Generate and build swagger API client using maven

pom.xml

      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.github.kongchen</groupId>
        <artifactId>swagger-maven-plugin</artifactId>

        <configuration>
          <apiSources>
            <apiSource>
              <springmvc>true</springmvc>
              <locations>
                <location>com.example.resources.DemoResource</location>
              </locations>

              <info>
                <title>Demonstration</title>
                <version>v1.0</version>
                <description>This is a demo</description>
              </info>

              <schemes>
                <scheme>https</scheme>
              </schemes>
              <host>www.example.com</host>
              <basePath>/demo_app</basePath>
              <outputPath>${basedir}/target/generated</outputPath>
              <outputFormats>yaml</outputFormats>
              <swaggerDirectory>${basedir}/target/swagger</swaggerDirectory>
            </apiSource>
          </apiSources>
        </configuration>


        <executions>

          <execution>
            <phase>compile</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>generate</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>


      <plugin>
        <groupId>io.swagger</groupId>
        <artifactId>swagger-codegen-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.1</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>compile</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>generate</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <modelPackage>com.example.model</modelPackage>
              <apiPackage>com.example.api</apiPackage>
              <invokerPackage>com.example.invoker</invokerPackage>
              <inputSpec>${project.basedir}/target/swagger/swagger.yaml</inputSpec>
              <language>java</language>

              <configOptions>
                <groupId>com.example</groupId>
                <artifactId>example-client</artifactId>
                <version>${project.version}</version>
                <sourceFolder>src/main/java</sourceFolder>
              </configOptions>

            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.6.0</version>

        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>install</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>exec</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
        <configuration>
          <arguments>
            <argument>install</argument>
            <argument>-f</argument>
            <argument>target/generated-sources/swagger/pom.xml</argument>
          </arguments>
          <executable>mvn</executable>
        </configuration>

      </plugin>

The POM snippet allows building of swagger definition file (swagger.yaml), then using it to generate Java sources for the API client and then build the generated sources and push it to a repo