Add ClientHttpConnector for Apache Http-async-client [SPR-16341]

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sushma opened SPR-16341 and commented

Since RestTemplate, earlier had provided support for Apache Http Components, I was expecting Web Flux also to provide a default implementation for Apache Async Components.

Can you please direct me to any documentation on this ? or Provide me more information on this

Thanks

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Issue Links:

• Jetty HTTP client integration with WebClient [SPR-15092] #19658 Jetty HTTP client integration with WebClient

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Brian Clozel commented

Hello sushma - in order to provide such a support in WebClient, we'd need that HTTP client library to be asynchronous and non-blocking, and also provide the appropriate API to communicate the backpressure information.

At a quick glance, it seems that this library doesn't provide a way to communicate backpressure - it's all Future based and is push-only: there's no way to control the amount of inbound data (see the streaming example).

I'm closing this for now - anyone should feel free to reopen this issue if I've missed something.