[FLINK-23711] Add an asynchronous HTTP transport for the RequestReply function

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: statefun-3.1.0
• Component/s: Stateful Functions
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Igal Shilman
• Reporter: Igal Shilman
• Created: 10/Aug/21 15:37
• Updated: 15/Aug/21 01:37
• Resolved: 15/Aug/21 01:36

Description

Currently StateFun uses a synchronous threaded HTTP client to dispatch invocations to the remote functions. This is highly undesirable, and can be easily changed. We already use and shade Netty.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #252