Spring Boot (Microservice) - Inter service call

Generally, inter service call more common, when we develop a microservice application. So in this artical, I'm going to explain, how to use RestTemplate to call another service.

We have eurekaServer, zuulServer, clientServer, serverServer. Initially, we need to register our all servers with the eurekaServer.

zuulServer register as proxyService

clientServer register as oneService

serverServer register as twoService

twoService has a end-point as below:

 http method: PUT

 url: /api/person/{personId}/bank

this end-point is going to update the bank information in particulate person and we need to pass the bank details in the body. As below, you can call above end-point in twoService from oneService.

    @Autowired 

    private final RestTemplate restTemplate;

    @Autowired 

    private final EurekaClient eurekaClient;




   .....

   .....



    public CustomResponseMessageDTO method() {

     ....

        String endPoint = "/api/person/{personId}/bank"

        HttpEntity<BankDTO> requestEntity = new HttpEntity<>(bank_information_BankDTO_object);

        Map<String, String> param = new HashMap<>();

  param.put("personId", "person_id_should_pass");

        Application application = eurekaClient.getApplication(twoService);

        InstanceInfo instanceInfo = application.getInstances().get(0);

        String url = "http://" + instanceInfo.getIPAddr() + ":" + instanceInfo.getPort() + endPoint;

        ResponseEntity<CustomResponseMessageDTO> exchange = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.PUT, requestEntity, CustomResponseMessageDTO.class, param);

        return exchange.getBody(); // this return the CustomResponseMessageDTO object.

    }

....

As above, you can pass the message body using HttpEntity and url paramerter using HashMap.

If you need to pass the header you can add the header to the HttpEntity as below

HttpEntity<BankDTO> requestEntity = new HttpEntity<>(bank_information_BankDTO_object, HttpHeaders_object);

Enjoy..!!!