Rebuilding Open API connectors when Open API Connector tool is updated

[abeykoon]

Hi @indikasampath2000 / @aneeshafedo ,

I was thinking of a simpler solution for re-building Open API connectors we have. Once we fix a set of bugs or a critical bug or done a critical improvement to the Open API Tool, we will have to trigger this.

In a given particular Open API connector, we will have a script file called build.sh which we will use to build Open API connector. In that script file we will have the real command we used. Examples:

Normal generation

bal openapi -i <openapi-file-path> --mode client

Build with tags

bal openapi -i <openapi-file-path> --mode client --tags “Invoices”,”Products”

Build with option of making all response fields nullable

bal openapi -i <openapi-file-path> --mode client --nullable

What build tool will do is

1. Iterate through all OpenAPI connectors
2. on a condition where we need to trigger the re-generation (i.e OpenAPI spec has x element), execute build.sh

WDYT about the suggestion? In that manner we can keep the information how we generated the connector in the connector project itself.

[aneeshafedo]

If having an additional script file inside a Ballerina connector package is allowed, this would be the easy to implement approach.