Spring Cloud Netflix Support Spring RestClient as TransportClientFactory and make it the default implementation

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Complements: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-netflix/issues/4255

Consider implementing RestClientTransportClientFactory to complement existing RestTemplateClientFactory (not exactly based on RestTemplate), which is kind of deprecated.

https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/integration/rest-clients.html#rest-restclient

See note: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/integration/rest-clients.html#rest-resttemplate

Comment From: OlgaMaciaszek

Makes sense.

Comment From: injae-kim

FYI, PR: https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-netflix/pull/4281

Comment From: OlgaMaciaszek

Thanks, @injae-kim. @heowc is working on this now.

Comment From: OlgaMaciaszek

Update: there's still some work related to adjusting config in TransportClientFactories, that I'm working on here that has to be modified in order for RestClient to be used as the default.

Comment From: heowc

Update: there's still some work related to adjusting config in TransportClientFactories, that I'm working on here that has to be modified in order for RestClient to be used as the default.

Thanks for looking into it. I think it can be modified with RestClient.Builder, but I'm curious as to why it needs to be added. 🤔

Comment From: OlgaMaciaszek

We need to integrate with Netflix's native way of handling connections through TransportClientFactories, otherwise there'll be a TransportException.

com.netflix.discovery.shared.transport.TransportException: Cannot execute request on any known server
    at com.netflix.discovery.shared.transport.decorator.RetryableEurekaHttpClient.execute(RetryableEurekaHttpClient.java:112) ~[eureka-client-2.0.4.jar:2.0.4]
    at com.netflix.discovery.shared.transport.decorator.EurekaHttpClientDecorator.register(EurekaHttpClientDecorator.java:56) ~[eureka-client-2.0.4.jar:2.0.4]
    at com.netflix.discovery.shared.transport.decorator.EurekaHttpClientDecorator$1.execute(EurekaHttpClientDecorator.java:59) ~[eureka-client-2.0.4.jar:2.0.4]
    at com.netflix.discovery.shared.transport.decorator.SessionedEurekaHttpClient.execute(SessionedEurekaHttpClient.java:76) ~[eureka-client-2.0.4.jar:2.0.4]
    at com.netflix.discovery.shared.transport.decorator.EurekaHttpClientDecorator.register(EurekaHttpClientDecorator.java:56) ~[eureka-client-2.0.4.jar:2.0.4]
    at com.netflix.discovery.DiscoveryClient.register(DiscoveryClient.java:828) ~[eureka-client-2.0.4.jar:2.0.4]
    at com.netflix.discovery.InstanceInfoReplicator.run(InstanceInfoReplicator.java:125) ~[eureka-client-2.0.4.jar:2.0.4]
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:572) ~[na:na]
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run$$$capture(FutureTask.java:317) ~[na:na]
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java) ~[na:na]