Reactive Web client [SPR-14154]

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Rossen Stoyanchev opened SPR-14154 and commented

In addition to reactive HTTP abstractions (see #18724) we need a WebClient to perform HTTP requests with higher level support for serializing and deserializing business objects to and from JSON, XML and other content types.

This is equivalent to the existing RestTemplate and AsyncRestTemplate but built on the reactive HTTP request and response from #18724. The new WebClient should provide first class support for using different async composition libraries with built-in support for Reactor and RxJava 1.x.

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Affects: 4.2.5

Issue Links:

• Reactive client and server HTTP adapters [SPR-14152] #18724 Reactive client and server HTTP adapters ("depends on")