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FR: Support for Spring WebClient

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, spring
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start with the Spring WebClient call shown in the issue and inspect the agent's existing HTTP client instrumentation entry points; no repository file or test is named. Done means a downstream WebClient request carries the X-Ray trace header, with the behavior covered by an appropriate test.

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Description

enhancement
FR: Support for Spring WebClient

In my sample application using Spring WebClient with X-Ray Java agent auto-instrumentation, the trace header is not injected into the http header.

This is the code block for the downstream http call using Spring webclient

import org.springframework.web.reactive.function.client.WebClient;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestHeader;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestParam;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@RestController
@RequiredArgsConstructor
@Slf4j
public class GoodbyeController {

  private final WebClient additionWebClient;

  @GetMapping("/goodbye")
  public ResponseEntity<?> goodbye() throws InterruptedException {

      MathResult addResult =
          this.additionWebClient
              .get()
              .uri(
                  uri ->
                      uri.path("/add")
                          .queryParam("x", Long.toString(x))
                          .queryParam("y", Long.toString(y))
                          .build())
              .retrieve()
              .bodyToMono(MathResult.class)
              .block();
   }
}

In the downstream http request handler, I printed out the request header and found that no trace id,

2021-03-04 16:19:18.841 INFO [Addition App,604108865e2cf420e5d967d9c6dc0ec3,e5d967d9c6dc0ec3,true] 25 --- [nio-8080-exec-8] c.g.t.s.tracingpoc.AdditionController : Starting to add... x: [100], y: [1000]. RequestHeaders: [{accept-encoding=gzip, user-agent=ReactorNetty/0.9.8.RELEASE, host=<redacted>:8080, accept=*/*}]

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