Use case: spring-cloud-contract project needs to autoconfigure RestTemaplate with "relaxed SSL validation" when used in tests against HTTPS wiremock stubs, but only for Apache HttpComponents. In order to do this, we need a way to get requestFactory and inspect if it's instance of HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory.
Problem: If RestTemplate is used with interceptors, getRequestFactory() will return wrapper -> InterceptingClientHttpRequestFactory which doesn't expose any methods to revel it's implementation.
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/v6.0.4/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/client/support/InterceptingHttpAccessor.java#L102-L108
We made a work-around and used reflections to get requestFactory field form RestTemplate, but We want to avoid using reflections.
Spring cloud contract issue: spring-cloud/spring-cloud-contract#1868 Spring cloud contract pull: spring-cloud/spring-cloud-contract#1869
Comment From: snicoll
This looks like this would require quite a lot of knowledge of the internals. The factory is exposed but us creating a wrapper and changing it is fair game. The wrapper could not even be public so I don't see this as a great outcome on both end.
Can we take a step back and look at the use cases rather? If some configuration of the request factory needs to happen, can't it happen upfront?
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