Saturday 2 April 2016

Testing & error handling with Spring + Reactor

Introduction

As we saw in the previous post, the whole idea of reactive programming floats around two concepts: Data comes in asynchronous streams and those streams are immutable, so any modification results in new streams being created.
These facts makes the code not very intuitive and it is even worse when it comes to testing (even more if we are interacting with external resources, like a Web Service).
To help in the task, Spring and Reactor come with some handy tools that can be applied to simplify the development and testing.

First, let´s take a look at the scenario being tested:

Sequence diagram of the "production" code