Jira REST API Get Fields does not distinguish between some field types

[Amir Katz (Outseer)]

I'm using the above REST API (GET /rest/api/3/field) to get all fields with their types.

See here: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v3/api-group-issue-fields/#api-rest-api-3-field-get

When I examine the resulting JSON, each custom fields has the dict entry some_entry['schema']['type'],

the value being the field type.

There are two problems:

1. Both radio buttons and checkbox return the same value, ':radiobuttons' 

2. All selections (single, multi and cascade) return the same value, ':select'

Any idea how to make this distinction?