Can a cache back WebClient so making Conditional GETs is easy

[samsamsam <po...@gmail.com>]

I read in one of Sergey's blog mentioning that WebClient acts as a browser.
It even has back(), reset(), forward() etc.

Doesn't it make sense to somehow plugin a cache(ehcache?) that holds the
response and expires/max-age/etag/last-modified headers and intelligently
query the backend using a Conditional GET and take care of 304s elegantly?
Or is there a way to accomplish this already?

If not, I may need to write some boilerplate code, which I'm trying to
avoid.

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Re: Can a cache back WebClient so making Conditional GETs is easy

[Sergey Beryozkin <sb...@gmail.com>]

Hi
On 26/09/11 05:38, samsamsam wrote:
> I read in one of Sergey's blog mentioning that WebClient acts as a browser.
> It even has back(), reset(), forward() etc.
>

On reflection, given some discussions we've had recently about different 
forms of client API, I think it can be more accurate to say that in CXF 
JAX-RS client API we attempt to capture the usual experience of the user 
browsing the web, WebClient kind of tries to impersonate a human user 
and emulate the way the user 'moves' in the browser and selects actions

> Doesn't it make sense to somehow plugin a cache(ehcache?) that holds the
> response and expires/max-age/etag/last-modified headers and intelligently
> query the backend using a Conditional GET and take care of 304s elegantly?
> Or is there a way to accomplish this already?
>
> If not, I may need to write some boilerplate code, which I'm trying to
> avoid.
>
That can probably implemented as a CXF feature (a combination of in/out 
interceptors)... If you have some boilerplate code in place then may be 
we can ship such a feature ?

Thanks, Sergey

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