Plaese provide more explanation of this issue - e.g. a link to the relevant decsription in the Open API spec, what issues you're facing, ...

@adamchainz Hi, Adam. Here's the problem. Let's say we have this serializer:

class ExampleSerializer(serializers.Serializer):    field_a = serializers.CharField()    field_b = serializers.CharField()

And a ViewSet:

class ExampleViewSet:    serializer_class = ExampleSerializer    def partial_update(self, ...):        pass

Since the request is partial, all the fields are not required. In a request body, we can send:

• Only field_a
• Only field_b
• Both field_a and field_b

And it should work. However, DRF's OpenAPI generated documentation will show that both field_a and field_b are required, even though they're not.

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@adamchainz So what do you think?

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can you please share the relevant part of the spec to verify?

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