API began to return the fields if the NULL

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Previously the fields if they null they did not return through the API and my deserealizer worked correctly.

Today I noticed that the fields started to return from NULL. I’m a deserealizer can’t work with NULL when Boolean or Datetime. How it possible
I use Azure version.

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If you host Squidex yourself you probably use a latest tag, which is in general not a good idea.

The behavior has been changed with the recent update because of this issue: How to unset a field with a PATCH request?

Basically the API was clearing null values before saving them. This was causing issues, because it was not possible to change a string or boolean from a value to null and null is a total valid value in many cases.

If you have issues you have to do 2 things:

  1. Make your deserializer work, e.g. by using ´bool?` in C# or with a custom converter.
  2. Set the field to required.
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Thanks for the answer!

I specified the version. This should protect me from updates.
I will change the fields to required. But for me it was a surprise.

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The behavior does not just change, you must have done an update in some way or another.