Support primitive string response in Java clients

Author: xhh

modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/Java/ApiClient.mustache

@@ -385,8 +385,15 @@ public class ApiClient {
 
     if (contentType.startsWith("application/json")) {
       return json.deserialize(body, returnType);
+    } else if (returnType.getType().equals(String.class)) {
+      // Expecting string, return the raw response body.
+      return (T) body;
     } else {
-      throw new ApiException(500, "can not deserialize Content-Type: " + contentType);
+      throw new ApiException(
+        500,
+        "Content type \"" + contentType + "\" is not supported for type: "
+          + returnType.getType()
+      );
     }
   }
 

modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/Java/libraries/jersey2/ApiClient.mustache

@@ -389,8 +389,15 @@ public class ApiClient {
 
     if (contentType.startsWith("application/json")) {
       return json.deserialize(body, returnType);
+    } else if (returnType.getType().equals(String.class)) {
+      // Expecting string, return the raw response body.
+      return (T) body;
     } else {
-      throw new ApiException(500, "can not deserialize Content-Type: " + contentType);
+      throw new ApiException(
+        500,
+        "Content type \"" + contentType + "\" is not supported for type: "
+          + returnType.getType()
+      );
     }
   }
 
@@ -429,7 +436,7 @@ public class ApiClient {
       }
     }
 
-    Invocation.Builder invocationBuilder = target.request(contentType).accept(accept);
+    Invocation.Builder invocationBuilder = target.request().accept(accept);
 
     for (String key : headerParams.keySet()) {
       String value = headerParams.get(key);

modules/swagger-codegen/src/main/resources/Java/libraries/okhttp-gson/ApiClient.mustache

@@ -536,9 +536,12 @@ public class ApiClient {
     }
     if (contentType.startsWith("application/json")) {
       return json.deserialize(respBody, returnType);
+    } else if (returnType.equals(String.class)) {
+      // Expecting string, return the raw response body.
+      return (T) respBody;
     } else {
       throw new ApiException(
-        "Content type \"" + contentType + "\" is not supported",
+        "Content type \"" + contentType + "\" is not supported for type: " + returnType,
         response.code(),
         response.headers().toMultimap(),
         respBody);