We’re making an API to collect cats. We’ll be using ZIO 2.0, and Caliban

We’re going to explore how we can use a default value for a value class in Sangria.

This builds on the previous blog post about Sangria.

Setting: We serve a GraphQl API using Sangria and Akka HTTP.

We’ll go through the steps necessary to parse value classes.

Normally when using swagger, you generate a swagger.yaml file for your API. But what if you already have a swagger.yaml file and you want to generate the API interface and models, like you would also do with a webservice using a WSDL file? To achieve this, swagger has a great tool: swagger-codegen. The tool has a CLI and a maven plugin, but no gradle plugin. So how do we use it with gradle?