Gemini constrained JSON needs responseMimeType and responseSchema set together
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Structured output is configured inside generationConfig, not at the top level. Setting responseMimeType to application/json makes the model emit JSON; adding responseSchema constrains it to a specific shape. Setting the schema without the mime type does not reliably constrain anything, and setting the mime type alone gives you the same class of problem as OpenAI JSON mode, valid JSON with unpredictable fields.
The schema is an OpenAPI subset. Property ordering in the schema influences the generated key order, and the subset does not accept every JSON Schema keyword, so schemas generated from application types often need trimming.
Structured output and function calling constrain the same decoding path, so combining them behaves differently from using either alone. Pick one for a given request, and when the goal is only to get a typed object back, prefer the response schema over declaring a single fake tool.
Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/structured-output
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