What changed
Producer-side tools call this non-breaking. For a consumer it is a null dereference on an unknown future date.
Affects job_title on JobAssignment reachable from 8 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 Square's JobAssignment objects, used by 8 Square operations.
Before and after
| Where | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| JobAssignment.job_title | always present | may be missingno longer guaranteed present |
| JobAssignment.job_title | string | null|stringcan now be null |
Code that breaks
// response.job_title may now be absent or null const job_title = response.job_title ?? fallback;
Based on Square’s published API specification. How severity is decided.