OpenAPITools / OpenAPITools/openapi-generator

[REQ] [C] C client improvements

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Enhancement: Feature
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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Describe the solution you'd like

  • printing should be removed from the C-libcurl generator. the user of the library should be able to decide when and what to print.
  • error handling should be improved. when curl_easy_perform returns something other than CURLE_OK, the caller should be provided some way to retrieve error information from the api call. currently, an empty structure is returned and caller has no way to know an error occurred (besides the printed message). for example, the error could be placed into the api client structure, like the response code is.

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Research direction

Start by reading the C-libcurl templates at api-body.mustache around line 330 and apiClient.c.mustache around line 546, then inspect how curl_easy_perform errors are handled. Done means generated clients no longer print response or error messages and callers can retrieve information when curl_easy_perform fails.

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Assessment

Tech stack
c
Domain
api, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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