[Schema Inaccuracy] Several fields in `auto_merge` should be nullable

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#5,564 opened on Nov 4, 2025 1 comment 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 2/5
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness: 45/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: openapi
Domain: api

Research direction

Inspect the OpenAPI schema definitions for the auto_merge fields used by the pull-request create and fetch APIs, then compare them with the reproduction response at https://api.github.com/repos/javaparser/javaparser/pulls/4565. Done means the fields that can be null are marked nullable in the relevant schemas and the affected API descriptions remain valid.

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Description

feature

Schema Inaccuracy

Several APIs related to creating/fetching PRs have an auto_merge key which provides information about how auto merge is configured.

Expected

These fields are actually nullable but are not marked as such

Reproduction Steps

https://api.github.com/repos/javaparser/javaparser/pulls/4565

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