Programatically creating @Client HttpClients that are included in HttpFilters

[j1m-renwick]

My application registers or deregisters new endpoints from it as they are discovered or dropped, and as such I'm using a map of HttpClient objects to hold and update the client details. This is working using the basic HttpClient.create(myUrl) method, but requests using these clients are not being intercepted by the custom HttpClientFilter classes in my project.

Is there a better way to programatically instantiate HttpClients so they are picked up by HttpClientFilter classes or, if not, is there a way I can get these new instances to trigger these filters when requests are invoked using them?

[j1m-renwick]

I stumbled on the answer to this 5 minutes after posting, it was a load easier than I thought and just entails adding the instance to the context instead of anything more complicated like I thought it would be...doh.

HttpClient client = applicationContext.createBean(HttpClient.class, myUrl)