From 90ca2e9b0f15cc9be7cf298fbefacaa45074cae9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Timothy Jaeryang Baek <tim@openwebui.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:48:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] refac

---
 backend/open_webui/models/models.py  | 17 +++++++++++++++--
 backend/open_webui/routers/models.py | 10 +++++++---
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/open_webui/models/models.py b/backend/open_webui/models/models.py
index 1069d93708..9d2b5819bc 100755
--- a/backend/open_webui/models/models.py
+++ b/backend/open_webui/models/models.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from open_webui.models.users import User, UserModel, Users, UserResponse
 from open_webui.models.access_grants import AccessGrantModel, AccessGrants
 
 
-from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, Field
+from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, Field, model_validator
 
 from sqlalchemy import String, cast, or_, and_, func
 from sqlalchemy.dialects import postgresql, sqlite
@@ -47,7 +47,20 @@ class ModelMeta(BaseModel):
 
     model_config = ConfigDict(extra='allow')
 
-    pass
+    @model_validator(mode='before')
+    @classmethod
+    def normalize_tags(cls, data):
+        if isinstance(data, dict) and 'tags' in data:
+            raw_tags = data['tags']
+            if isinstance(raw_tags, list):
+                normalized = []
+                for tag in raw_tags:
+                    if isinstance(tag, str):
+                        normalized.append({'name': tag})
+                    elif isinstance(tag, dict) and 'name' in tag:
+                        normalized.append(tag)
+                data['tags'] = normalized
+        return data
 
 
 class Model(Base):
diff --git a/backend/open_webui/routers/models.py b/backend/open_webui/routers/models.py
index 21b80e36c2..5a56e11b68 100644
--- a/backend/open_webui/routers/models.py
+++ b/backend/open_webui/routers/models.py
@@ -151,10 +151,14 @@ async def get_model_tags(user=Depends(get_verified_user), db: Session = Depends(
         if model.meta:
             meta = model.meta.model_dump()
             for tag in meta.get('tags', []):
-                tags_set.add((tag.get('name')))
+                try:
+                    name = tag.get('name') if isinstance(tag, dict) else str(tag)
+                    if name:
+                        tags_set.add(name)
+                except Exception:
+                    continue
 
-    tags = [tag for tag in tags_set]
-    tags.sort()
+    tags = sorted(tags_set)
     return tags