EDIT: The core issue to this is handling errors from the Mono and converting to a new object type so I can later map as needed. Right now any unhandled errors will stop the stream. If I use onErrorReturn, then I must return the original response type (UpdateResponse), but I want to return a new type with the error details. I could use onErrorResume and return Mono.empty() but again, I want to capture the error details.
I am looking to utilize Spring's Reactive WebClient to make parallel calls to an external service which will update a user given a list of IDs and then collect any errors / successes into a single response I can then return to the caller. All the error handling I've seen so far, doesn't allow me to map the data to a new response, so unsure how to handle this.
// This is the class where I want to collect and map successes/errors to a new response object
public class UpdateUserService {
private final UpdateUserClient updateUserClient;
public Mono<UpdateUserResponse> updateUser(List<Long> userIds, UpdateUserRequest request) {
// Parallel calls to updateUserClient
Mono<UpdateUserResponse> resp = Flux.fromIterable(userIds)
.flatMap(userId -> updateUserClient.updatUser(userId, request))
// How to maps successes and handle errors here to UpdateUserResponse?
...
return resp;
}
}
// Supporting classes
public class UpdateUserResponse {
List<UpdateUserResult> results;
}
public class UpdateUserResult {
Long id;
Boolean success;
String message;
}
public class UpdateUserClient {
private final WebClient webClient;
private final String path;
public Mono<UpdateResponse> updatUser(Long userId, UpdateUserRequest request) {
return webClient.put()
.uri(uriBuilder -> uriBuilder
.path(path)
.queryParam("userId", userID)
.build())
.body(request, UpdateUserRequest.class)
.accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
.retrieve()
.bodyToMono(UpdateResponse.class); // UpdateResponse just contains a success boolean
}
}