From 66787bcc082872c86f25881ed2a1ee6052ae0f86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: OUNZAR Aymane <aymane.ounzar@imt-atlantique.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:48:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat(api): add rows, columns, and direction fields to page
 layout request model

---
 .../general/MergeMultiplePagesRequest.java    | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/core/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/model/api/general/MergeMultiplePagesRequest.java b/app/core/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/model/api/general/MergeMultiplePagesRequest.java
index e600d585d..d686896b2 100644
--- a/app/core/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/model/api/general/MergeMultiplePagesRequest.java
+++ b/app/core/src/main/java/stirling/software/SPDF/model/api/general/MergeMultiplePagesRequest.java
@@ -15,10 +15,33 @@ public class MergeMultiplePagesRequest extends PDFFile {
             description = "The number of pages to fit onto a single sheet in the output PDF.",
             type = "number",
             defaultValue = "2",
-            requiredMode = Schema.RequiredMode.REQUIRED,
             allowableValues = {"2", "3", "4", "9", "16"})
     private int pagesPerSheet;
 
+    @Schema(
+        description = "The layout direction of content on the page",
+        type = "string",
+        defaultValue = "TOP_DOWN_LEFT_RIGHT",
+        allowableValues = {
+            "TOP_DOWN_LEFT_RIGHT",
+            "TOP_DOWN_RIGHT_LEFT",
+            "BOTTOM_UP_LEFT_RIGHT",
+            "BOTTOM_UP_RIGHT_LEFT"
+        })
+    private String direction;
+
+    @Schema(
+        description = "Number of rows in the page layout",
+        type = "integer",
+        example = "3")
+    private Integer rows;
+
+    @Schema(
+        description = "Number of columns in the page layout",
+        type = "integer",
+        example = "2")
+    private Integer columns;
+
     @Schema(
             description = "The orientation of the output PDF pages",
             type = "string",