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[Schema Inaccuracy] alert field of secret scanning alert webhook events have no required fields

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
openapi, typescript
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by locating the secret-scanning-alert-webhook schema component and the webhook-secret-scanning-alert-* webhook descriptions mentioned in the issue. Use the TypeScript example with @octokit/openapi-webhooks-types-ghec to inspect the generated event type; done means the alert properties are required rather than including undefined.

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Description

feature

Schema Inaccuracy

The secret-scanning-alert-webhook schema component, used by the alert field of the webhook-secret-scanning-alert-* webhooks (e.g. webhook-secret-scanning-alert-created, does not have any required fields.

The alert is the subject of the webhook and is never optional. Many of the fields of the alert are primary keys or other required elements, such as number, created_at, updated_at, url, html_url, and many more.

Expected

The alert field of all of the webhook-secret-scanning-alert- webhooks should have required properties.

Reproduction Steps

Discovered by using TypeScript and reviewing the code of the ghec REST API descriptions. Using code, it can be discovered by:

import { webhooks } from '@octokit/openapi-webhooks-types-ghec'

type SecretScanningAlertCreatedEvent = webhooks['secret-scanning-alert-created']['post']['requestBody']['content']['application/json'];

const event: SecretScanningAlertCreatedEvent;
// Review type of event - all fields have a type that includes `| undefined`
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