This is the next gen (v4) of AutoRest Java generator. It's built on AutoRest v3, written in Java, and supports OpenAPI3. It generates clients that work with com.azure:azure-core
.
You need to have the following installed on your machine:
- Node.JS v12+
- Java 11+
- Maven 3
You need to have autorest installed through NPM:
npm install -g autorest
To use the latest released preview(https://github.com/Azure/autorest.java/releases), run
autorest --java
--use:@autorest/java@4.x.x
--input-file:path/to/specs.json
--output-folder:where/to/generate/java/files
--namespace:specified.java.package
The first time running it will take a little longer to download and install all the components.
To build from source code, clone this repo and checkout to main branch. Make sure all prerequisites are met, and run
mvn package -P local
This will build a file javagen-jar-with-dependencies.jar
under javagen
module, a preprocess-jar-with-dependencies.jar
under preprocessor
module, a fluentgen-jar-with-dependencies.jar
under fluentgen
module, and a fluentnamer-jar-with-dependencies.jar
under fluentnamer
module.
And then run AutoRest
autorest --java
--use:where/this/repo/is/cloned/autorest.java
--input-file:path/to/specs.json
--output-folder:where/to/generate/java/files
--namespace:specified.java.package
Java files will be generated under where/to/generate/java/files/src/main/java/specified/java/package
.
To debug, add --java.debugger
to the argument list. The JVM will suspend at the beginning of the execution. Then attach a remote debugger in your IDE to localhost:5005
. Make sure you detach the debugger before killing the AutoRest process. Otherwise it will fail to shutdown the JVM and leave it orphaned. (which can be killed in the Task Manager)
-
use-default-http-status-code-to-exception-type-mapping: true
, use subclass ofHttpResponseException
defined in azure-core, when service returns unexpected status code. -
generic-response-type: true
, useResponseBase<>
, instead a subclass ofResponseBase<>
, for response with HTTP headers. Performance and reflective access improvement. -
no-custom-headers: true
, generates overloads of interface methods that exclude typed headers. Performance improvement by removing the need to convert header strings to Java types. -
required-fields-as-ctor-args
, create a constructor taking required properties, for model classes. The correctness of this constructor highly depends on the correctness of Swagger. -
output-model-immutable: true
, make model classes immutable, if model is used only in response. -
enable-sync-stack: true
, let sync method invoke sync RestProxy method. -
enable-page-size: true
, letmaxpagesize
query parameter be supplied viabyPage
API inPagedFlux
orPagedIterable
. -
use-key-credential: true
, useKeyCredential
in builder for API key. -
generate-client-as-impl: true
, generate Client in implementation package, for customization. -
models-subpackage: implementation.models
, generate model classes in implementation package. -
custom-types-subpackage: models
, generate selected model classes in models package.
Settings can be provided on the command line through --name:value
or in a README file through name: value
. The list of settings for AutoRest in general can be found at https://github.com/Azure/autorest/blob/main/docs/user/command-line-interface.md. The list of settings for AutoRest.Java specifically are listed below:
Option  | Description |
---|---|
--client-side-validations |
Generate validations for required parameters and required model properties. Default is false. |
--generate-client-as-impl |
Append "Impl" to the names of service clients and method groups and place them in the implementation sub-package. Default is false. |
--generate-client-interfaces |
Implies --generate-client-as-impl and generates interfaces for all the "Impl"s. Default is false. |
--generate-sync-async-clients |
Implies --generate-client-as-impl and generates sync and async convenience layer clients for all the "Impl"s. Default is false. |
--generate-builder-per-client |
Requires --generate-sync-async-clients , and generates one ClientBuilder for each Client. Default is false. |
--implementation-subpackage=STRING |
The sub-package that the Service client and Method Group client implementation classes will be put into. Default is implementation . |
--models-subpackage=STRING |
The sub-package that Enums, Exceptions, and Model types will be put into. Default is models . |
--sync-methods=all|essential|none |
Specifies mode for generating sync wrappers. Supported value are   essential - generates only one sync returning body or header (default)   all - generates one sync method for each async method  none - does not generate any sync methods |
--required-parameter-client-methods |
Indicates whether client method overloads with only required parameters should be generated. Default is false. |
--custom-types=COMMA,SEPARATED,STRINGS |
Specifies a list of files to put in the package specified in --custom-types-subpackage . |
--custom-types-subpackage=STRING |
The sub-package that the custom types should be generated in. The types that custom types reference, or inherit from will also be automatically moved to this sub-package. Recommended usage: You can set this value to models and set --models-subpackage=implementation.models to generate models to implementation.models by default and pick specific models to be public through --custom-types= . |
--client-type-prefix=STRING |
The prefix that will be added to each generated client type. |
--service-interface-as-public |
Indicates whether to generate service interfaces as public. This resolves SecurityManager issues to prevent reflectively access non-public APIs. Default is true. |
--client-flattened-annotation-target=TYPE,FIELD,NONE,DISABLED |
Indicates the target of @JsonFlatten annotation for x-ms-client-flatten . Default is TYPE . |
--disable-client-builder |
Indicates whether to disable generating the ClientBuilder class. This is for SDK that already contains a hand-written ClientBuilder class. Default is false. |
--polling |
Configures how to generate long running operations. See Polling Configuration to see more details on how to use this flag. |
--service-name |
Service name used in Client class and other documentations. If not provided, service name is deduced from title configure (from swagger or readme). |
--partial-update |
Indicates whether to support partial update for Client /AsyncClient classes and ClientBuilder class. |
--default-http-exception-type |
The fully-qualified class name that should be used as the default HTTP exception type. The class must extend from HttpResponseException . |
--use-default-http-status-code-to-exception-type-mapping |
Indicates whether a default HTTP status code to exception mapping should be used if one isn't provided. |
--http-status-code-to-exception-type-mapping |
The HTTP status code to exception mapping that should be used. All exception types must be fully-qualified and extend from HttpResponseException . |
--generic-response-type |
Indicates that generic response types are used instead of named response types that extend the generic type. |
--no-custom-headers |
Indicates that overloads of interface methods that exclude typed headers are generated. |
--enable-sync-stack |
Indicates that sync method invokes sync RestProxy method. By default, sync method invokes async RestProxy method. |
--required-fields-as-ctor-args |
Indicates that class models have constructor taking required properties. |
--output-model-immutable |
Indicates that output-only models be generated as immutable, and without public constructor. |
--use-input-stream-for-binary |
Indicates that InputStream is used for binary response body. By default, BinaryData is used. |
--enable-page-size |
Indicates that maxpagesize query parameter be supplied via byPage API in PagedFlux or PagedIterable , instead of via client method parameter. |
--use-key-credential |
Indicates that builder uses KeyCredential for API key. |
--graal-vm-config |
Generates GraalVM config under resources/META-INF/native-image . |
data-plane
option enables the generator to generate code for minimal data-plane clients.
data-plane
option will change the default value for some vanilla options.
For example, generate-client-interfaces
, generate-client-as-impl
, generate-sync-async-clients
, generate-builder-per-client
, enable-sync-stack
, required-fields-as-ctor-args
option is by default true
.
polling
is by default enabled as default settings globally (polling={}
).
sdk-integration
option can be used for integrating to azure-sdk-for-java.
generate-samples
option can be used for generating samples for client.
generate-tests
option can be used for generating tests for client.
See documentation for frequently used options, and their effect on generated clients.
fluent
option enables the generator extension for Azure Management Libraries for Java.
Following settings only works when fluent
option is specified.
Option | Description |
---|---|
--fluent |
Enum. LITE for Fluent Lite; PREMIUM for Fluent Premium. Case insensitive. Default is PREMIUM if provided as other values. |
--fluent-subpackage |
String. The sub-package that vanilla client and builder will be put into. Default is fluent . |
--pom-file |
String. Name for Maven POM file. Default is pom.xml . |
--package-version |
String. Version number for Maven artifact. Default is 1.0.0-beta.1 . |
--service-name |
String. Service name used in Manager class and other documentations. If not provided, service name is deduced from title configure (from swagger or readme). |
--sdk-integration |
Boolean. Integrate to azure-sdk-for-java. Default is false . Provide output-folder as absolute path for best performance. |
--generate-samples |
Boolean. Generate samples from x-ms-examples in swagger. Default is false . |
--add-inner |
CSV. Treat as inner class (move to fluent.models namespace, append Inner to class name). |
--remove-inner |
CSV. Exclude from inner classes. |
--rename-model |
CSV. Rename classes. Each item is of pattern from:to . |
--remove-model |
CSV. Remove classes. |
--preserve-model |
CSV. Preserve classes from clean-up. |
--remove-operation-group |
CSV. Remove operation groups. |
--name-for-ungrouped-operations |
String. Name for ungrouped operation group. Default to ResourceProviders for Lite. |
--resource-collection-associations |
Array. Prioritized association from resource model to resource collection. |
fluent
option will change the default value for some vanilla options.
For example, generate-client-interfaces
, required-parameter-client-methods
option is by default true
.
The code formatter would require Java 11+ runtime.
Polling configurations can be set through --polling
setting globally or for each operation. The format is a key value map specified below:
polling:
{operationId}:
strategy: {strategy}
sync-strategy: {sync-strategy}
intermediate-type: {intermediate-type}
final-type: {final-type}
poll-interval: {poll-interval}
With the fields specified below:
Field | Type | Required | Description | Example |
---|---|---|---|---|
operationId | String | true | The operationId of the operation. For global polling configuration, use default . Case insensitive. |
Pets_put |
strategy | String | false | The invocation to construct a polling strategy. Use fully qualified class name if outside the implementation subpackage specified in namespace & implementation-subpackage . Use dynamic literals {httpPipeline} , {context} , {serializerAdapter} , {endpoint} , {serviceVersion} , {intermediate-type} , {final-type} if these components are required to construct the polling strategy. Default is new DefaultPollingStrategy<>(new PollingStrategyOptions({httpPipeline}).setEndpoint({endpoint}).setContext({context}).setServiceVersion({serviceVersion})) . |
new com.azure.core.util.polling.OperationResourcePollingStrategy<>({httpPipeline}, {context}) |
sync-stragety | String | false | Similar to stragety . It refers to the synchronous operation resource polling strategy. |
|
intermediate-type | String | false | The type of the polling intermediate type. Use fully qualified class name if outside the base package specified in namespace . Default is the return type specified on the operation in Swagger, or BinaryData if the operation returns void . |
PollResult ,com.azure.core.util.BinaryData |
final-type | String | false | The type of the final result type. Use fully qualified class name if outside the base package specified in namespace . Default is the return type specified on the operation in Swagger, or BinaryData if the operation returns void . |
Pet ,com.azure.core.util.BinaryData |
poll-interval | integer | false | The default interval in seconds to poll with (can be modified by users in PollerFlux and SyncPoller . Default is 1. |
30 |
To use default settings globally, use --polling={}
.
By default, Swagger definitions will contain an exception type to be thrown when any error HTTP status code is seen. Swaggers
may also define the error HTTP status code to exception type mapping, but isn't always the case. Or, it may be needed to change
the default exception type to a custom type. In these cases it is possible to configure the error HTTP status code to exception
type handling by using the configurations --default-http-exception-type
, --use-default-http-status-code-to-exception-type-mapping
,
and --http-status-code-to-exception-type-mapping
.
NOTE: Using the configurations on an already shipped library will likely result in runtime breaking changes as most
libraries are already using a sub-class type of HttpResponseException
and changing sub-types is a breaking change.
The default exception type is used for all error HTTP response status codes that do not have an explicit exception type
configured. Generally, there is no error HTTP response status code to exception type mapping, so this will become your
general exception type. The following is an example of configuring com.azure.core.exception.HttpResponseException
as
the default exception type:
autorest --default-http-exception-type=com.azure.core.exception.HttpResponseException
or in the Swagger README configuration:
default-http-exception-type: com.azure.core.exception.HttpResponseException
If this configuration isn't used the default exception type will be based on the Swagger definition.
The default error HTTP status code to exception type map is the following:
Status Code | Exception Type |
---|---|
401 | com.azure.core.exception.ClientAuthenticationException |
404 | com.azure.core.exception.ResourceNotFoundException |
409 | com.azure.core.exception.ResourceModifiedException |
By default, this mapping isn't used, to use it pass the --use-default-http-status-code-to-exception-type-mapping
to
the generator or in the Swagger README configuration:
use-default-http-status-code-to-exception-type-mapping: true
If you need to have a custom mapping it is possible to do so by using --http-status-code-to-exception-type-mapping
.
This requires additional configuration in the Swagger README definition as it is a mapping of HTTP status code to
exception. The following is an example:
http-status-code-to-exception-type-mapping:
404: com.azure.core.exception.ResourceNotFoundException
412: com.azure.core.exception.ResourceExistsException
The HTTP status code to exception type handling configurations can be used together to offer a nice baseline default with additional customizations as need. For example, if you wanted to configure the default exception type, use most of the default error HTTP status code to exception type, and customize one error HTTP status code exception type the following configurations can be used.
default-http-exception-type: com.azure.core.exception.HttpResponseException
use-default-http-status-code-to-exception-type-mapping: true
http-status-code-to-exception-type-mapping:
404: com.azure.core.exception.ResourceExistsException
This results in the following error HTTP response to exception type mapping:
Status Code | Exception Type |
---|---|
401 | com.azure.core.exception.ClientAuthenticationException |
404 | com.azure.core.exception.ResourceExistsException |
409 | com.azure.core.exception.ResourceModifiedException |
* | com.azure.core.exception.HttpResponseException |
Notices how 404 changes from the default com.azure.core.exception.ResourceNotFoundException
to
com.azure.core.exception.ResourceExistsException
.
You can generate the output as minimal data-plane clients with --data-plane
flag.
The models will not be generated and the methods in the clients will be generated as protocol methods.
The generated code has the following structure:
- pom.xml
- /src/main/java
|
- module-info.java
- /com/azure/<group>/<service>
|
- <Service>Builder.java
- <Service>Client.java
- <Service>AsyncClient.java
- /implementation
|
- <Service>ClientImpl.java
and requires latest azure-core
as a dependency.
For guidance on using the post-code generation customization framework see its documentation.
This contains the base classes and utilities for creating an AutoRest extension in Java. It handles the JSON RPC communications with AutoRest core, provides JSON and YAML parsers, and provides the POJO models for the code model output from modelerfour.
Extend from NewPlugin.java
class if you are writing a new extension in Java.
This contains the actual generator extension, including mappers that maps a code model to a Java client model, and templates that writes the Java client models into .java files.
This contains the generator extension for Azure Management Libraries.
This contains the generated classes from the test swaggers in src/main
. The code here should always be kept up-to-date with the output of the generator in javagen
.
This also contains test code for these generated code under src/test
. Running the tests will hit the test server running locally (see https://github.com/Azure/autorest.testserver for instructions) and verify the correctness of the generated code.
This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.microsoft.com.
When you submit a pull request, a CLA-bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., label, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.
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- Please don't edit this section unless you're re-configuring how the Java extension plugs in to AutoRest AutoRest needs the below config to pick this up as a plug-in - see https://github.com/Azure/autorest/blob/main/docs/developer/architecture/AutoRest-extension.md
use: $(this-folder)/javagen
use: $(this-folder)/fluentgen
use: $(this-folder)/javagen
help-content:
java:
activationScope: java
categoryFriendlyName: Java Generator
settings:
- key: client-side-validations
type: bool
description: Generate validations for required parameters and required model properties. Default is false.
- key: generate-client-as-impl
type: bool
description: Append "Impl" to the names of service clients and method groups and place them in the `implementation` sub-package. Default is false.
- key: generate-client-interfaces
type: bool
description: Implies `--generate-client-as-impl` and generates interfaces for all the "Impl"s. Default is false.
- key: generate-sync-async-clients
type: bool
description: Implies `--generate-client-as-impl` and generates sync and async convenience layer clients for all the "Impl"s. Default is false.
- key: generate-builder-per-client
type: bool
description: Requires `--generate-sync-async-clients`, and generates one ClientBuilder for each Client. Default is false.
- key: implementation-subpackage=STRING
type: string
description: The sub-package that the Service client and Method Group client implementation classes will be put into. Default is `implementation`.
- key: models-subpackage=STRING
type: string
description: The sub-package that Enums, Exceptions, and Model types will be put into. Default is `models`.
- key: sync-methods
type: string
description: \[all|essential|none] Specifies mode for generating sync wrappers. Supported value are <br> `essential` - generates only one sync returning body or header (default) <br> `all` - generates one sync method for each async method<br> `none` - does not generate any sync methods
- key: required-parameter-client-methods
type: bool
description: Indicates whether client method overloads with only required parameters should be generated. Default is false.
- key: custom-types
type: string
description: \[COMMA,SEPARATED,STRINGS] Specifies a list of files to put in the package specified in `--custom-types-subpackage`.
- key: custom-types-subpackage
type: string
description: The sub-package that the custom types should be generated in. The types that custom types reference, or inherit from will also be automatically moved to this sub-package. **Recommended usage** You can set this value to `models` and set `--models-subpackage=implementation.models`to generate models to `implementation.models` by default and pick specific models to be public through `--custom-types=`.
- key: client-type-prefix
type: string
description: The prefix that will be added to each generated client type.
- key: client-flattened-annotation-target
type: string
description: \[TYPE,FIELD,NONE,DISABLED] Indicates the target of `@JsonFlatten` annotation for `x-ms-client-flatten`. Default is `TYPE`.
- key: disable-client-builder
type: bool
description: Indicates whether to disable generating the `ClientBuilder` class. This is for SDK that already contains a hand-written `ClientBuilder` class. Default is false.
- key: polling
type: string
description: Configures how to generate long running operations. See [Polling Configuration](https://github.com/Azure/autorest.java#polling-configuration) to see more details on how to use this flag.
- key: service-name
type: string
description: Service name used in Client class and other documentations. If not provided, service name is deduced from `title` configure (from swagger or readme).
- key: partial-update
type: bool
description: Indicates whether to support partial update for `Client`/`AsyncClient` classes and `ClientBuilder` class. Default is false.
- key: enable-sync-stack
type: bool
description: Indicates that sync method invokes sync RestProxy method. By default, sync method invokes async RestProxy method.
- key: required-fields-as-ctor-args
type: bool
description: Indicates that class models have constructor taking required properties.
- key: output-model-immutable
type: bool
description: Indicates that output-only models be generated as immutable, and without public constructor. Default is false.
- key: data-plane
type: bool
description: Indicates whether to generate code for minimal clients. Default is false.
javafluent:
activationScope: fluent
categoryFriendlyName: Java fluent Generator
settings:
- key: fluent
type: string
description: Enum. `LITE` for Fluent Lite; `PREMIUM` for Fluent Premium. Case insensitive. Default is `PREMIUM` if provided as other values.
- key: fluent-subpackage
type: string
description: String. The sub-package that vanilla client and builder will be put into. Default is `fluent`.
- key: pom-file
type: string
description: String. Name for Maven POM file. Default is `pom.xml`.
- key: package-version
type: string
description: String. Version number for Maven artifact. Default is `1.0.0-beta.1`.
- key: service-name
type: string
description: String. Service name used in Manager class and other documentations. If not provided, service name is deduced from `title` configure (from swagger or readme).
- key: sdk-integration
type: bool
description: Boolean. Integrate to [azure-sdk-for-java](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-java/). Default is `false`. Provide `output-folder` as absolute path for best performance.
- key: generate-samples
type: bool
description: Boolean. Generate samples from `x-ms-examples` in swagger. Default is `false`.
- key: add-inner
type: string
description: CSV. Treat as inner class (move to `fluent.models` namespace, append `Inner` to class name).
- key: remove-inner
type: string
description: CSV. Exclude from inner classes.
- key: rename-model
type: string
description: CSV. Rename classes. Each item is of pattern `from:to`.
- key: remove-model
type: string
description: CSV. Remove classes.
- key: preserve-model
type: string
description: CSV. Preserve classes from clean-up.
- key: remove-operation-group
type: string
description: CSV. Remove operation groups.
- key: name-for-ungrouped-operations
type: string
description: String. Name for ungrouped operation group. Default to `ResourceProviders` for Lite.