Providing a direct binding to Reactor-Netty (HttpClient)

[smaldini]

I wonder if we could have a direct binding to reactor-netty as we progress towards maturity, more protocol support (h2, unix socket) and performance optimizations. Also I suppose it would provide less indirection than WebClient which is mostly useful when exposed directly.

[kptfh]

I think it's possible. Moreover it should allow to avoid copying of data while mapping json to objects.