From 7ea6f3b7d50f0bc1fdb318425bb8c2b731de5bf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vivek Ganesan <caliberoviv@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 21:35:44 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Non mandatory number fields can be set to null

Fixes Issue https://github.com/rcarz/jira-client/issues/188
---
 src/main/java/net/rcarz/jiraclient/Field.java | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/net/rcarz/jiraclient/Field.java b/src/main/java/net/rcarz/jiraclient/Field.java
index 0101914..c33921a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/rcarz/jiraclient/Field.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/rcarz/jiraclient/Field.java
@@ -726,7 +726,9 @@ public final class Field {
             else if (value instanceof TimeTracking)
                 return ((TimeTracking) value).toJsonObject();
         } else if (m.type.equals("number")) {
-            if(!(value instanceof java.lang.Integer) && !(value instanceof java.lang.Double) && !(value 
+            if (value == null) //Non mandatory number fields can be set to null
+                return JSONNull.getInstance(); 
+            else if(!(value instanceof java.lang.Integer) && !(value instanceof java.lang.Double) && !(value 
                     instanceof java.lang.Float) && !(value instanceof java.lang.Long) )
             {
                 throw new JiraException("Field '" + name + "' expects a Numeric value");

From 1519116d1f92e01088d0ae1dd7a3cefdd992a235 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vivek Ganesan <caliberoviv@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 21:38:16 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Added my name to authors

---
 AUTHORS.md | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/AUTHORS.md b/AUTHORS.md
index 9889076..e982228 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.md
+++ b/AUTHORS.md
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
 * Anders Kreinøe <anders@kreinoee.dk> @Kreinoee
 * Andrey Kuzmin <agkoozmin@gmail.com> @nach-o-man
 * Pierre-Luc Dupont <pldupont@gmail.com> @pldupont
+* Vivek Ganesan <vivek@vivekganesan.com> @vivganes