Payment.updated having blank external_details source

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Hi everyone,
We received a payload from payment.updated webhook where the external_details are as follows:

"external_details": {
          "source": "",
          "type": "OTHER"
},

If I understand correctly, on the documentation, source is a required field, so I would’ve expected this to have a value.
One thing I notice that it happened when square_product is “RETAIL”. I’m not sure if that’s connected.
My question is, are there cases where the source field is blank? Or is this a bug?

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Yes, there can be cases where the “source” field in “external_details” is blank. This typically happens when the payment is made through an external entity but the specific source of the payment is not identified. This is not a bug, but rather a feature of the system to accommodate payments from various external sources. The “type” field being set to “OTHER” further indicates that the payment source was not one of the predefined types.

This answer was reviewed by @Bryan-Square.