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  2. RESTEASY-2943

Support reactive publishers at the HttpClientEngine level

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      Currently, the HttpClientEngine supports blocking and non-blocking responses.  The latter is done via `CompletableFuture`.  One implementation of this is `ReactorNettyHttpClientEngine`.   This coupled with the `MonoRxInvoker` allows our customers to write things like this:

      webTarget.path("/foo").get().rx(MonoRxInvoker.class).map(...).subscribe()
       

      in order to achieve non-blocking HTTP client calls.  The `MonoRxInvoker` implementation converts a `CompletionStage` to a `Mono`.  This works well; however, there are some other reactor-features that we can leverage if the engine returned a `Publisher`.  They include:

      • The ability for a `Mono#timeout` set on the response to aggressively terminate the HTTP request.
      • The ability to pass a (reactor) context from client calls into reactor-based HttpClientEngines.
      • Some `CompletionStage` threading issues are avoided.  This affects us because we have some unfortunate usage of `ThreadLocal` which are very difficult to remove.

              rsigal@redhat.com Ronald Sigal
              crankydillo Samuel Cox (Inactive)
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