allow multiple types

[alonsopf]

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[festo]

@samlown @alonsopf This is what I was looking for, do we have a timeline for when this will be merged?
I know go is strongly typed but this could be useful when defining nullable fields. Eg OpenAI requires this

Although all fields must be required (and the model will return a value for each parameter), it is possible to emulate an optional parameter by using a union type with null

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs#all-fields-must-be-required

[samlown]

This is a great start! Thanks! I don't think breaking changes should be made however without careful consideration.

Also, the tests have been updated with the new structure, but I don't see any actual tests for the new functionality, specifically the parsing the output of the type arrays. There would need to be full test coverage for this PR to be accepted.

[samlown]

So this is a significant breaking change for anyone using the Type field directly, and as such, I'm not convinced this is the correct approach.

I'm wondering if an alternative approach, given how rare this field is even used, might be to automatically handle a comma or semicolon separated list of types alongside the automatic conversion in the JSON marshalling methods.

A definition would effectively look like:

jsonschema.Schema{
  Type: "string,null",
}

or in a struct:

type Object struct {
  Text string `jsonschema:"type=string,null"`
}

[festo]

For the structure, we could even get it from the property type or the json tag. If it is a pointer or the json tag has the omitempty the null could be added to the jsonchema array