Set connection timeout using Spring Webflux Reactive WebClient

Question

What is the correct way to set a (connection) timeout for the (default) WebClient?

Is it enough to just use Mono#timeout(Duration) method on the resulti

Answer 1

As of Reactor Netty 0.8 and Spring Framework 5.1, you can set connection, read & write timeouts like the following:

TcpClient tcpClient = TcpClient.create()
                 .option(ChannelOption.CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MILLIS, 1000) // Connection Timeout
                 .doOnConnected(connection ->
                         connection.addHandlerLast(new ReadTimeoutHandler(10)) // Read Timeout
                                   .addHandlerLast(new WriteTimeoutHandler(10))); // Write Timeout
WebClient webClient = WebClient.builder()
    .clientConnector(new ReactorClientHttpConnector(HttpClient.from(tcpClient)))
    .build();