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title: Documentation for the typescript-nestjs-server Generator
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## METADATA

| Property | Value | Notes |
| -------- | ----- | ----- |
| generator name | typescript-nestjs-server | pass this to the generate command after -g |
| generator stability | BETA | |
| generator type | SERVER | |
| generator language | Typescript | |
| generator default templating engine | mustache | |
| helpTxt | Generates a TypeScript NestJS server stub. | |

## CONFIG OPTIONS
These options may be applied as additional-properties (cli) or configOptions (plugins). Refer to [configuration docs](https://openapi-generator.tech/docs/configuration) for more details.

| Option | Description | Values | Default |
| ------ | ----------- | ------ | ------- |
|allowUnicodeIdentifiers|boolean, toggles whether unicode identifiers are allowed in names or not, default is false| |false|
|apiFileSuffix|The suffix of the file of the generated API class (api&lt;suffix&gt;.ts).| |.api|
|apiSuffix|The suffix of the generated API class| |Api|
|disallowAdditionalPropertiesIfNotPresent|If false, the 'additionalProperties' implementation (set to true by default) is compliant with the OAS and JSON schema specifications. If true (default), keep the old (incorrect) behaviour that 'additionalProperties' is set to false by default.|<dl><dt>**false**</dt><dd>The 'additionalProperties' implementation is compliant with the OAS and JSON schema specifications.</dd><dt>**true**</dt><dd>Keep the old (incorrect) behaviour that 'additionalProperties' is set to false by default.</dd></dl>|true|
|ensureUniqueParams|Whether to ensure parameter names are unique in an operation (rename parameters that are not).| |true|
|enumNameSuffix|Suffix that will be appended to all enum names.| |Enum|
|enumPropertyNaming|Naming convention for enum properties: 'camelCase', 'PascalCase', 'snake_case', 'UPPERCASE', and 'original'| |PascalCase|
|enumPropertyNamingReplaceSpecialChar|Set to true to replace '-' and '+' symbols with 'minus_' and 'plus_' in enum of type string| |false|
|enumUnknownDefaultCase|If the server adds new enum cases, that are unknown by an old spec/client, the client will fail to parse the network response.With this option enabled, each enum will have a new case, 'unknown_default_open_api', so that when the server sends an enum case that is not known by the client/spec, they can safely fallback to this case.|<dl><dt>**false**</dt><dd>No changes to the enum's are made, this is the default option.</dd><dt>**true**</dt><dd>With this option enabled, each enum will have a new case, 'unknown_default_open_api', so that when the enum case sent by the server is not known by the client/spec, can safely be decoded to this case.</dd></dl>|false|
|fileNaming|Naming convention for the output files: 'camelCase', 'kebab-case'.| |kebab-case|
|legacyDiscriminatorBehavior|Set to false for generators with better support for discriminators. (Python, Java, Go, PowerShell, C# have this enabled by default).|<dl><dt>**true**</dt><dd>The mapping in the discriminator includes descendent schemas that allOf inherit from self and the discriminator mapping schemas in the OAS document.</dd><dt>**false**</dt><dd>The mapping in the discriminator includes any descendent schemas that allOf inherit from self, any oneOf schemas, any anyOf schemas, any x-discriminator-values, and the discriminator mapping schemas in the OAS document AND Codegen validates that oneOf and anyOf schemas contain the required discriminator and throws an error if the discriminator is missing.</dd></dl>|true|
|licenseName|The name of the license| |Unlicense|
|modelFileSuffix|The suffix of the file of the generated model (model&lt;suffix&gt;.ts).| |null|
|modelPropertyNaming|Naming convention for the property: 'camelCase', 'PascalCase', 'snake_case' and 'original', which keeps the original name. Only change it if you provide your own run-time code for (de-)serialization of models| |original|
|modelSuffix|The suffix of the generated model.| |null|
|nestVersion|The version of Nestjs. (At least 10.0.0)| |10.0.0|
|npmName|The name under which you want to publish generated npm package. Required to generate a full package| |null|
|npmRepository|Use this property to set an url your private npmRepo in the package.json| |null|
|npmVersion|The version of your npm package. If not provided, using the version from the OpenAPI specification file.| |1.0.0|
|nullSafeAdditionalProps|Set to make additional properties types declare that their indexer may return undefined| |false|
|paramNaming|Naming convention for parameters: 'camelCase', 'PascalCase', 'snake_case' and 'original', which keeps the original name| |camelCase|
|prependFormOrBodyParameters|Add form or body parameters to the beginning of the parameter list.| |false|
|rxjsVersion|The version of RxJS compatible with Angular (see ngVersion option).| |null|
|snapshot|When setting this property to true, the version will be suffixed with -SNAPSHOT.yyyyMMddHHmm| |false|
|sortModelPropertiesByRequiredFlag|Sort model properties to place required parameters before optional parameters.| |true|
|sortParamsByRequiredFlag|Sort method arguments to place required parameters before optional parameters.| |true|
|stringEnums|Generate string enums instead of objects for enum values.| |false|
|supportsES6|Generate code that conforms to ES6.| |false|
|taggedUnions|Use discriminators to create tagged unions instead of extending interfaces.| |false|
|tsVersion|The version of typescript compatible with Angular (see ngVersion option).| |null|
|useSingleRequestParameter|Setting this property to true will generate functions with a single argument containing all API endpoint parameters instead of one argument per parameter.| |false|

## IMPORT MAPPING

| Type/Alias | Imports |
| ---------- | ------- |


## INSTANTIATION TYPES

| Type/Alias | Instantiated By |
| ---------- | --------------- |
|array|Array|


## LANGUAGE PRIMITIVES

<ul class="column-ul">
<li>Array</li>
<li>Awaited</li>
<li>Blob</li>
<li>Boolean</li>
<li>Capitalize</li>
<li>ConstructorParameters</li>
<li>Date</li>
<li>Double</li>
<li>Error</li>
<li>Exclude</li>
<li>Extract</li>
<li>File</li>
<li>Float</li>
<li>InstanceType</li>
<li>Integer</li>
<li>Long</li>
<li>Lowercase</li>
<li>Map</li>
<li>NoInfer</li>
<li>NonNullable</li>
<li>Object</li>
<li>Omit</li>
<li>OmitThisParameter</li>
<li>Parameters</li>
<li>Partial</li>
<li>Pick</li>
<li>Readonly</li>
<li>ReadonlyArray</li>
<li>Record</li>
<li>Required</li>
<li>ReturnType</li>
<li>Set</li>
<li>String</li>
<li>ThisParameterType</li>
<li>ThisType</li>
<li>Uncapitalize</li>
<li>Uppercase</li>
<li>any</li>
<li>boolean</li>
<li>number</li>
<li>object</li>
<li>string</li>
</ul>

## RESERVED WORDS

<ul class="column-ul">
<li>abstract</li>
<li>await</li>
<li>boolean</li>
<li>break</li>
<li>byte</li>
<li>case</li>
<li>catch</li>
<li>char</li>
<li>class</li>
<li>const</li>
<li>continue</li>
<li>debugger</li>
<li>default</li>
<li>delete</li>
<li>do</li>
<li>double</li>
<li>else</li>
<li>enum</li>
<li>export</li>
<li>extends</li>
<li>false</li>
<li>final</li>
<li>finally</li>
<li>float</li>
<li>for</li>
<li>formParams</li>
<li>from</li>
<li>function</li>
<li>goto</li>
<li>headerParams</li>
<li>headers</li>
<li>if</li>
<li>implements</li>
<li>import</li>
<li>in</li>
<li>instanceof</li>
<li>int</li>
<li>interface</li>
<li>let</li>
<li>long</li>
<li>native</li>
<li>new</li>
<li>null</li>
<li>package</li>
<li>private</li>
<li>protected</li>
<li>public</li>
<li>queryParameters</li>
<li>requestOptions</li>
<li>return</li>
<li>short</li>
<li>static</li>
<li>super</li>
<li>switch</li>
<li>synchronized</li>
<li>this</li>
<li>throw</li>
<li>transient</li>
<li>true</li>
<li>try</li>
<li>typeof</li>
<li>useFormData</li>
<li>var</li>
<li>varLocalDeferred</li>
<li>varLocalPath</li>
<li>void</li>
<li>volatile</li>
<li>while</li>
<li>with</li>
<li>yield</li>
</ul>

## FEATURE SET


### Client Modification Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|BasePath|✓|ToolingExtension
|Authorizations|✗|ToolingExtension
|UserAgent|✗|ToolingExtension
|MockServer|✗|ToolingExtension

### Data Type Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|Custom|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|Int32|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Int64|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Float|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Double|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Decimal|✓|ToolingExtension
|String|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Byte|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Binary|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Boolean|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Date|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|DateTime|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Password|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|File|✓|OAS2
|Uuid|✗|
|Array|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Null|✗|OAS3
|AnyType|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|Object|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Maps|✓|ToolingExtension
|CollectionFormat|✓|OAS2
|CollectionFormatMulti|✓|OAS2
|Enum|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|ArrayOfEnum|✓|ToolingExtension
|ArrayOfModel|✓|ToolingExtension
|ArrayOfCollectionOfPrimitives|✓|ToolingExtension
|ArrayOfCollectionOfModel|✓|ToolingExtension
|ArrayOfCollectionOfEnum|✓|ToolingExtension
|MapOfEnum|✓|ToolingExtension
|MapOfModel|✓|ToolingExtension
|MapOfCollectionOfPrimitives|✓|ToolingExtension
|MapOfCollectionOfModel|✓|ToolingExtension
|MapOfCollectionOfEnum|✓|ToolingExtension

### Documentation Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|Readme|✓|ToolingExtension
|Model|✓|ToolingExtension
|Api|✓|ToolingExtension

### Global Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|Host|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|BasePath|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Info|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Schemes|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|PartialSchemes|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Consumes|✓|OAS2
|Produces|✓|OAS2
|ExternalDocumentation|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Examples|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|XMLStructureDefinitions|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|MultiServer|✗|OAS3
|ParameterizedServer|✗|OAS3
|ParameterStyling|✗|OAS3
|Callbacks|✗|OAS3
|LinkObjects|✗|OAS3

### Parameter Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|Path|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Query|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Header|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Body|✓|OAS2
|FormUnencoded|✓|OAS2
|FormMultipart|✓|OAS2
|Cookie|✓|OAS3

### Schema Support Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|Simple|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|Composite|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|Polymorphism|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|Union|✗|OAS3
|allOf|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|anyOf|✗|OAS3
|oneOf|✓|OAS3
|not|✗|OAS3

### Security Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|BasicAuth|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|ApiKey|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|OpenIDConnect|✗|OAS3
|BearerToken|✗|OAS3
|OAuth2_Implicit|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|OAuth2_Password|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|OAuth2_ClientCredentials|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|OAuth2_AuthorizationCode|✗|OAS2,OAS3
|SignatureAuth|✗|OAS3
|AWSV4Signature|✗|ToolingExtension

### Wire Format Feature
| Name | Supported | Defined By |
| ---- | --------- | ---------- |
|JSON|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|XML|✓|OAS2,OAS3
|PROTOBUF|✗|ToolingExtension
|Custom|✗|OAS2,OAS3
