Polymorphism with swagger not working as expected - swagger

Question

I am using springfox version 2.9.2 and swagger annotations 1.5.x. The ApiModel annotations support the discriminator, subTypes and parent attribute which are required to make polymorphism work but I am not seeing the correct apidocs generated to enable polymorphism.
Here is my annotated code.
#RestController
#RequestMapping("/api/vehicles")
public class VehicleController {
private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(VehicleController.class);
#PostMapping(consumes = {MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_UTF8_VALUE})
void post(#RequestBody Vehicle anyVehicle) {
LOGGER.info("Vehicle : {}", anyVehicle);
}
}
#ApiModel(discriminator = "type", subTypes = {Car.class, Bike.class})
public class Vehicle {
String brand;
String type;
public String getBrand() {
return brand;
}
public void setBrand(String brand) {
this.brand = brand;
}
public String getType() {
return type;
}
public void setType(String type) {
this.type = type;
}
}
#ApiModel(parent = Vehicle.class)
public class Car extends Vehicle {
int noOfDoors;
boolean powerWindows;
public int getNoOfDoors() {
return noOfDoors;
}
public void setNoOfDoors(int noOfDoors) {
this.noOfDoors = noOfDoors;
}
public boolean isPowerWindows() {
return powerWindows;
}
public void setPowerWindows(boolean powerWindows) {
this.powerWindows = powerWindows;
}
}
#ApiModel(parent = Vehicle.class)
public class Bike extends Vehicle {
boolean pillion;
public boolean isPillion() {
return pillion;
}
public void setPillion(boolean pillion) {
this.pillion = pillion;
}
}
When the docs get generated is basically shows one endpoint which handles a POST request and takes in a Vehicle as the model.
Is what I am doing here supposed to work? Can someone point me to a working example of this with SpringFox that I can look at?

Answer 1

Support for discriminator is not available in Swagger UI yet. You can follow these issues for status updates:
Discriminator does not switch schema
subTypes not displayed in model