[[webflux-client-attributes]]
= Attributes

You can add attributes to a request. This is convenient if you want to pass information
through the filter chain and influence the behavior of filters for a given request.
For example:

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Java::
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	WebClient client = WebClient.builder()
			.filter((request, next) -> {
				Optional<Object> usr = request.attribute("myAttribute");
				// ...
			})
			.build();

	client.get().uri("https://example.org/")
			.attribute("myAttribute", "...")
			.retrieve()
			.bodyToMono(Void.class);

		}
----

Kotlin::
+
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	val client = WebClient.builder()
			.filter { request, _ ->
				val usr = request.attributes()["myAttribute"];
				// ...
			}
			.build()

		client.get().uri("https://example.org/")
				.attribute("myAttribute", "...")
				.retrieve()
				.awaitBody<Unit>()
----
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Note that you can configure a `defaultRequest` callback globally at the
`WebClient.Builder` level which lets you insert attributes into all requests,
which could be used for example in a Spring MVC application to populate
request attributes based on `ThreadLocal` data.


