Deep Dive into Spring Cloud OpenFeign: Architecture, Real‑World Cases, and Unit Testing
This article explores how Spring Cloud OpenFeign enables elegant inter‑service calls by replacing low‑level HttpClient code with declarative interfaces, detailing the scanning and registration process, dynamic proxy creation, contract parsing, encoder/decoder mechanics, load‑balancer integration, practical examples, common pitfalls, unit‑testing strategies, and interview‑style self‑assessment.
