What changed
Producer-side tools call this non-breaking. For a consumer it is a null dereference on an unknown future date.
Affects url on BetaWebSearchActionFind reachable from 6 operations. Nothing fails at the call; it fails wherever the value is finally used, which is usually somewhere else entirely.
no longer guaranteed present; can now be null
Who is affected
Code that reads OpenAI's BetaWebSearchActionFind objects, used by 10 OpenAI operations.
Before and after
| Where | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| BetaWebSearchActionFind.url | always present | may be missingno longer guaranteed present |
| BetaWebSearchActionFind.url | string | null|stringcan now be null |
| WebSearchActionFind.url | always present | may be missingno longer guaranteed present |
| WebSearchActionFind.url | string | null|stringcan now be null |
Code that breaks
// response.url may now be absent or null const url = response.url ?? fallback;
Based on OpenAI’s published API specification. How severity is decided.