add cookies/headers to the RESTClient decorator

[a-simoes]

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I have a lot of tests that use the RESTClient decorator.

Due to some security concerns, now we need to exchange a session cookie. This cookie must remain the same between requests on some operations.

It would be nice if we can use something like RESTClient(headers = {header1, header2}) public static MyService myService;

I know it is possible to use the RestClientBuilder, but I do prefer the decorator approach!

[aguibert]

hi @a-simoes, thanks for raising this idea. Are the headers you need to add static/final strings? Keep in mind that annotation values must be constants. If you generate the header values at runtime, or even if they have to be created by a function, then they cannot be used in annotation attributes because they are not constant values.

[a-simoes]

Hi @aguibert . I understand that only static/final strings could be added and not runtime values. That is completely ok. For this particular case, it will work perfectly.

[appiepollo14]

@a-simoes are you still interested in this enhancement? Have you considered using RestAssured to overcome this issue?

[a-simoes]

nop. I ended up creating a custom REST client.