Hands-On Spring Security 5 for Reactive Applications

Sending requests and retrieving responses

The retrieve() method is a simple method, using which the response body can be retrieved. If you want to have more control over returned responses, the exchange() method can be used to retrieve the response. We have used both of the methods in our sample application; the code snippets for the two methods in the WebClientTestImpl class are as follows:

@Overridepublic Mono<Movie> getMovieById(Long id)   return this.webClient.get().uri("/{id}", id)          .retrieve().bodyToMono(Movie.class);}@Overridepublic Mono<Movie> saveMovie(Movie movie) {  return webClient.post().uri("/")          .body(BodyInserters.fromObject(movie))          .exchange().flatMap( clientResponse ->                 clientResponse.bodyToMono(Movie.class) );}

In the first ...