Pulp

I think this call should work:

http --json PUT :24817/pulp/api/v3/repositories/cebe653e-f8ca-4b2f-acd0-93c5edf32b48/ name:=\"test_repo\"

The only difference is that for a PUT (which overrides all fields) we don't need to set description to null because it should be overwritten.

openapi-generator creates this method:

    def sanitize_for_serialization(self, obj):
        """Builds a JSON POST object.

        If obj is None, return None.
        If obj is str, int, long, float, bool, return directly.
        If obj is datetime.datetime, datetime.date
            convert to string in iso8601 format.
        If obj is list, sanitize each element in the list.
        If obj is dict, return the dict.
        If obj is OpenAPI model, return the properties dict.

        :param obj: The data to serialize.
        :return: The serialized form of data.
        """
        if obj is None:
            return None
        elif isinstance(obj, self.PRIMITIVE_TYPES):
            return obj
        elif isinstance(obj, list):
            return [self.sanitize_for_serialization(sub_obj)
                    for sub_obj in obj]
        elif isinstance(obj, tuple):
            return tuple(self.sanitize_for_serialization(sub_obj)
                         for sub_obj in obj)
        elif isinstance(obj, (datetime.datetime, datetime.date)):
            return obj.isoformat()

        if isinstance(obj, dict):
            obj_dict = obj
        else:
            # Convert model obj to dict except
            # attributes `openapi_types`, `attribute_map`
            # and attributes which value is not None.
            # Convert attribute name to json key in
            # model definition for request.
            obj_dict = {obj.attribute_map[attr]: getattr(obj, attr)
                        for attr, _ in six.iteritems(obj.openapi_types)
                        if getattr(obj, attr) is not None}

        return {key: self.sanitize_for_serialization(val)
                for key, val in six.iteritems(obj_dict)}

which is called just before the API call.

On line 29 from here: https://pulp.plan.io/attachments/518581
it sends a repository object, which is treated on sanitize_for_serialization, removing all the attrs with null value.
If we replace line 29 for this:

repositories_api.update(repo_href, {"name": repository.name, "description": repository.description})

it will work as expected