Spring 4.0.0 basic authentication with RestTemplate

Question

I am currently working on integration of a third party application with our local reporting system. I would like to implement REST calls with basic authentication but facing

Answer 1

I have another solution to set basic authentication for customized rest template.

RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
    HttpHost proxy =null;
    RequestConfig config=null;
    String credentials = this.env.getProperty("uname") + ":" + this.env.getProperty("pwd");
    String encodedAuthorization = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(credentials.getBytes());

    Header header = new BasicHeader(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, "Basic " + encodedAuthorization);
    List
 headers = new ArrayList<>();
    headers.add(header);
    // if we need proxy
    if(Boolean.valueOf(env.getProperty("proxyFlag"))){
        proxy = new HttpHost(this.env.getProperty("proxyHost"), Integer.parseInt(env.getProperty("proxyPort")), "http");
        config= RequestConfig.custom().setProxy(proxy).build();
    }else{
        config= RequestConfig.custom().build();
    }


    CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().setDefaultRequestConfig(config)
            .setDefaultHeaders(headers).build();

    HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory factory = new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory(httpClient);
    restTemplate.setRequestFactory(factory);

    return restTemplate;