Support fallback key in enum schema specification

[thejeff77]

Hey team,

I wrote up a OAPI schema proposal for fallback enum values.. Since you guys are active and this would be pushed forward by a reference to an existing implementation, what would you think about helping out and supporting this option in fabrikt? Is it even possible?

Thanks for any consideration!

[cjbooms]

What about supporting this as a generation option for ENUMs, with a hard-coded fallback string for all unmapped enums. eg, something like:

"--http-model-opts", "ENABLE_ENUM_FALLBACK"

"--http-model-opts", "FAULT_TOLERANT_ENUMS"

"--fault-tolerant-enum-fallback", "NOT_MAPPED"

"--enum-unknown-fallback", "NOT_MAPPED"

It's worth pointing out that at Zalando, we use x-extensible-enum which should be treated by:

• clients as plain strings
• servers as enums using: "--http-model-opts", "X_EXTENSIBLE_ENUMS"

But I like your solution quite a lot, as it allows clients to benefit from type safe enums, without risking exceptions