RestClient support customiser

[M-Whitaker]

As of Spring Boot 3.2.0 RestClient has been added via Spring Framework to replace WebClient. Is there a replacement for hypermediaWebClientCustomizer?

[odrotbohm]

RestClient works with a RestTemplate under the covers, so all hypermedia-related customizations would have to be (and are, in fact) applied to that, right?

[M-Whitaker]

Yes this is my understanding. Currently I have a bean like this:

@Bean
  public RestClientCustomizer hypermediaRestClientCustomizer(WebConverters webConverters) {
    return builder -> builder.messageConverters(webConverters::augmentClient);

Which works fine, as you said. Is there plans to put a wrapper around this like has been done for resttemplate & web client?

[bertsanders]

This worked for me, but only if I use RestClient.ResponseSpec.toEntity(). RestClient.ResponseSpec.body() failed to parse the response to a PagedModelType.

[pcornelissen]

Maybe there should be at least a section in the documentation what to do or expect when you want to use hateoas with RestClient.
I don't think that many/all users of the hateoas Lib with "regular" spring knowledge know what to do in this case.