feat(output-options): add prefer-skip-optional-pointer-on-container-types
#1979
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One of the key things
oapi-codegen
does is to use an "optionalpointer", following idiomatic Go practices, to indicate that a
field/type is optional.
It's possible for users to override this using behaviour on a per-type
or per-field basis using the
x-go-type-skip-optional-pointer
extension, but there are cases, as noted in #1561, where we're
generating the optional pointer for container types (such as slices or
maps) which doesn't make sense, as it requires an extra level of
... != nil
checks.Therefore we should introduce a new opt-in Output Option to allow
skipping the optional pointer on a container type.
Closes #1561.