how to use Spring Cloud Gateway without Reactive stuff? - spring

Question

I want to create a new project with Spring Cloud Gateway but I don't want all the reactive functionality. for me, it will be fine if the other microservice will be blocking I/O and not Reactive.
how can I do that?
let's say I'm implementing cloud gateway as reactive and all the other MS's as blocking, its a good approach? what are the cons of that?

Answer 1

Spring cloud gateway are built on top of spring webflux and netty and this cannot be changed.
From the reference docs:
Spring Cloud Gateway is built on Spring Boot 2.x, Spring WebFlux, and
Project Reactor. As a consequence, many of the familiar synchronous
libraries (Spring Data and Spring Security, for example) and patterns
you know may not apply when you use Spring Cloud Gateway. If you are
unfamiliar with these projects, we suggest you begin by reading their
documentation to familiarize yourself with some of the new concepts
before working with Spring Cloud Gateway.
Spring Cloud Gateway requires the Netty runtime provided by Spring
Boot and Spring Webflux. It does not work in a traditional Servlet
Container or when built as a WAR.
Spring Cloud Reference Docs
It is perfectly acceptable for a non blocking IO application to make network calls to a blocking IO application. The non blocking IO app will still have all of the benefits of having non blocking IO. It will not consume resources while waiting for responses from network calls to blocking IO applications and in theory should consume less resources and be able to handle more concurrent calls as a result.

Answer 2

Add this :
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
then set :
spring.main.web-application-type=reactive
in application.properties