{"tags":[{"tag":"p","content":"Once our WebClient is configured for a specific baseUrl, we can start performing HTTP requests.\n "},{"tag":"p","content":"\n "},{"tag":"p","content":"As the internal WebClient architecture is designed for reactive and non-blocking applications, we either have to call .block() or rewrite our codebase to accept Mono<t> and Flux<t> as method return types.\n <\/t><\/t>"},{"tag":"p","content":"\n "},{"tag":"p","content":"A simple sync HTTP GET request with our previously configured WebClient looks like the following:\n "},{"tag":"p","content":""},{"tag":"textarea","content":"@Service\npublic class SimpleApiClient {\n\n private final WebClient defaultWebClient;\n \n \/\/ inject the configured WebClient @Bean from the configuration above\n public SimpleApiClient(WebClient defaultWebClient) {\n this.defaultWebClient = defaultWebClient;\n }\n\n public JsonNode getTodoFromAPI() {\n return this.defaultWebClient\n .get()\n .uri(\"\/todos\/1\")\n .retrieve()\n .bodyToMono(JsonNode.class)\n .block();\n }\n}","code_language":"java"}]}