How to customize SpringWebFlux WebClient JSON deserialization?

Question

I\'m using a spring-webflux WebClient (build 20170502.221452-172) to access a Web application producing a stream of Entry objects (application/stream+json) like th

Answer 1

You can configure this for a specific WebClient:

@Autowired
public ItunesAlbumServiceImpl(ObjectMapper mapper) {
    ExchangeStrategies strategies = ExchangeStrategies.builder().codecs(clientCodecConfigurer ->
        clientCodecConfigurer.customCodecs().decoder(
                new Jackson2JsonDecoder(mapper,
                        new MimeType("text", "javascript", StandardCharsets.UTF_8)))
    ).build();

    webClient = WebClient.builder()
            .exchangeStrategies(strategies)
            .baseUrl("https://itunes.apple.com")
            .build();
}

But also on 'application level'

by configuring a CodecCustomizer:

@Bean
public CodecCustomizer jacksonLegacyJsonCustomizer(ObjectMapper mapper) {
    return (configurer) -> {
        MimeType textJavascript = new MimeType("text", "javascript", StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
        CodecConfigurer.CustomCodecs customCodecs = configurer.customCodecs();
        customCodecs.decoder(
                new Jackson2JsonDecoder(mapper, textJavascript));
        customCodecs.encoder(
                new Jackson2JsonEncoder(mapper, textJavascript));
    };
}

which will be made effective by the WebClientAutoConfiguration as a WebClient.Builder bean:

@Autowired
public ItunesAlbumServiceImpl(WebClient.Builder webclientBuilder) {
    webClient = webclientBuilder.baseUrl("https://itunes.apple.com").build();
}