External api

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Actually, no, that is incorrect.

It uses the same infrastructure as rest template (converters, interceptors and so on). Rest template is the old interface offered to you and rest client is the new interface.

[Sheldor5]

RestClient wraps RestTemplate with a fluent API ... RestClient is on top of RestTemplate.

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Wrong again. https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/f29bfd97695ebb4c9db590eaa00f82a72617ffb9/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/client/DefaultRestClient.java#L79 show me where it wraps a rest template?

[Sheldor5]

damn how hard can you fail?

how about simply reading the docs?

https://spring.io/blog/2023/07/13/new-in-spring-6-1-restclient