How to extract response header & status code from Spring 5 WebClient ClientResponse

Question

I am new to Spring Reactive framework & trying to convert Springboot 1.5.x code into Springboot 2.0. I need to return response header after some filtering, body & status code from Spring 5 WebClient ClientResponse. I do not want to use block() method as it will convert it into sync call. I am able to get responsebody pretty easily using bodyToMono. Also, I am getting status code, headers & body if I am just returning ClientResponse but I need to process response based on statusCode & header parameters. I tried subscribe, flatMap etc. but nothing works.

E.g. - Below code will return response Body

Mono<String> responseBody =  response.flatMap(resp -> resp.bodyToMono(String.class));

But similar paradigm is not working to get statusCode & Response headers. Can someone help me in extracting statusCode & header parameters using Spring 5 reactive framework.

Answer 1

You can use the exchange function of webclient e.g.

Mono<String> reponse = webclient.get()
.uri("https://stackoverflow.com")
.exchange()
.doOnSuccess(clientResponse -> System.out.println("clientResponse.headers() = " + clientResponse.headers()))
.doOnSuccess(clientResponse -> System.out.println("clientResponse.statusCode() = " + clientResponse.statusCode()))
.flatMap(clientResponse -> clientResponse.bodyToMono(String.class));

then you can convert bodyToMono etc