[JAVA] beta3 adds springfox import in spring generator

Description

I have upgraded from beta2 to beta3 and the java spring code generated from the api yaml file contains the import:

springfox.documentation.annotations.ApiIgnore

but the compiler fails on this import.

openapi-generator version

beta3, was working in beta2

OpenAPI declaration file content or url

paths:
  /endpoint:
    post:
      summary: Whatever
      tags:
        - endpoint
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Whatever'
      responses:
        "201":
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Something'
        "400":
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        "404":
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        "500":
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'

Command line used for generation

mvn clean generate-sources

<plugin>
				<groupId>org.openapitools</groupId>
				<artifactId>openapi-generator-maven-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>${version.plugin.openapi.generator}</version>
				<configuration>
					<generateModels>true</generateModels>
					<generateApi>true</generateApi>
					<generateSupportingFiles>true</generateSupportingFiles>
					<generateAliasAsModel>true</generateAliasAsModel>
					<generatorName>spring</generatorName>
					<generateApiDocumentation>true</generateApiDocumentation>
					<generateModelDocumentation>true</generateModelDocumentation>
					<generateApiTests>true</generateApiTests>
					<configOptions>
						<interfaceOnly>true</interfaceOnly>
						<serializableModel>true</serializableModel>
						<dateLibrary>java8</dateLibrary>
						<library>spring-boot</library>
						<ensureUniqueParams>false</ensureUniqueParams>
						<useBeanValidation>true</useBeanValidation>
					</configOptions>
					<!-- enable configHelp to see all the available configOptions -->
				</configuration>
				<executions>
					<execution>
						<id>generate-model</id>
						<goals>
							<goal>generate</goal>
						</goals>
						<configuration>
							<modelPackage>whatever.api.model</modelPackage>
							<apiPackage>whatever.api.model</apiPackage>
							<invokerPackage>whatever.api.model</invokerPackage>
							<inputSpec>${project.build.resources[0].directory}/api/whatever.yaml</inputSpec>
						</configuration>
					</execution>
				</executions>
			</plugin>

[sdoeringNew]

I’m getting sick of it. With every new version of the generator there is new stuff that’s gonna be imported and can’t be disabled.

The openapi-generator is a mature library and can’t add those things randomly. Backwards compability shall be the main goal on every change.

Here it is doubly bad because who’s using SpringFox after all the years of stagnation? It took them years to release their version 3. I think springdoc-openapi is the current way to go. But the openapi-generator only supports SpringFox without chance of disabling it or changing it to springdoc-openapi.

The apiFirst configuration only works heartlessly if delegatePattern is activated. Then the delegates are missing.

[CGavrila]

The problem seems to be coming from here: https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator/blob/c974c512ff590c797db9f3e93c079017d65d3dcd/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/SpringCodegen.java#L456

There are a few way around it: use apiFirst=true, reactive=true or add the Springfox dependency to your pom.xml. They might work for you, but they are not enough for my usecase.

Later edit: the Springfox dependency I was referring to should be io.springfox:springfox-swagger2:3.0.0