What changed
Producer-side tools call this non-breaking. For a consumer it is a null dereference on an unknown future date.
Affects request_type on tls-certificates-and-hostnames_certificates reachable from 3 operations. Nothing fails at the call; it fails wherever the value is finally used, which is usually somewhere else entirely.
no longer guaranteed present
Who is affected
Code that reads Cloudflare's tls-certificates-and-hostnames_certificates objects, used by 3 Cloudflare operations.
Before and after
| Where | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| tls-certificates-and-hostnames_certificates.request_type | always present | may be missing |
Code that breaks
// response.request_type may now be absent or null const request_type = response.request_type ?? fallback;
Based on Cloudflare’s published API specification. How severity is decided.