Fix RestClient API usage in documentation

Closes gh-37137

Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Jung <hyunwoojung@kakao.com>
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Hyunwoo Jung
2026-08-18 18:49:06 +02:00
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parent 04e5c92162
commit a165094470
5 changed files with 412 additions and 124 deletions
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ The Spring Framework provides the following choices for making calls to REST end
`RestClient` is a synchronous HTTP client that provides a fluent API to perform requests.
It serves as an abstraction over HTTP libraries, and handles conversion of HTTP request and response content to and from higher level Java objects.
[[rest-restclient.create]]
=== Create a `RestClient`
`RestClient` has static `create` shortcut methods.
@@ -32,48 +33,7 @@ Once created, a `RestClient` is safe to use in multiple threads.
The below shows how to create or build a `RestClient`:
[tabs]
======
Java::
+
[source,java,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
----
RestClient defaultClient = RestClient.create();
RestClient customClient = RestClient.builder()
.requestFactory(new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory())
.messageConverters(converters -> converters.add(new MyCustomMessageConverter()))
.baseUrl("https://example.com")
.defaultUriVariables(Map.of("variable", "foo"))
.defaultHeader("My-Header", "Foo")
.defaultCookie("My-Cookie", "Bar")
.defaultVersion("1.2")
.apiVersionInserter(ApiVersionInserter.fromHeader("API-Version").build())
.requestInterceptor(myCustomInterceptor)
.requestInitializer(myCustomInitializer)
.build();
----
Kotlin::
+
[source,kotlin,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
----
val defaultClient = RestClient.create()
val customClient = RestClient.builder()
.requestFactory(HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory())
.messageConverters { converters -> converters.add(MyCustomMessageConverter()) }
.baseUrl("https://example.com")
.defaultUriVariables(mapOf("variable" to "foo"))
.defaultHeader("My-Header", "Foo")
.defaultCookie("My-Cookie", "Bar")
.defaultVersion("1.2")
.apiVersionInserter(ApiVersionInserter.fromHeader("API-Version").build())
.requestInterceptor(myCustomInterceptor)
.requestInitializer(myCustomInitializer)
.build()
----
======
include-code::./RestClientCreation[tag=snippet,indent=0]
=== Use the `RestClient`
@@ -390,17 +350,7 @@ xref:web/webmvc/message-converters.adoc#message-converters[See the supported HTT
To serialize only a subset of the object properties, you can specify a {baeldung-blog}/jackson-json-view-annotation[Jackson JSON View], as the following example shows:
[source,java,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
----
MappingJacksonValue value = new MappingJacksonValue(new User("eric", "7!jd#h23"));
value.setSerializationView(User.WithoutPasswordView.class);
ResponseEntity<Void> response = restClient.post() // or RestTemplate.postForEntity
.contentType(APPLICATION_JSON)
.body(value)
.retrieve()
.toBodilessEntity();
----
include-code::./../restmessageconversion/RestClientMessageConversion[tag=jsonview,indent=0]
==== URL encoded Forms
@@ -410,17 +360,7 @@ or a target type.
For example:
[source,java,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
----
MultiValueMap<String, String> form = new LinkedMultiValueMap<>();
form.add("project", "Spring Framework");
form.add("module", "spring-web");
ResponseEntity<Void> response = this.restClient.post()
.contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_FORM_URLENCODED)
.body(form)
.retrieve()
.toBodilessEntity();
----
include-code::./../restmessageconversion/RestClientMessageConversion[tag=urlencodedform,indent=0]
==== Multipart
@@ -428,24 +368,7 @@ For example:
To send multipart data, you need to provide a `MultiValueMap<String, Object>` whose values may be an `Object` for part content, a `Resource` for a file part, or an `HttpEntity` for part content with headers.
For example:
[source,java,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
----
MultiValueMap<String, Object> parts = new LinkedMultiValueMap<>();
parts.add("fieldPart", "fieldValue");
parts.add("filePart", new FileSystemResource("...logo.png"));
parts.add("jsonPart", new Person("Jason"));
HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML);
parts.add("xmlPart", new HttpEntity<>(myBean, headers));
ResponseEntity<Void> response = this.restClient.post()
.contentType(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA)
.body(parts)
.retrieve()
.toBodilessEntity();
----
include-code::./../restmessageconversion/RestClientMessageConversion[tag=multipartrequest,indent=0]
In most cases, you do not have to specify the `Content-Type` for each part.
The content type is determined automatically based on the `HttpMessageConverter` chosen to serialize it or, in the case of a `Resource`, based on the file extension.
@@ -461,48 +384,7 @@ To decode a multipart response body, use a `ParameterizedTypeReference<MultiValu
The decoded map contains `Part` instances where `FormFieldPart` represents form field values
and `FilePart` represents file parts with a `filename()` and a `transferTo()` method.
[tabs]
======
Java::
+
[source,java,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
----
MultiValueMap<String, Part> result = this.restClient.get()
.uri("https://example.com/upload")
.accept(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA)
.retrieve()
.body(new ParameterizedTypeReference<>() {});
Part field = result.getFirst("fieldPart");
if (field instanceof FormFieldPart formField) {
String fieldValue = formField.value();
}
Part file = result.getFirst("filePart");
if (file instanceof FilePart filePart) {
filePart.transferTo(Path.of("/tmp/" + filePart.filename()));
}
----
Kotlin::
+
[source,kotlin,indent=0,subs="verbatim"]
----
val result = this.restClient.get()
.uri("https://example.com/upload")
.accept(MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA)
.retrieve()
.body(object : ParameterizedTypeReference<MultiValueMap<String, Part>>() {})
val field = result?.getFirst("fieldPart")
if (field is FormFieldPart) {
val fieldValue = field.value()
}
val file = result?.getFirst("filePart")
if (file is FilePart) {
file.transferTo(Path.of("/tmp/" + file.filename()))
}
----
======
include-code::./../restmessageconversion/RestClientMessageConversion[tag=multipartresponse,indent=0]
[[rest-request-factories]]