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Investigate alternatives to the current OpenAPI client generator

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
openapi, python
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reading issue #205 and PR #210 to understand the current OpenAPI client and its known usability problems. Evaluate Python OpenAPI client generators against the stated object-oriented API, error handling, and maintainability goals. Done means documenting the alternatives and a justified recommendation.

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Description

This is follow up of issue #205 / PR #210

Current OpenAPI client is cumbersome to use (not OO, awkward structure, returns unions instead of throwing exceptions).
Explore and evaluate alternative Python OpenAPI client generators for a more maintainable and user-friendly API client.

Dominant language
Python
Stars
1
Forks
1
Avg merge
1d 32m
Merged PRs (30d)
18

Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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