SPR-8367 - 3.1.0.M2 update of the RestTemplate for Apache HTTP Components will default to sending 2 requests on authentication and doesn't support HttpContext parameters without significant extention/rewrite

org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/client/HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest.java

@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ import java.net.URI;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
+import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
+
 import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
 import org.apache.http.HttpEntityEnclosingRequest;
 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
@@ -28,9 +31,7 @@ import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
 import org.apache.http.entity.ByteArrayEntity;
 import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;
-
+import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
-import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
-import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
 
 /**
  * {@link org.springframework.http.client.ClientHttpRequest} implementation that uses
@@ -49,10 +50,13 @@ final class HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest extends AbstractBufferingClientHttpR
 
 	private final HttpUriRequest httpRequest;
 
+    private final HttpContext httpContext;
 
-	public HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest(HttpClient httpClient, HttpUriRequest httpRequest) {
+
+    public HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest(HttpClient httpClient, HttpUriRequest httpRequest, HttpContext httpContext) {
 		this.httpClient = httpClient;
 		this.httpRequest = httpRequest;
+        this.httpContext = httpContext;
 	}
 
 
@@ -81,7 +85,7 @@ final class HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest extends AbstractBufferingClientHttpR
 			HttpEntity requestEntity = new ByteArrayEntity(bufferedOutput);
 			entityEnclosingRequest.setEntity(requestEntity);
 		}
-		HttpResponse httpResponse = this.httpClient.execute(this.httpRequest);
+		HttpResponse httpResponse = this.httpClient.execute(this.httpRequest, this.httpContext);
 		return new HttpComponentsClientHttpResponse(httpResponse);
 	}
 

org.springframework.web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/client/HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory.java

@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ package org.springframework.http.client;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URI;
 
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.DisposableBean;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
+import org.springframework.util.Assert;
+
 import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpDelete;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
@@ -35,10 +39,7 @@ import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager;
 import org.apache.http.params.CoreConnectionPNames;
-
+import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.DisposableBean;
-import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
-import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 
 /**
  * {@link org.springframework.http.client.ClientHttpRequestFactory} implementation that uses
@@ -126,11 +127,10 @@ public class HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory implements ClientHttpRequest
 		getHttpClient().getParams().setIntParameter(CoreConnectionPNames.SO_TIMEOUT, timeout);
 	}
 
-
+    public ClientHttpRequest createRequest(URI uri, HttpMethod httpMethod) throws IOException {
-	public ClientHttpRequest createRequest(URI uri, HttpMethod httpMethod) throws IOException {
 		HttpUriRequest httpRequest = createHttpUriRequest(httpMethod, uri);
 		postProcessHttpRequest(httpRequest);
-		return new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest(getHttpClient(), httpRequest);
+		return new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequest(getHttpClient(), httpRequest, createHttpContext(httpMethod, uri));
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -169,6 +169,17 @@ public class HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory implements ClientHttpRequest
 	protected void postProcessHttpRequest(HttpUriRequest request) {
 	}
 
+    /**
+     * Template methods that creates a {@link HttpContext} for the given HTTP method and URI.
+     * <p>The default implementation returns {@code null}.
+     * @param httpMethod the HTTP method
+     * @param uri the URI
+     * @return the http context
+     */
+    protected HttpContext createHttpContext(HttpMethod httpMethod, URI uri) {
+        return null;
+    }
+
 	/**
 	 * Shutdown hook that closes the underlying
 	 * {@link org.apache.http.conn.ClientConnectionManager ClientConnectionManager}'s