response-property-min-items-unset

Response property min items unset.

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Breaking change (level: error)

It drops a guarantee the response used to make, so a client that relied on it can receive an unexpected value.

How to handle this change

When oasdiff flags response-property-min-items-unset, you have a few ways to respond:

  • Find a backward-compatible alternative. Redesign the change so clients that followed the old contract keep working, and agree on the approach with whoever introduced it.
  • Release it in a new API version. Keep the current contract and introduce the change in a new version, then deprecate the old one with a sunset date so clients have time to migrate.
  • Accept it as a deliberate breaking change. Sometimes a breaking change is unavoidable, such as an urgent or security fix. Approve it knowingly, document it in your release notes, and tell affected clients. This should be the exception, not a routine way of working.

If oasdiff's verdict does not match your API's compatibility policy, you can also change how it treats response-property-min-items-unset with a severity-levels file:

Put one rule per line; the level can be err, warn, or info, or none to disable the check entirely:

# severity.txt
response-property-min-items-unset warn

Then pass it to oasdiff:

oasdiff changelog base.yaml revision.yaml --severity-levels severity.txt

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