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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Handle \"empty\" default values as null","articleBody":"**Describe the bug**\n\"empty\" default values for optional fields throw an error.  `swagger-parser` explicitly allows these (even though they are technically out-of-spec) by converting them silently to `null`.  So, there exist openapi json in the wild built by swagger tools that pass swagger validation, but throw an error here in openapi-python-client.\n\n**OpenAPI Spec File**\nhttps://www.marinespecies.org/rest/api-docs/openapi.yaml\n\ngrep for:\n\n                    schema:\n                        type: integer\n                        default: \"\"\n\nThere are three endpoints that have this property.  One of which is `AphiaTaxonRanksByID`.  It might be useful to check this endpoint out in the swagger docs [here](https://www.marinespecies.org/rest/).\n\n**Desktop (please complete the following information):**\n - openapi-python-client version 0.28.0\n\n**Additional context**\nI am in contact with the folks at WORMS to try and find out how their openapi.yaml got this way.  Will update here when I get more info.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/csbrown-noaa","@type":"Person","name":"csbrown-noaa"},"datePublished":"2025-12-11T18:07:57.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/1376/openapi-python-client/issues/1376"}