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Ability to control whether or not generated clients "follow redirects"
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
For clients generated by the OpenAPI client generator, we would like the ability to configure whether or not API requests should "follow redirects".
Describe the solution you'd like
Some APIs respond with a redirect. Sometimes, it's the URL that you want to receive as the response - not what the URL points to.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Tracing the code, there is no way to control whether or not redirects are followed.
Additional context
For now, I am primarily trying to just confirm that this is, indeed, not possible with generated clients before we throw in the towel and hand-code these requests.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, generator, client language, or tests. Start by tracing how generated clients handle HTTP redirects, then define done as a configurable choice to follow or return redirects, with tests covering both behaviors.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- openapi
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100