Pagination / Sort support in http interface client

[hesselapplications]

It would be great if http interface clients had support for:

• Page as a response type
• Pageable / Sort as request parameters

interface FooClient {
  @GetExchange("/foos")
  public fun getFoos(
    pageRequest: Pageable,
  ): Page<Foo>
}

This would bring feature parity for what is supported in controllers today. I believe spring openfeign clients support this as well

Original: spring-projects/spring-framework#32286

[pukkaone]

We have Pageable parameters on Spring Cloud OpenFeign client methods. The lack of Pageable support blocks us from switching to HTTP interface clients. I'm experimenting with this work around. Define a custom argument resolver:

public class PageableArgumentResolver implements HttpServiceArgumentResolver {

    @Override
    public boolean resolve(Object argument, MethodParameter parameter, HttpRequestValues.Builder requestValues) {
        if (!parameter.getParameterType().equals(Pageable.class)) {
            return false;
        }

        if (argument != null) {
            var pageable = (Pageable) argument;

            if (pageable.isPaged()) {
                requestValues.addRequestParameter("page", String.valueOf(pageable.getPageNumber()));
                requestValues.addRequestParameter("size", String.valueOf(pageable.getPageSize()));
            }

            Sort sort = pageable.getSort();
            if (sort.isSorted()) {
                for (Sort.Order order : sort) {
                    requestValues.addRequestParameter("sort", order.getProperty() + "," + order.getDirection().name());
                }
            }
        }

        return true;
    }
}

Invoke the HttpServiceProxyFactory.Builder customArgumentResolver method to register the custom argument resolver.

[denniseffing]

We started implementing an HTTP client using an HTTP interface client as well and just stumbled upon this issue after researching how to implement pagination.

I guess the answer is: We can't. Unfortunate 😄

So +1 for this issue.

[lmagyar89]

Hey @mp911de,

I'm facing the same issue described in this ticket. Do you plan to implement this feature? Or it is other project's scope e.g.: spring boot autoconfiguration?

Thanks,

[mp911de]

For the time being, it's in our backlog as we hadn't had any chance to come up with a design with our limited bandwidth.