OpenAPI Generator: 4000 stars on GitHub and spaghetti
summary
OpenAPI Generator is a community fork of Swagger‑Codegen that produces client libraries and server skeletons for about 100 languages and frameworks, with a fast‑growing community (≈4,000 GitHub stars and ~8 PRs per day). The talk describes usable Java clients and compatibility façades provided by the project, but highlights maintenance issues: spaghetti generator code, incomplete tests and frequent regressions, and presents a prototype approach using exhaustive small‑spec test suites to improve stability.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Start
- 6:34A standard
- 8:04An OpenAPI file
- 10:58Other features
- 11:53An ecosystem
- 12:42Our APIs (REST & Webhook)
- 13:46Motivation
- 14:28Code generation
- 16:12Generate code
- 17:27Mono-repo vs Multi-repo
- 18:44Swagger-codegen
- 19:26Contact via Gitter
- 19:48A fork
- 21:16OpenAPI Generator
- 23:44The stars
- 26:19The Spaghettis
- 26:36Architecture
- 29:10Contributors
- 32:17Testing strategy
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