---
id: plugins
title: Plugins
---

## Maven

A Maven plugin to support the OpenAPI generator project

### Example

Add to your `build->plugins` section (default phase is `generate-sources` phase)

```xml
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.openapitools</groupId>
    <artifactId>openapi-generator-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <!-- RELEASE_VERSION -->
    <version>6.6.0</version>
    <!-- /RELEASE_VERSION -->
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <goals>
                <goal>generate</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <inputSpec>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/api.yaml</inputSpec>
                <generatorName>java</generatorName>
                <configOptions>
                   <sourceFolder>src/gen/java/main</sourceFolder>
                </configOptions>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>
```

Followed by:

```bash
mvn clean compile
```

For full details of all options, see the [plugin README](https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/tree/master/modules/openapi-generator-maven-plugin).

### Dependencies

The generated models use commonly used Swagger v2 annotations like `@ApiModelProperty`. A user may add Swagger v3 annotations:

```xml
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.swagger.core.v3</groupId>
    <artifactId>swagger-annotations</artifactId>
</dependency>
```

But this will not work. This dependency is not binary compatible with Swagger v2 annotations. The resulting code will fail to compile.

As alternative instead use the following dependency:

```xml
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.swagger.parser.v3</groupId>
    <artifactId>swagger-parser</artifactId>
</dependency>
```

## Gradle

This gradle plugin offers a declarative DSL via extensions (these are Gradle project extensions). These map almost fully 1:1 with the options you’d pass to the CLI or Maven plugin. The plugin maps the extensions to a task of the same name to provide a clean API. If you’re interested in the extension/task mapping concept from a high-level, you can check out [Gradle’s docs](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/custom_plugins.html#sec:mapping_extension_properties_to_task_properties).

To include in your project, add the following to `build.gradle`:

```groovy
buildscript {
  repositories {
    mavenLocal()
    mavenCentral()
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "org.openapitools:openapi-generator-gradle-plugin:6.6.0"
  }
}

apply plugin: 'org.openapi.generator'
```

This gives access to the following tasks:

| Task              | Description                                                                                 |
|-------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| openApiGenerate   | Generate code via Open API Tools Generator for Open API 2.0 or 3.x specification documents. |
| openApiGenerators | Lists generators available via Open API Generators.                                         |
| openApiMeta       | Generates a new generator to be consumed via Open API Generator.                            |
| openApiValidate   | Validates an Open API 2.0 or 3.x specification document.                                    |

> The plugin implements the above tasks as project extensions of the same name. If you’d like to declare these tasks as dependencies to other tasks (using `dependsOn`), you’ll need a task reference. e.g.:
> ```groovy
> compileJava.dependsOn tasks.named("openApiGenerate")
> ```

For full details of all options, see the [plugin README](https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/tree/master/modules/openapi-generator-gradle-plugin).

### Example

An example openApiGenerate task configuration for generating a kotlin client:

```groovy
openApiGenerate {
    generatorName.set("kotlin")
    inputSpec.set("$rootDir/specs/petstore-v3.0.yaml")
    outputDir.set("$buildDir/generated")
    apiPackage.set("org.openapi.example.api")
    invokerPackage.set("org.openapi.example.invoker")
    modelPackage.set("org.openapi.example.model")
    configOptions.set([
        dateLibrary: "java8"
    ])
}
```

*If you want to create separate tasks (for example when you have more than one api spec and require different parameters for each), this is how to do so in Gradle 7+: `tasks.register('taskName', org.openapitools.generator.gradle.plugin.tasks.GenerateTask) { ... }`.*