How to link request examples with response examples in the OpenAPI specification

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I am using an API first approach to define my APIs with postman and OpenAPI 3.0. However I’ve encountered a problem with the examples when generating collections from the API specification.

When I am autogenerating a collection from the schema below, two examples are generated for post /products (one for the 201 response status and another for the 400). However both of them get assigned the same request example (validRequest).

Is there a way to assign the validRequest example to the response 201 and the wrongRequest to the response 400?

paths:
  /products:
    post:
      summary: Add Product
      description: Creates a new product.
      operationId: addProduct
      tags:
        - Products
      requestBody:
        description: A product schema.
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Product'
            examples:
              wrongRequest:
                category: Jeans
                brand: Union
              invalidRequest:
                category: UknownCategory
                brand: Union
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Successful creation of product.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Product'
              example:
                success: true
        '400':
          description: Error.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Product'
              example:
                success: false
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Hello, I’m facing the same issue, did you find a way to link response example to specific request example ?