Building the code · OpenAPI Generator

Using Maven

To build from source, you need the following installed and available in your $PATH:

After cloning the project, you can build it from source with this command:

mvn clean install

If you don't have maven installed, you may directly use the included maven wrapper, and build with the command:

./mvnw clean install

Using Docker

You can use run-in-docker.sh to do all development. This script maps your local repository to /gen in the docker container. It also maps ~/.m2/repository to the appropriate container location.

To execute mvn package:

git clone https://github.com/openapitools/openapi-generator
cd openapi-generator
./run-in-docker.sh mvn package

Build artifacts are now accessible in your working directory.

Once built, run-in-docker.sh will act as an executable for openapi-generator-cli. To generate code, you'll need to output to a directory under /gen (e.g. /gen/out). For example:

./run-in-docker.sh help # Executes 'help' command for openapi-generator-cli
./run-in-docker.sh list # Executes 'list' command for openapi-generator-cli
./run-in-docker.sh /gen/bin/go-petstore.sh  # Builds the Go client
./run-in-docker.sh generate -i modules/openapi-generator/src/test/resources/2_0/petstore.yaml \
    -g go -o /gen/out/go-petstore -DpackageName=petstore # generates go client, outputs locally to ./out/go-petstore

Docker in Vagrant

Prerequisite: install Vagrant and VirtualBox.

git clone https://github.com/openapitools/openapi-generator.git
cd openapi-generator
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
cd /vagrant
./run-in-docker.sh mvn package

Troubleshooting

If an error like this occurs, just execute the mvn clean install -U command:

org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.19.1:test (default-test) on project openapi-generator: A type incompatibility occurred while executing org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.19.1:test: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError cannot be cast to java.io.IOException

./run-in-docker.sh mvn clean install -U

Failed to execute goal org.fortasoft:gradle-maven-plugin:1.0.8:invoke (default) on project openapi-generator-gradle-plugin-mvn-wrapper: org.gradle.tooling.BuildException: Could not execute build using Gradle distribution 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.7-bin.zip'

Right now: no solution for this one :|