Configure HTTP client library with different JSON processing library

[idkw]

Looking at customisation.md it seems that the generator imposes to use specific pairs of http client/json processing libraries.

The pairs are specified as :

• library template (sub-template) to use:
• jersey1 - HTTP client: Jersey client 1.18. JSON processing: Jackson 2.4.2
• jersey2 - HTTP client: Jersey client 2.6
• feign - HTTP client: Netflix Feign 8.1.1. JSON processing: Jackson 2.6.3
• okhttp-gson (default) - HTTP client: OkHttp 2.4.0. JSON processing: Gson 2.3.1
• retrofit - HTTP client: OkHttp 2.4.0. JSON processing: Gson 2.3.1 (Retrofit 1.9.0)
• retrofit2 - HTTP client: OkHttp 2.5.0. JSON processing: Gson 2.4 (Retrofit 2.0.0-beta2)
• google-api-client - HTTP client: google-api-client 1.23.0. JSON processing: Jackson 2.8.9
• rest-assured - HTTP client: rest-assured : 3.1.0. JSON processing: Gson 2.6.1. Only for Java8

However for better integration in our existing applications, we'd prefer the following pair :

HTTP client: OKHttp 3.6.0. JSON processing: Jackson 2.9.7

How would I go about using this ? Should I craft new mustaches template and code generator by hand which might break in future releases ? Shouldn't the configuration allow to separately specify the HTTP library and the json processing library ?

Thank you

[wing328]

Shouldn't the configuration allow to separately specify the HTTP library and the json processing library ?

I think that's the ideal case but I don't think anyone has time to work on that yet.

Would you have time to contribute the enhancement?

[idkw]

I'd like to, though I don't have much time either and don't really know where to start. Could you indicate where to look first in the project ?