updating object with spring data mongodb and kotlin is not working

Question

I have the following request handler

fun x(req: ServerRequest) = req.toMono()
    .flatMap {
        ...
        val oldest = myRepository.findOldest(...) //         


        

Answer 1

Nothing happens until someone subscribes to reactive Publisher. That's why it started to work when you used block(). If you need to make a call to DB and use the result in another DB request than use Mono / Flux operators like map(), flatMap(),... to build a pipeline of all the operations you need and after that return resulting Mono / Flux as controller’s response. Spring will subscribe to that Mono / Flux and will return the request. You don't need to block it. And it is not recommended to do it (to use block() method).

Short example how to work with MongoDB reactive repositories in Java:

@GetMapping("/users")
public Mono getPopulation() {
    return userRepository.findOldest()
            .flatMap(user -> {              // process the response from DB
                user.setTheOldest(true);
                return userRepository.save(user);
            })
            .map(user -> {...}); // another processing
}