) and 1 into CLIPTextEncode.text (STRING). The order was never wrong; the set of inputs that count as promoted was. A def input is promoted exactly when the interior input it feeds is itself widget-backed, which the serialized graph already marks with a `widget` key on that interior input slot. Read it off the interior instead of guessing from the declared type: exact on all 78 non-empty subgraph instances in the template corpus (the allowlist misses 2), 519 assignments with zero type mismatches against the declared def-input types, and no duplication of the module's own `_is_widget_spec` classifier. Also fail closed: on any count disagreement, skip injection and keep the interior defaults. Those are wrong but self-consistent and executable, where a misaligned guess submits a prompt string into an INT slot. Corpus differential over 499 official templates with real object_info: 12 templates change, all corrected, every changed value traceable to an instance widgets_values entry. Type mismatches return to main's pre-existing baseline of 8 (all in unrelated Load3D nodes), down from 12 on the previous revision of this branch. TestSubgraphPromotedWidgetOrdering covers it with five promoted inputs of five distinct types interleaved with connection-only inputs, plus a type-conformance assertion, the external-link-still-consumes-its-slot case, and the fail-closed case. All five fail on the previous implementation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@comfy_cli/workflow_to_api.py`:
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Thanks — this was exactly the right call, and the differential is what made it findable. Pushed a rework in a47806c. You're right that it's broken. The diagnosis is off by one stepIt isn't that def-input order is the wrong order. The order is right; the set of def inputs that count as promoted was wrong. Promotion was decided from an allowlist of def-input types — Embarrassingly, this module already has a careful widget classifier — The ruleA def input is promoted exactly when the interior input it feeds is itself widget-backed — which the serialized graph already marks with a Measured over every subgraph instance in the corpus:
Length agreement isn't sufficient — your DifferentialSame method as yours, 499 templates, real
Back to main's baseline. Those 8 are the pre-existing All 12 changed templates are corrections: 34 changed values, all 34 traceable to an instance
One caveat I can't close from here: I'm on Fail closedAdded, and it's the answer to the shape I can't see in your corpus: on any count disagreement, injection is skipped entirely and the interior defaults are kept. Wrong but self-consistent and executable, which is the trade you argued for. So the worst case on an unfamiliar shape is "no fix applied", not "prompt string in an INT slot". Tests
All five fail on the previous revision. Your read on why the old four couldn't catch it was correct — with one promoted input every ordering rule agrees. On splitting the precedence flipCan't go second — it's load-bearing for the subgraph fix. With the injection but without the flip, five tests fail: the synthesized primitive loses to the interior node's stale It also isn't unexercised on real data, though your corpus was right that it's nearly invisible. Flip-only changes exactly one template here — Happy to land it first as its own PR and rebase this on top if you'd prefer the smaller review — just not the other way around. Suite
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The fail-closed path discards every value the subgraph instance carries and runs the interior defaults instead. The prompt still converts and still executes, so without a warning the only symptom is a render that quietly ignores what the user set on the instance — the same silent-divergence class this PR set out to fix. Warning matches how the module already reports unrecoverable value misalignment (dynamic-combo selector miss, subgraph expansion cap). Raised in review by CodeRabbit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 2771-2778: Strengthen test_count_disagreement_warns by requiring a
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The assertion relied on caplog.at_level raising the logger threshold to filter a debug-level regression. That works, but the level is the whole point of the test, so check it directly instead of as a side effect — and pin the logger name while we're here. Raised in review by CodeRabbit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Problem
Two related value-resolution bugs in
convert_ui_to_apimade conversion silently diverge from the frontend'sgraphToPrompt:1. Subgraph instance promoted-widget values were dropped. A curated subgraph exposes unlinked widget-type def inputs as instance widgets; the frontend substitutes the instance's
widgets_valuesinto the interior nodes at queue time. The converter never did — interior definition defaults ran instead. Anything edited on the instance (prompt, seed, model names) was silently ignored.This bites every official template built as a curated subgraph. Concrete repro: run any official MiniMax H3 video template through
comfy run --workflowand inspect the executed prompt in/history— the definition's placeholder prompt ("Vaporwave title sequence look…") executes instead of the instance prompt the template actually ships ("Realistic live-action cinematic look…" for t2v; for i2v the instance prompt references the example input image, so the generated clip ignores the image entirely). Found in the wild while reproducing the H3 templates on a local install; execution-history diffs confirmed every subgraph-template render used placeholder values.2. Primitive-fed inputs lost to stale widget residue. Assembly preferred
widget_inputsoverprimitive_inputs, so an input converted-to-input and wired from aPrimitiveNodestill took the consuming node's leftoverwidgets_valuesentry whenever one existed. Frontend semantics: the incoming value wins; the widget slot is residue.Fix
PrimitiveNodeper promoted instance value (onewidgets_valuesentry per widget-type def input, in def order — connection-only types contribute no entry) and wire it to the def input's interior targets vialinkIds. The existing primitive-value machinery injects the value and excludes the virtual node from output, exactly as for user-placed primitives. Def inputs that are externally linked on the instance are skipped (link wins).primitive_inputsbeforewidget_inputs(also in the unknown-order preservation loop). This is what makes both the synthesized and ordinary user-placed primitives override widget residue.Tests
TestSubgraphPromotedWidgets(4 cases): instance value overrides interior default; virtual primitive not emitted; external link beats stale instance widget; missing instance widgets keep interior defaults. Fulltest_workflow_to_api.py(101),test_subgraph_gallery_templates.py+cqlsuites pass;ruff check/formatclean on touched files.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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