LoadBalancer: Add ability to eagerly create ReactiveLoadBalancerClient contexts

[Fetsivalen]

I'm migrating from the Ribbon to the Reactive Spring cloud load balancer and find out the contexts are created in the same way (through the synchronized block).
That's why it seems to me that it will be great to have the ability to create contexts eagerly.
For example, in the same way, as it is for Ribbon
https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-netflix/multi/multi_spring-cloud-ribbon.html#ribbon-child-context-eager-load

[ffroliva]

I am also merging from Ribbon to Spring Cloud Load Balancer.

I use FeignClient for the clients instead of discoveryClient or webClient.

I am getting Caused by: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out on the first request, presumably because the client was not already when the request was made. The subsequent requests work correctly.

Do I have to enable a retry mechanism?

How should I implement this?

Would something like this be sufficient?

@Configuration
public class FeigConfig {

  @Bean
  public Retryer retryer() {
    return new Retryer.Default(1000L, 1000L, 3);
  }

  @Bean
  public Logger.Level feignLoggerLevel() {
    return Logger.Level.BASIC;
  }
}

Do I have to add https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-retry in my classpath?