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Welcome to the GenFlow wiki!

This is where we'll keep documentation for GenFlow usage, ongoing maintenance, FAQs and troubleshooting topics.

GenFlow encompases several core capabilities, detailed in the linked topics:

• Unified Framework for open source code generators that work with API description languages. GenFlow is designed to provide a consistent representation and lifcycle model that works across all of the integrated codegen libraries.
  
  
• Metadata Services to describe and categorize the available generator modules, called GenTemplates, and their configuration parameters. This allows for consistent access, presentation, search & filter, configuration and execution.
  
  
• Project Model to manage codegen configurations as simple, self-contained mini-projects called GenTargets. Each GenTarget wires one or more API descriptions to a specific GenTemplate, and includes a YAML-formatted .gen configuration file, pre-populated with all of the available parameters for easy configuration.
  
  
• Lifecycle Management including GenTarget creation, update, cleaning, and execution.
  
  
• Pre-Processing and Multi-Step Chaining of code generators. By default, OpenAPI v2 and v3 inputs are pre-processed through KaiZen-OpenAPI-Normalizer to resolve external references, expand cascading properties, and explicate default property values for reliable downstream processing. Pre-processors and generators can be pipelined for advanced codegen solutions.
  
  
• Xtend GenTemplate Framework allows you to create custom GenTemplates in Xtend, a Java-based language with built-in support for template expressions, a complete Eclipse development environment, and other conveniences that make it a great choice for code generation.

Learn More:

• GenFlow Overview and Concepts [coming soon]
• GenFlow Metadata Services
• GenTarget Layout and Configuration [coming soon]
• GenTarget Lifecycle Management [coming soon]
• Generator Chaining and Pre-Processing [coming soon]
• The Xtend GenTemplate Framework [coming soon]