spring-cloud/spring-cloud-gateway

Modify Request Body for a GET request

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#1,147 opened on Jul 3, 2019

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Description

We currently have custom code for modifying request body which works but I want to move to the standard ModifyRequestBodyGatewayFilterFactory.

We have a scenario where Spring Cloud Gateway received a GET request and we need call an internal GraphQL api with a POST and a request body.

ModifyRequestBodyGatewayFilterFactory works great if there is a body present in the original request but doesn't apply the rewriteFunction when there is no body on GET requests.

I am using v2.1.2.RELEASE and I have hacked together a change to ModifyRequestBodyGatewayFilterFactory which works for me:

Mono<?> modifiedBody = serverRequest.bodyToMono(inClass)
        .defaultIfEmpty("") //added this line
        .flatMap(o -> config.rewriteFunction.apply(exchange, o));

I appreciate that the ModifyRequestBodyGatewayFilterFactory is beta, but would it be possible to support adding a body for GET requests in the future?

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Inspect the ModifyRequestBodyGatewayFilterFactory class and modify the rewriteFunction application to handle GET requests without a body by adding defaultIfEmpty.
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javaspring
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backendapicloud
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