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

Since Spring 5.1.13 you can use a dedicated .codec method to customize them:

WebClient.builder()
    .codecs(configurer -> {
        configurer.defaultCodecs().jackson2JsonEncoder(new Jackson2JsonEncoder(new ObjectMapper(), MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
        configurer.defaultCodecs().jackson2JsonDecoder(new Jackson2JsonDecoder(new ObjectMapper(), MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
     })
    .build();