From af7f5048390deb9cccb30bd4b90643f5c77db3ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kirill Logachev <kirl@google.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2026 01:47:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(bigquery): update internal Field.mode type to enum
 instead of string

---
 .../src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/Field.java | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/Field.java b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/Field.java
index 88e09c5c4817..e1e37a1d5a10 100644
--- a/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/Field.java
+++ b/java-bigquery/google-cloud-bigquery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/Field.java
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ public TableFieldSchema apply(Field field) {
   private final String name;
   private final LegacySQLTypeName type;
   private final FieldList subFields;
-  private final String mode;
+  private final Mode mode;
   private final String description;
   private final PolicyTags policyTags;
   private final Long maxLength;
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ public static final class Builder {
     private String name;
     private LegacySQLTypeName type;
     private FieldList subFields;
-    private String mode;
+    private Mode mode;
     private String description;
     private PolicyTags policyTags;
     private Long maxLength;
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ public Builder setType(StandardSQLTypeName type, FieldList subFields) {
 
     /** Sets the mode of the field. When not specified {@link Mode#NULLABLE} is used. */
     public Builder setMode(Mode mode) {
-      this.mode = mode != null ? mode.name() : null;
+      this.mode = mode;
       return this;
     }
 
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ public LegacySQLTypeName getType() {
 
   /** Returns the field mode. By default {@link Mode#NULLABLE} is used. */
   public Mode getMode() {
-    return mode != null ? Mode.valueOf(mode) : null;
+    return mode;
   }
 
   /** Returns the field description. */
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ TableFieldSchema toPb() {
     fieldSchemaPb.setName(name);
     fieldSchemaPb.setType(type.name());
     if (mode != null) {
-      fieldSchemaPb.setMode(mode);
+      fieldSchemaPb.setMode(mode.name());
     }
     if (description != null) {
       fieldSchemaPb.setDescription(description);