How to set @ApiModelProperty dataType to String for Swagger documentation

Question

I am using Spring MVC (via Spring Boot) and have integrated Swagger API documentation using the swagger-spring-mvc library.

I have a class that looks something like

Answer 1

Turns out that dataType is completely ignored in the current version of the Swagger Spring MVC library. I found a short discussion on it here:

https://github.com/springfox/springfox/issues/602

Looks like it could be included in version 2 once that is out.

EDIT: Although version 2 says it supports dataType, it doesn't appear to be working at this time. A better approach for my needs is to configure the documentation settings with a direct model substitution like this:

@Bean
public Docket swaggerSpringMvcPlugin() {
    return new Docket(DocumentationType.SWAGGER_2)
            .directModelSubstitute(Money.class, String.class);
}