Spring WebClient: How to stream large byte[] to file?

Question

It seems like it the Spring RestTemplate isn\'t able to stream a response directly to file without buffering it all in memory. What is the proper to achieve this us

Answer 1

Store the body to a temporary file and consume

static  Mono writeBodyToTempFileAndApply(
        final WebClient.ResponseSpec spec,
        final Function function) {
    return using(
            () -> createTempFile(null, null),
            t -> write(spec.bodyToFlux(DataBuffer.class), t)
                    .thenReturn(function.apply(t)),
            t -> {
                try {
                    deleteIfExists(t);
                } catch (final IOException ioe) {
                    throw new RuntimeException(ioe);
                }
            }
    );
}

Pipe the body and consume

static  Mono pipeBodyAndApply(
        final WebClient.ResponseSpec spec, final ExecutorService executor,
        final Function function) {
    return using(
            Pipe::open,
            p -> {
                final Future future = executor.submit(
                        () -> write(spec.bodyToFlux(DataBuffer.class), p.sink())
                                .log()
                                .doFinally(s -> {
                                    try {
                                        p.sink().close();
                                        log.debug("p.sink closed");
                                    } catch (final IOException ioe) {
                                        throw new RuntimeException(ioe);
                                    }
                                })
                                .subscribe(DataBufferUtils.releaseConsumer())
                );
                return just(function.apply(p.source()))
                        .log()
                        .doFinally(s -> {
                            try {
                                final Disposable disposable = future.get();
                                assert disposable.isDisposed();
                            } catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
                                e.printStackTrace();
                            }
                        });
            },
            p -> {
                try {
                    p.source().close();
                    log.debug("p.source closed");
                } catch (final IOException ioe) {
                    throw new RuntimeException(ioe);
                }
            }
    );
}