Generating code from the specification
In order to generate code from a specification, the application needs to be prepared for it. In this section, you will configure a plugin and generate code from what we have specified in the specification file.
The following XML fragment configures openapi-generator-maven-plugin for our Maven project, specifically designed to generate Spring-based Java code from the OpenAPI specification defined in the previous section. This plugin facilitates the automatic creation of API endpoints, models, and configuration classes.
We are going to configure the plugin in the pom.xml file inside our project. You can refer to the GitHub repository to see the full file, but here we will focus on the specific changes to accomplish our goals. Let us look at this configuration now:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.openapitools</groupId>
<artifactId>openapi-generator-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>7.5.0</version...
