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Add SSE Support to RestClient
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Since Sep 19, 2026.
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type: enhancement
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Description
In Spring WebClient is the only supported way to consume SSE streams. However, using WebClient introduce a reactive streams increasing application complexity.
Ideally RestClient can support the consumption of SSE streams allowing developers to keep codebases simple.
Spring offers reactive and non-reactive facilities for producing SSE events. Adding the ability to consume SSE streams in a reactive and non-reactive ways bring the server side and client side experience to parity.
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