Created by: bmordue
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Description of the PR
It's safer to initialize the request body to an empty Object instead of null if there are no body parameters. In particular, this allows Jackson to successfully serialize a POST request with no body parameters when the Content-Type header is set to "application/json, which is set by default.
See https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-codegen/pull/7551 for more context -- bringing this over to openapi-generator
cc @bbdouglas @JFCote @sreeshas @jfiala @lukoyanov @cbornet @jeff9finger