Description

oapi-codegen version: v2.6.0

When a oneOf schema uses a discriminator and the variant schemas are defined via allOf (inheriting from a base schema with an optional field that gets narrowed to an enum in the variant), the generator correctly produces a pointer type for the discriminator field — but then generates From* / Merge* helper functions that assign a raw string literal to that pointer field. This produces code that does not compile.

Two mistakes occur in the same generated output:

1. A plain untyped string constant is assigned to a pointer type (*ResourceConflictErrorCode), which the compiler rejects.
2. The already-generated typed constants (ResourceExists, IdempotencyConflict) are not used — even if the field were non-pointer, a direct string literal assignment would still fail due to the named type.

Schema (minimal reproduction)

# errs.yml
components:
  schemas:
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      required: [error]
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
        error:
          type: string

    ResourceConflictError:
      type: object
      required: [code, error]
      allOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        - properties:
            code:
              type: string
              enum: [resource_exists]
              example: resource_exists

    IdempotencyConflictError:
      type: object
      required: [code, error]
      allOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        - properties:
            code:
              type: string
              enum: [idempotency_conflict]
              example: idempotency_conflict

  responses:
    Conflict:
      description: Conflict
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            oneOf:
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ResourceConflictError'
              - $ref: '#/components/schemas/IdempotencyConflictError'
            discriminator:
              propertyName: code
              mapping:
                resource_exists: '#/components/schemas/ResourceConflictError'
                idempotency_conflict: '#/components/schemas/IdempotencyConflictError'

Generated code (broken)

The generator emits typed constants and pointer-typed fields correctly:

const (
    IdempotencyConflict IdempotencyConflictErrorCode = "idempotency_conflict"
    ResourceExists      ResourceConflictErrorCode    = "resource_exists"
)

type ResourceConflictError struct {
    Code  *ResourceConflictErrorCode `json:"code,omitempty"`
    Error string                     `json:"error"`
}

type IdempotencyConflictError struct {
    Code  *IdempotencyConflictErrorCode `json:"code,omitempty"`
    Error string                        `json:"error"`
}

But the From* / Merge* helpers assign raw string literals to those pointer fields:

func (t *Conflict) FromResourceConflictError(v ResourceConflictError) error {
    v.Code = "resource_exists"   // ERROR: cannot use untyped string as *ResourceConflictErrorCode
    ...
}

func (t *Conflict) MergeResourceConflictError(v ResourceConflictError) error {
    v.Code = "resource_exists"   // ERROR: same
    ...
}

func (t *Conflict) FromIdempotencyConflictError(v IdempotencyConflictError) error {
    v.Code = "idempotency_conflict"   // ERROR: cannot use untyped string as *IdempotencyConflictErrorCode
    ...
}

func (t *Conflict) MergeIdempotencyConflictError(v IdempotencyConflictError) error {
    v.Code = "idempotency_conflict"   // ERROR: same
    ...
}

Compiler errors

cannot use "resource_exists" (untyped string constant) as *ResourceConflictErrorCode value in assignment
cannot use "idempotency_conflict" (untyped string constant) as *IdempotencyConflictErrorCode value in assignment

Root cause (hypothesis)

The generator does not honour the required: [code, error] constraint declared at the top level alongside allOf — it sees code as optional in the base ErrorResponse and generates a pointer field. The From*/Merge* template then generates a plain string literal assignment without accounting for either the pointer indirection or the named type, and without reusing the typed constants it already emitted earlier in the same file.