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title: Documentation for the go-server Generator
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## METADATA

| Property | Value | Notes |
| -------- | ----- | ----- |
| generator name | go-server | pass this to the generate command after -g |
| generator stability | STABLE | |
| generator type | SERVER | |
| generator language | Go | |
| generator default templating engine | mustache | |
| helpTxt | Generates a Go server library using OpenAPI-Generator. By default, it will also generate service classes -- which you can disable with the `-Dnoservice` environment variable. | |

## CONFIG OPTIONS
These options may be applied as additional-properties (cli) or configOptions (plugins). Refer to [configuration docs](https://openapi-generator.tech/docs/configuration) for more details.

| Option | Description | Values | Default |
| ------ | ----------- | ------ | ------- |
|addResponseHeaders|To include response headers in ImplResponse| |false|
|enumClassPrefix|Prefix enum with class name| |false|
|featureCORS|Enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing middleware| |false|
|hideGenerationTimestamp|Hides the generation timestamp when files are generated.| |true|
|onlyInterfaces|Exclude default service creators from output; only generate interfaces| |false|
|outputAsLibrary|Exclude main.go, go.mod, and Dockerfile from output| |false|
|packageName|Go package name (convention: lowercase).| |openapi|
|packageVersion|Go package version.| |1.0.0|
|router|Specify the router which should be used.|<dl><dt>**mux**</dt><dd>mux</dd><dt>**chi**</dt><dd>chi</dd></dl>|mux|
|serverPort|The network port the generated server binds to| |8080|
|sourceFolder|source folder for generated code| |go|

## IMPORT MAPPING

| Type/Alias | Imports |
| ---------- | ------- |


## INSTANTIATION TYPES

| Type/Alias | Instantiated By |
| ---------- | --------------- |


## LANGUAGE PRIMITIVES

<ul class="column-ul">
<li>bool</li>
<li>byte</li>
<li>complex128</li>
<li>complex64</li>
<li>float32</li>
<li>float64</li>
<li>int</li>
<li>int32</li>
<li>int64</li>
<li>interface{}</li>
<li>map[string]interface{}</li>
<li>rune</li>
<li>string</li>
<li>uint</li>
<li>uint32</li>
<li>uint64</li>
</ul>

## RESERVED WORDS

<ul class="column-ul">
<li>bool</li>
<li>break</li>
<li>byte</li>
<li>case</li>
<li>chan</li>
<li>complex128</li>
<li>complex64</li>
<li>const</li>
<li>continue</li>
<li>default</li>
<li>defer</li>
<li>else</li>
<li>error</li>
<li>fallthrough</li>
<li>float32</li>
<li>float64</li>
<li>for</li>
<li>func</li>
<li>go</li>
<li>goto</li>
<li>if</li>
<li>import</li>
<li>int</li>
<li>int16</li>
<li>int32</li>
<li>int64</li>
<li>int8</li>
<li>interface</li>
<li>map</li>
<li>nil</li>
<li>package</li>
<li>range</li>
<li>return</li>
<li>rune</li>
<li>select</li>
<li>string</li>
<li>struct</li>
<li>switch</li>
<li>type</li>
<li>uint</li>
<li>uint16</li>
<li>uint32</li>
<li>uint64</li>
<li>uint8</li>
<li>uintptr</li>
<li>var</li>
</ul>

## FEATURE SET


### Client Modification Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|BasePath|✗|ToolingExtension
|Authorizations|✗|ToolingExtension
|UserAgent|✗|ToolingExtension
|MockServer|✗|ToolingExtension

### Data Type Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|Custom|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|Int32|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Int64|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Float|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Double|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Decimal|✓|ToolingExtension
|String|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Byte|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Binary|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Boolean|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Date|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|DateTime|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Password|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|File|✓|OAS2
|Uuid|✗|
|Array|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Null|✗|OAS3
|AnyType|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|Object|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Maps|✓|ToolingExtension
|CollectionFormat|✓|OAS2
|CollectionFormatMulti|✓|OAS2
|Enum|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|ArrayOfEnum|✓|ToolingExtension
|ArrayOfModel|✓|ToolingExtension
|ArrayOfCollectionOfPrimitives|✓|ToolingExtension
|ArrayOfCollectionOfModel|✓|ToolingExtension
|ArrayOfCollectionOfEnum|✓|ToolingExtension
|MapOfEnum|✓|ToolingExtension
|MapOfModel|✓|ToolingExtension
|MapOfCollectionOfPrimitives|✓|ToolingExtension
|MapOfCollectionOfModel|✓|ToolingExtension
|MapOfCollectionOfEnum|✓|ToolingExtension

### Documentation Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|Readme|✓|ToolingExtension
|Model|✓|ToolingExtension
|Api|✓|ToolingExtension

### Global Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|Host|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|BasePath|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Info|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Schemes|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|PartialSchemes|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Consumes|✓|OAS2
|Produces|✓|OAS2
|ExternalDocumentation|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Examples|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|XMLStructureDefinitions|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|MultiServer|✗|OAS3
|ParameterizedServer|✗|OAS3
|ParameterStyling|✗|OAS3
|Callbacks|✗|OAS3
|LinkObjects|✗|OAS3

### Parameter Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|Path|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Query|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Header|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Body|✓|OAS2
|FormUnencoded|✓|OAS2
|FormMultipart|✓|OAS2
|Cookie|✗|OAS3

### Schema Support Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|Simple|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Composite|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Polymorphism|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|Union|✗|OAS3
|allOf|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|anyOf|✗|OAS3
|oneOf|✗|OAS3
|not|✗|OAS3

### Security Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|BasicAuth|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|ApiKey|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|OpenIDConnect|✗|OAS3
|BearerToken|✗|OAS3
|OAuth2_Implicit|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|OAuth2_Password|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|OAuth2_ClientCredentials|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|OAuth2_AuthorizationCode|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|SignatureAuth|✗|OAS3
|AWSV4Signature|✗|ToolingExtension

### Wire Format Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|JSON|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|XML|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|PROTOBUF|✗|ToolingExtension
|Custom|✗|OAS2,OAS3