diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/Java/libraries/feign/ApiResponseDecoder.mustache b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/Java/libraries/feign/ApiResponseDecoder.mustache
index ef171de9430..2ff7a3243c0 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/Java/libraries/feign/ApiResponseDecoder.mustache
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/resources/Java/libraries/feign/ApiResponseDecoder.mustache
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ public class ApiResponseDecoder extends JacksonDecoder {
     Map<String, Collection<String>> responseHeaders = Collections.unmodifiableMap(response.headers());
         //Detects if the type is an instance of the parameterized class ApiResponse
         Type responseBodyType;
-        if (Types.getRawType(type).isAssignableFrom(ApiResponse.class)) {
+        if (type instanceof ParameterizedType && Types.getRawType(type).isAssignableFrom(ApiResponse.class)) {
             //The ApiResponse class has a single type parameter, the Dto class itself
             responseBodyType = ((ParameterizedType) type).getActualTypeArguments()[0];
             Object body = super.decode(response, responseBodyType);
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ public class ApiResponseDecoder extends JacksonDecoder {
             return super.decode(response, type);
         }
     }
-}
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+}