Inheritance support

[nebulon42]

Quite impressed with the toolset you created here.

I was curious about inheritance support so I tried it out with a minimal example:

openapi: 3.0.2
info:
  title: edit me
  version: 1.0.0
paths:
  /nothing:
    description: dummy
    get:
      responses:
        '200':
          description: empty
          content:
            'application/json':
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChildSchema'
components:
  schemas:
    ParentSchema:
      type: object
      properties:
        parentAttr:
          type: string
    ChildSchema:
      allOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ParentSchema'
        - type: object
          properties:
            childAttr:
              type: string

This yields a ChildSchema.java consisting of everything from the parent and child model:

public class ChildSchema {

    @JsonProperty("parentAttr")
    private String parentAttr;

    @JsonProperty("childAttr")
    private String childAttr;

    public String getParentAttr() {
        return parentAttr;
    }

    public void setParentAttr(String parentAttr) {
        this.parentAttr = parentAttr;
    }

    public String getChildAttr() {
        return childAttr;
    }

    public void setChildAttr(String childAttr) {
        this.childAttr = childAttr;
    }

}

Now specifying a discriminator results in inheritance in the generated code (at least for the openapi-generator project):

openapi: 3.0.2
info:
  title: edit me
  version: 1.0.0
paths:
  /nothing:
    description: dummy
    get:
      responses:
        '200':
          description: empty
          content:
            'application/json':
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ChildSchema'
components:
  schemas:
    ParentSchema:
      type: object
      discriminator:
        propertyName: className
      properties:
        parentAttr:
          type: string
    ChildSchema:
      allOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ParentSchema'
        - type: object
          properties:
            childAttr:
              type: string

For this a special propertyName of className is used. If I run that in your playground with spring 2021.5 it complains about the property name which is not wrong strictly speaking:
The discriminator 'className' is not a property of this schema (code: 134)
If I run this locally with 2023.1.2 then this does not error but does not generate two classes with one inheriting from each other:

public class ChildSchema {

    @JsonProperty("parentAttr")
    private String parentAttr;

    @JsonProperty("childAttr")
    private String childAttr;

    public String getParentAttr() {
        return parentAttr;
    }

    public void setParentAttr(String parentAttr) {
        this.parentAttr = parentAttr;
    }

    public String getChildAttr() {
        return childAttr;
    }

    public void setChildAttr(String childAttr) {
        this.childAttr = childAttr;
    }

}

Expected result would have been:

public class ParentSchema {

    @JsonProperty("parentAttr")
    private String parentAttr;

    public String getParentAttr() {
        return parentAttr;
    }

    public void setParentAttr(String parentAttr) {
        this.parentAttr = parentAttr;
    }

}

public class ChildSchema extends ParentSchema {

    @JsonProperty("childAttr")
    private String childAttr;

    public String getChildAttr() {
        return childAttr;
    }

    public void setChildAttr(String childAttr) {
        this.childAttr = childAttr;
    }

}

Now this expectation could of course be wrong. My question now would be if this inheritance use case is supported and/or if I would have to do something differently to get the desired result. Thanks.

[hauner]

Thanks. :-)

It does not have any inheritance support. So far I didn't need it. I may look at it, but don't expect it anytime soon. There are a few other things on my todo list.