how to do client side load balancing in spring integration

Question

we can add client-side load balancing in spring boot applications by,

@Bean
    @LoadBalanced
    public RestTemplate restTemplate() {
        final RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
        return restTemplate;
    }

This will take care of the microservice resolution as well. ie. identifying service by the URL like "http://service_name/api/v1/endpoint/".

Is there any similar mechanism for name resolution in Spring integration?

Have you tried to inject that `RestTemplate` into your Spring Integration HTTP Channel Adapters? It would be great to see more info where you'd like to have such a load balancing option. Perhaps we would need to introduce a generics `LoadBalancingRequestHandlerAdvice` alongside with an existing `RateLimiterRequestHandlerAdvice`, for example: https://docs.spring.io/spring-integration/docs/current/reference/html/messaging-endpoints.html#message-handler-advice-chain — Artem Bilan, Apr 28 '21 at 13:55
Hi @ArtemBilan , How can I inject the RestTemplate to the HttpRequestExecutingMessageHandler? — Sanal M, May 05 '21 at 13:10

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 05 '21 at 15:04

See this ctor for Spring Integration HTTP Outbound Channel Adapter:

/**
 * Create a handler that will send requests to the provided URI using a provided RestTemplate
 * @param uri The URI.
 * @param restTemplate The rest template.
 */
public HttpRequestExecutingMessageHandler(String uri, RestTemplate restTemplate) {

So, when you configure a @ServiceActivator (handle() in Java DSL), you just inject your load-balanced RestTemplate and everything should work as expected.

how to do client side load balancing in spring integration

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