Spring Cloud Openfeign Default request header headers overwriten with specific client configuration and shared by all clients

Spring Cloud version: 4.0.6

When defining some configuration using the default client all the clients share the same "default request headers" with the merge of all configurations.

IMO the problem was introduced by the commit 2b07f213c87883a09b731d2dc7200b2ca2e7b07b Specifically by on line 328 by taking the default client defaultRequestHeaders and then on line 330 modifying with the defaultRequestHeaders from the specific client configuration if the clientConfig is not null.

Actual code:

Map<String, Collection<String>> defaultRequestHeaders = defaultConfig != null
        ? defaultConfig.getDefaultRequestHeaders() : new HashMap<>();
if (clientConfig != null) {
    defaultRequestHeaders.putAll(clientConfig.getDefaultRequestHeaders());
}
if (!defaultRequestHeaders.isEmpty()) {
    addDefaultRequestHeaders(defaultRequestHeaders, builder);
}

I believe that doing a deep copy of the map should be enough to fix.

Something like:

Map<String, Collection<String>> defaultRequestHeaders = new HashMap<>();
if (defaultConfig != null) {
    defaultConfig.getDefaultRequestHeaders().forEach((k, v) -> defaultRequestHeaders.put(k, new ArrayList<>(v)));
}
if (clientConfig != null) {
    clientConfig.getDefaultRequestHeaders().forEach((k, v) -> defaultRequestHeaders.put(k, new ArrayList<>(v)));
}
if (!defaultRequestHeaders.isEmpty()) {
    addDefaultRequestHeaders(defaultRequestHeaders, builder);
}

In my tests I found that version 4.0.4 and 4.1.0 are not affected.

Sample code application.yaml

spring:
  cloud:
    openfeign:
      client:
        config:
          default:
            # could be any property as long as the *default* is not null on the configuration properties.
            logger-level: FULL 
          testClientA:
            default-request-headers:
              x-custom-header: "from client A"
          testClientB:
            default-request-headers:
              x-custom-header: "from client B"

Controller.java

@RestController
public class Controller {
  @GetMapping(value = "/a", produces = APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
  public Map<String, List<String>> headersA(@RequestHeader HttpHeaders headers) {
    return new HashMap<>(headers);
  }

  @GetMapping(value = "/b", produces = APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
  public Map<String, List<String>> headersB(@RequestHeader HttpHeaders headers) {
    return new HashMap<>(headers);
  }
}

TestClientA.java

@FeignClient(name = "testClientA", url = "http://localhost:8080", contextId = "testClientA")
public interface TestClientA {

  @GetMapping("/a")
  Map<String, List<String>> headersA();
}

TestClientB.java

@FeignClient(name = "testClientB", url = "http://localhost:8080", contextId = "testClientB")
public interface TestClientB {
  @GetMapping("/b")
  Map<String, List<String>> headersB();
}

Tests.java

@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.DEFINED_PORT)
class Tests {
  @Autowired
  private TestClientA testClientA;
  @Autowired
  private TestClientB testClientB;

  @Test
  void testClientA() {
    assertThat(testClientA.headersA())
            .isNotNull()
            .contains(entry("x-custom-header", List.of("from client A")));

  }

  @Test
  void testClientB() {
    assertThat(testClientB.headersB())
            .isNotNull()
            .contains(entry("x-custom-header", List.of("from client B")));

  }
}

Comment From: OlgaMaciaszek

Hi @martinchaves, thanks for reporting the bug. Will fix it.