jobDSL requires even empty options - bloats jobDSL

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Jenkins and plugins versions report

Environment

Jenkins: 2.387.1
OS: Linux - 5.14.0-162.18.1.el9_1.x86_64
Java: 11.0.18 - Eclipse Adoptium (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM)
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What Operating System are you using (both controller, and any agents involved in the problem)?

Controller and Agent Rocky 9.1

Reproduction steps

1. create a job via jobDSL and use an extendedChoice parameter
2. use only the needed options
3. seed job fails with log output

ERROR: (unknown source) the following options are required and must be specified: propertyFile, groovyScript, groovyScriptFile, bindings, groovyClasspath, propertyKey, defaultPropertyFile, defaultGroovyScript, defaultGroovyScriptFile, defaultBindings, defaultGroovyClasspath, defaultPropertyKey, descriptionPropertyValue, descriptionPropertyFile, descriptionGroovyScript, descriptionGroovyScriptFile, descriptionBindings, descriptionGroovyClasspath, descriptionPropertyKey, javascriptFile, javascript, saveJSONParameterToFile, quoteValue
Finished: FAILURE

Expected Results

freeStyleJob('abcd') {
description('a description')
parameters {
extendedChoice {
name('TARGET')
description('a parm description')
type('Multi Select')
visibleItemCount(21)
multiSelectDelimiter(',')
value('option 1,option 2')
defaultValue('option 1,option 2')
}
}
...
}

Actual Results

freeStyleJob('abcd') {
description('a description')
parameters {
extendedChoice {
name('TARGET')
description('a parm description')
type('Multi Select')
visibleItemCount(21)
multiSelectDelimiter(',')
value('option 1,option 2')
defaultValue('option 1,option 2')
// options still required
projectName('')
propertyFile('')
groovyScript('')
groovyScriptFile('')
bindings('')
groovyClasspath('')
propertyKey('')
defaultPropertyFile('')
defaultGroovyScript('')
defaultGroovyScriptFile('')
defaultBindings('')
defaultGroovyClasspath('')
defaultPropertyKey('')
descriptionPropertyValue('')
descriptionPropertyFile('')
descriptionGroovyScript('')
descriptionGroovyScriptFile('')
descriptionBindings('')
descriptionGroovyClasspath('')
descriptionPropertyKey('')
javascriptFile('')
javascript('')
saveJSONParameterToFile(false)
quoteValue(false)
}
}
...
}

Anything else?

Using the wonderful jobDSL approach I would love to get a better support from plugin projects.

Spilling the jobDSL with not needed options could not be the preferred solution, I think.

Would be glad I can remove all useless options from my jobDSL so it is reduced to the really needed options only.

BTW, the documentation of type is not precise enough. In the jobDSL type('PT_MULTI_SELECT') is correct, but that is not clear from the docs.