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Breaking changes

Lets the description and email fields be null on several objectsBreaking changes

What’s new

Allows the description property on Customer, Charge, InvoiceItem, and Recipient objects, and the email property on Customer and Recipient objects, to be set to null by providing empty string values in POST requests.

Impact

Allows setting description and email to null on various objects, providing more flexibility in how you manage data.

Changes

FieldsChangeFrom → to
Customer.descriptionChanged
string → nullable(string)
Charge.descriptionChanged
string → nullable(string)
InvoiceItem.descriptionChanged
string → nullable(string)
Recipient.descriptionChanged
string → nullable(string)
Customer.emailChanged
string → nullable(string)
Recipient.emailChanged
string → nullable(string)

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