Update @RestClientTest to work with WebClient

[snicoll]

If WebFlux is on the classpath it would be cool if MockRestServiceServer could be configured with a WebClientinstred of a RestTemplate.

Since both will be on the classpath (RestTemplate is in a shared module), the annotation should probably have an attribute to indicate a preference. Not sure that both can be used at the same time though.

@RestClientTest(useWebClient=true)

An enum will be better but I can't find good names for the values (REST_TEMPLATE is pretty gross).

This currently requires some changes in Spring Framework, I've created an issue

[mickaeltr]

Hello,

Does anyone has any update on this one?

I was about to migrate my code to WebClient as recommended, because RestTemplate / OAuth2RestTemplate are in maintenance mode… but the lack of testing support makes it inconvenient in the end.

Using MockWebServer is an option, but it's not as elegant as RestClientTest.

Thanks

[wilkinsona]

The Spring Framework team have declined the issue that was blocking this one. Their recommendation is to use MockWebServer. Given that's the situation, there's nothing that was can do here.

[mickaeltr]

Thanks for the insight @wilkinsona

[jbotuck]

Sorry if I'm having trouble navigating this. This wasn't a question as much as a feature request. The current issue concludes with : won't support a test slice for webclient since the spring mock Web server doesn't support webclient

I'm here to ask for a test slice that uses okhttp mock server instead.

This might be worthy of its own GitHub issue, but as you saw, I tried that already.