diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/AbstractJavaCodegen.java b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/AbstractJavaCodegen.java
index e0f94fea1928..62b8bda30c73 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/AbstractJavaCodegen.java
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/AbstractJavaCodegen.java
@@ -1734,6 +1734,8 @@ public String toEnumValue(String value, String datatype) {
         } else if ("BigDecimal".equals(datatype)) {
             // use BigDecimal String constructor
             return "new BigDecimal(\"" + value + "\")";
+        } else if ("URI".equals(datatype)) {
+            return "URI.create(\"" + escapeText(value) + "\")";
         } else {
             return "\"" + escapeText(value) + "\"";
         }
diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/java/org/openapitools/codegen/java/AbstractJavaCodegenTest.java b/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/java/org/openapitools/codegen/java/AbstractJavaCodegenTest.java
index 56be46d46f6f..31c97e6c65fc 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/java/org/openapitools/codegen/java/AbstractJavaCodegenTest.java
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/test/java/org/openapitools/codegen/java/AbstractJavaCodegenTest.java
@@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ public void toEnumValue() {
         Assert.assertEquals(codegen.toEnumValue("42", "Double"), "42");
         Assert.assertEquals(codegen.toEnumValue("1337", "Long"), "1337l");
         Assert.assertEquals(codegen.toEnumValue("3.14", "Float"), "3.14f");
+        Assert.assertEquals(codegen.toEnumValue("schema.json", "URI"), "URI.create(\"schema.json\")");
     }
 
     @Test