Spring MVC + DeferredResult add Hateoas stuff

Question

For the rest interface the Spring MVC + RxJava + DeferredResult returned from controllers is used.

I am thinking about adding Hateoas support to the endpoints. The natural choice would be the Spring Hateoas. The problem is that Spring Hateoas would not work in the asynchronous/multi-threading environment since it uses ThreadLocal.

Is there any way to workaround that constraint? I do not think so but maybe someone has any suggestions.

Has anyone used other APIs to add Hateoas support to the rest endpoints?

Thank you.

Answer 1

So the solution I've used is to closure in the request attributes and then apply them as part of a lift operator

public class RequestContextStashOperator<T> implements Observable.Operator<T, T> {

    private final RequestAttributes attributes;

    /**
     * Spring hateoas requires the request context to be set but observables may happen on other threads
     * This operator will reapply the context of the constructing thread on the execution thread of the subscriber
     */
    public RequestContextStashOperator() {
        attributes = RequestContextHolder.currentRequestAttributes();
    }
    @Override
    public Subscriber<? super T> call(Subscriber<? super T> subscriber) {
        return new Subscriber<T>() {
            @Override
            public void onCompleted() {
                subscriber.onCompleted();
            }

            @Override
            public void onError(Throwable e) {
                subscriber.onError(e);
            }

            @Override
            public void onNext(T t) {
                RequestContextHolder.setRequestAttributes(attributes);
                subscriber.onNext(t);
            }
        };
    }
}

which you can then use on an observable like

lift(new RequestContextStashOperator<>())

as long as the object is created in the same thread as the request. You can then use a map after in the observable chain to map your object up to being a resource and add your hateoas links in.