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

Based on the replies above, I ended up with this code:

final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper()
    .findAndRegisterModules()
    .enable(DeserializationFeature.ACCEPT_EMPTY_STRING_AS_NULL_OBJECT);
final ExchangeStrategies exchangeStrategies = ExchangeStrategies.builder()
    .codecs(configurer -> configurer.defaultCodecs()
    .jackson2JsonDecoder(new Jackson2JsonDecoder(mapper)))
    .build();
final WebClient webClient = WebClient.builder()
    .exchangeStrategies(exchangeStrategies)
    .build();

If you don't include .findAndRegisterModules(), you're going to have problems when you want to deserialise things like Java 8's time objects.