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Converting a Webflux Request Into an RSocket Fire-And-Forget

Converting a Webflux Request Into an RSocket Fire-And-Forget

Learn how to forward a new item over RSocket using fire-and-forget and then test those interactions.

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Forwarding item using fire-and-forget

If we take a look at the following flow, we can see how to use RSocket’s fire-and-forget paradigm:

@PostMapping("/items/fire-and-forget")
Mono<ResponseEntity<?>> addNewItemUsingRSocketFireAndForget(@RequestBody Item item) {
	return this.requester 
		.flatMap(rSocketRequester -> rSocketRequester 
			.route("newItems.fire-and-forget") // <1>
			.data(item) 
			.send()) // <2>
		.then( // <3>
			Mono.just( 
				ResponseEntity.created( 
					URI.create("/items/fire-and-forget")).build()));
}
Forwarding a new Item over an RSocket using fire-and-forget

Here’s a breakdown of the code above:

  1. In line 5, the example forwards the incoming request to the destination newItems.fire-and-forget. ...