Docs: Explain closing the high level client

It looks like we weren't clear on when and why you should close the high
level client and folks were closing it after every request which is not
efficient. This explains why you should close the client and when so
this shouldn't be as common.

Closes #32001
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Nik Everett 2018-07-12 16:22:42 -04:00
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The high-level client will internally create the low-level client used to
perform requests based on the provided builder, and manage its lifecycle.
The high-level client instance needs to be closed when no longer needed so that
all the resources used by it get properly released, as well as the underlying
http client instance and its threads. This can be done through the `close`
method, which will close the internal `RestClient` instance.
perform requests based on the provided builder. That low-level client
maintains a pool of connections and starts some threads so you should
close the high-level client when you are well and truly done with
it and it will in turn close the internal low-level client to free those
resources. This can be done through the `close`:
["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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