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This version is still in development and is not considered stable yet. For the latest stable version, please use Spring Framework 6.1.13! |
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This version is still in development and is not considered stable yet. For the latest stable version, please use Spring Framework 6.1.13! |
The WebFlux Java configuration declares the components that are required to process
requests with annotated controllers or functional endpoints, and it offers an API to
customize the configuration. That means you do not need to understand the underlying
beans created by the Java configuration. However, if you want to understand them,
you can see them in WebFluxConfigurationSupport or read more about what they are
in Special Bean Types.
For more advanced customizations, not available in the configuration API, you can gain full control over the configuration through the Advanced Configuration Mode.
Enabling WebFlux Config
You can use the @EnableWebFlux annotation in your Java config, as the following example shows:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig {
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig
The preceding example registers a number of Spring WebFlux infrastructure beans and adapts to dependencies available on the classpath — for JSON, XML, and others.
WebFlux config API
In your Java configuration, you can implement the WebFluxConfigurer interface,
as the following example shows:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
// Implement configuration methods...
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
// Implement configuration methods...
}
Conversion, formatting
By default, formatters for various number and date types are installed, along with support
for customization via @NumberFormat and @DateTimeFormat on fields.
To register custom formatters and converters in Java config, use the following:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public void addFormatters(FormatterRegistry registry) {
// ...
}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
override fun addFormatters(registry: FormatterRegistry) {
// ...
}
}
By default Spring WebFlux considers the request Locale when parsing and formatting date values. This works for forms where dates are represented as Strings with "input" form fields. For "date" and "time" form fields, however, browsers use a fixed format defined in the HTML spec. For such cases date and time formatting can be customized as follows:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public void addFormatters(FormatterRegistry registry) {
DateTimeFormatterRegistrar registrar = new DateTimeFormatterRegistrar();
registrar.setUseIsoFormat(true);
registrar.registerFormatters(registry);
}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
override fun addFormatters(registry: FormatterRegistry) {
val registrar = DateTimeFormatterRegistrar()
registrar.setUseIsoFormat(true)
registrar.registerFormatters(registry)
}
}
See FormatterRegistrar SPI
and the FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean for more information on when to
use FormatterRegistrar implementations.
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See FormatterRegistrar SPI
and the FormattingConversionServiceFactoryBean for more information on when to
use FormatterRegistrar implementations.
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Validation
By default, if Bean Validation is present
on the classpath (for example, the Hibernate Validator), the LocalValidatorFactoryBean
is registered as a global validator for use with @Valid and
@Validated on @Controller method arguments.
In your Java configuration, you can customize the global Validator instance,
as the following example shows:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public Validator getValidator() {
// ...
}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
override fun getValidator(): Validator {
// ...
}
}
Note that you can also register Validator implementations locally,
as the following example shows:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Controller
public class MyController {
@InitBinder
protected void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder) {
binder.addValidators(new FooValidator());
}
}
@Controller
class MyController {
@InitBinder
protected fun initBinder(binder: WebDataBinder) {
binder.addValidators(FooValidator())
}
}
If you need to have a LocalValidatorFactoryBean injected somewhere, create a bean and
mark it with @Primary in order to avoid conflict with the one declared in the MVC config.
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If you need to have a LocalValidatorFactoryBean injected somewhere, create a bean and
mark it with @Primary in order to avoid conflict with the one declared in the MVC config.
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Content Type Resolvers
You can configure how Spring WebFlux determines the requested media types for
@Controller instances from the request. By default, only the Accept header is checked,
but you can also enable a query parameter-based strategy.
The following example shows how to customize the requested content type resolution:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public void configureContentTypeResolver(RequestedContentTypeResolverBuilder builder) {
// ...
}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
override fun configureContentTypeResolver(builder: RequestedContentTypeResolverBuilder) {
// ...
}
}
HTTP message codecs
The following example shows how to customize how the request and response body are read and written:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public void configureHttpMessageCodecs(ServerCodecConfigurer configurer) {
configurer.defaultCodecs().maxInMemorySize(512 * 1024);
}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
override fun configureHttpMessageCodecs(configurer: ServerCodecConfigurer) {
configurer.defaultCodecs().maxInMemorySize(512 * 1024)
}
}
ServerCodecConfigurer provides a set of default readers and writers. You can use it to add
more readers and writers, customize the default ones, or replace the default ones completely.
For Jackson JSON and XML, consider using
Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder,
which customizes Jackson’s default properties with the following ones:
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DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIESis disabled. -
MapperFeature.DEFAULT_VIEW_INCLUSIONis disabled.
It also automatically registers the following well-known modules if they are detected on the classpath:
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jackson-datatype-joda: Support for Joda-Time types. -
jackson-datatype-jsr310: Support for Java 8 Date and Time API types. -
jackson-datatype-jdk8: Support for other Java 8 types, such asOptional. -
jackson-module-kotlin: Support for Kotlin classes and data classes.
View Resolvers
The following example shows how to configure view resolution:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public void configureViewResolvers(ViewResolverRegistry registry) {
// ...
}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
override fun configureViewResolvers(registry: ViewResolverRegistry) {
// ...
}
}
The ViewResolverRegistry has shortcuts for view technologies with which the Spring Framework
integrates. The following example uses FreeMarker (which also requires configuring the
underlying FreeMarker view technology):
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public void configureViewResolvers(ViewResolverRegistry registry) {
registry.freeMarker();
}
// Configure Freemarker...
@Bean
public FreeMarkerConfigurer freeMarkerConfigurer() {
FreeMarkerConfigurer configurer = new FreeMarkerConfigurer();
configurer.setTemplateLoaderPath("classpath:/templates");
return configurer;
}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
override fun configureViewResolvers(registry: ViewResolverRegistry) {
registry.freeMarker()
}
// Configure Freemarker...
@Bean
fun freeMarkerConfigurer() = FreeMarkerConfigurer().apply {
setTemplateLoaderPath("classpath:/templates")
}
}
You can also plug in any ViewResolver implementation, as the following example shows:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public void configureViewResolvers(ViewResolverRegistry registry) {
ViewResolver resolver = ... ;
registry.viewResolver(resolver);
}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
override fun configureViewResolvers(registry: ViewResolverRegistry) {
val resolver: ViewResolver = ...
registry.viewResolver(resolver
}
}
To support Content Negotiation and rendering other formats
through view resolution (besides HTML), you can configure one or more default views based
on the HttpMessageWriterView implementation, which accepts any of the available
Codecs from spring-web. The following example shows how to do so:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public void configureViewResolvers(ViewResolverRegistry registry) {
registry.freeMarker();
Jackson2JsonEncoder encoder = new Jackson2JsonEncoder();
registry.defaultViews(new HttpMessageWriterView(encoder));
}
// ...
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
override fun configureViewResolvers(registry: ViewResolverRegistry) {
registry.freeMarker()
val encoder = Jackson2JsonEncoder()
registry.defaultViews(HttpMessageWriterView(encoder))
}
// ...
}
See View Technologies for more on the view technologies that are integrated with Spring WebFlux.
Static Resources
This option provides a convenient way to serve static resources from a list of
Resource-based locations.
In the next example, given a request that starts with /resources, the relative path is
used to find and serve static resources relative to /static on the classpath. Resources
are served with a one-year future expiration to ensure maximum use of the browser cache
and a reduction in HTTP requests made by the browser. The Last-Modified header is also
evaluated and, if present, a 304 status code is returned. The following listing shows
the example:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**")
.addResourceLocations("/public", "classpath:/static/")
.setCacheControl(CacheControl.maxAge(365, TimeUnit.DAYS));
}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
override fun addResourceHandlers(registry: ResourceHandlerRegistry) {
registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**")
.addResourceLocations("/public", "classpath:/static/")
.setCacheControl(CacheControl.maxAge(365, TimeUnit.DAYS))
}
}
The resource handler also supports a chain of
ResourceResolver implementations and
ResourceTransformer implementations,
which can be used to create a toolchain for working with optimized resources.
You can use the VersionResourceResolver for versioned resource URLs based on an MD5 hash
computed from the content, a fixed application version, or other information. A
ContentVersionStrategy (MD5 hash) is a good choice with some notable exceptions (such as
JavaScript resources used with a module loader).
The following example shows how to use VersionResourceResolver in your Java configuration:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**")
.addResourceLocations("/public/")
.resourceChain(true)
.addResolver(new VersionResourceResolver().addContentVersionStrategy("/**"));
}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
override fun addResourceHandlers(registry: ResourceHandlerRegistry) {
registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**")
.addResourceLocations("/public/")
.resourceChain(true)
.addResolver(VersionResourceResolver().addContentVersionStrategy("/**"))
}
}
You can use ResourceUrlProvider to rewrite URLs and apply the full chain of resolvers and
transformers (for example, to insert versions). The WebFlux configuration provides a ResourceUrlProvider
so that it can be injected into others.
Unlike Spring MVC, at present, in WebFlux, there is no way to transparently rewrite static
resource URLs, since there are no view technologies that can make use of a non-blocking chain
of resolvers and transformers. When serving only local resources, the workaround is to use
ResourceUrlProvider directly (for example, through a custom element) and block.
Note that, when using both EncodedResourceResolver (for example, Gzip, Brotli encoded) and
VersionedResourceResolver, they must be registered in that order, to ensure content-based
versions are always computed reliably based on the unencoded file.
For WebJars, versioned URLs like
/webjars/jquery/1.2.0/jquery.min.js are the recommended and most efficient way to use them.
The related resource location is configured out of the box with Spring Boot (or can be configured
manually via ResourceHandlerRegistry) and does not require to add the
org.webjars:webjars-locator-core dependency.
Version-less URLs like /webjars/jquery/jquery.min.js are supported through the
WebJarsResourceResolver which is automatically registered when the
org.webjars:webjars-locator-core library is present on the classpath, at the cost of a
classpath scanning that could slow down application startup. The resolver can re-write URLs to
include the version of the jar and can also match against incoming URLs without versions — for example, from /webjars/jquery/jquery.min.js to /webjars/jquery/1.2.0/jquery.min.js.
The Java configuration based on ResourceHandlerRegistry provides further options
for fine-grained control, e.g. last-modified behavior and optimized resource resolution.
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The Java configuration based on ResourceHandlerRegistry provides further options
for fine-grained control, e.g. last-modified behavior and optimized resource resolution.
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Path Matching
You can customize options related to path matching. For details on the individual options, see the
PathMatchConfigurer javadoc.
The following example shows how to use PathMatchConfigurer:
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Java
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Kotlin
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
import org.springframework.web.method.HandlerTypePredicate;
import org.springframework.web.reactive.config.EnableWebFlux;
import org.springframework.web.reactive.config.PathMatchConfigurer;
import org.springframework.web.reactive.config.WebFluxConfigurer;
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public void configurePathMatching(PathMatchConfigurer configurer) {
configurer.addPathPrefix(
"/api", HandlerTypePredicate.forAnnotation(RestController.class));
}
}
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController
import org.springframework.web.method.HandlerTypePredicate
import org.springframework.web.reactive.config.EnableWebFlux
import org.springframework.web.reactive.config.PathMatchConfigurer
import org.springframework.web.reactive.config.WebFluxConfigurer
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
override fun configurePathMatching(configurer: PathMatchConfigurer) {
configurer.addPathPrefix(
"/api", HandlerTypePredicate.forAnnotation(RestController::class.java))
}
}
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Spring WebFlux relies on a parsed representation of the request path called
Spring WebFlux also does not support suffix pattern matching, unlike in Spring MVC, where we are also recommend moving away from reliance on it. |
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Spring WebFlux relies on a parsed representation of the request path called
Spring WebFlux also does not support suffix pattern matching, unlike in Spring MVC, where we are also recommend moving away from reliance on it. |
Blocking Execution
The WebFlux Java config allows you to customize blocking execution in WebFlux.
You can have blocking controller methods called on a separate thread by providing
an AsyncTaskExecutor such as the
VirtualThreadTaskExecutor
as follows:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public void configureBlockingExecution(BlockingExecutionConfigurer configurer) {
AsyncTaskExecutor executor = ...
configurer.setExecutor(executor);
}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
fun configureBlockingExecution(configurer: BlockingExecutionConfigurer) {
val executor = ...
configurer.setExecutor(executor)
}
}
By default, controller methods whose return type is not recognized by the configured
ReactiveAdapterRegistry are considered blocking, but you can set a custom controller
method predicate via BlockingExecutionConfigurer.
WebSocketService
The WebFlux Java config declares of a WebSocketHandlerAdapter bean which provides
support for the invocation of WebSocket handlers. That means all that remains to do in
order to handle a WebSocket handshake request is to map a WebSocketHandler to a URL
via SimpleUrlHandlerMapping.
In some cases it may be necessary to create the WebSocketHandlerAdapter bean with a
provided WebSocketService service which allows configuring WebSocket server properties.
For example:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
public class WebConfig implements WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
public WebSocketService getWebSocketService() {
TomcatRequestUpgradeStrategy strategy = new TomcatRequestUpgradeStrategy();
strategy.setMaxSessionIdleTimeout(0L);
return new HandshakeWebSocketService(strategy);
}
}
@Configuration
@EnableWebFlux
class WebConfig : WebFluxConfigurer {
@Override
fun webSocketService(): WebSocketService {
val strategy = TomcatRequestUpgradeStrategy().apply {
setMaxSessionIdleTimeout(0L)
}
return HandshakeWebSocketService(strategy)
}
}
Advanced Configuration Mode
@EnableWebFlux imports DelegatingWebFluxConfiguration that:
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Provides default Spring configuration for WebFlux applications
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detects and delegates to
WebFluxConfigurerimplementations to customize that configuration.
For advanced mode, you can remove @EnableWebFlux and extend directly from
DelegatingWebFluxConfiguration instead of implementing WebFluxConfigurer,
as the following example shows:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Configuration
public class WebConfig extends DelegatingWebFluxConfiguration {
// ...
}
@Configuration
class WebConfig : DelegatingWebFluxConfiguration {
// ...
}
You can keep existing methods in WebConfig, but you can now also override bean declarations
from the base class and still have any number of other WebMvcConfigurer implementations on
the classpath.