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Exceptions
If an exception occurs during request mapping or is thrown from a request handler (such as
a @Controller
), the DispatcherServlet
delegates to a chain of HandlerExceptionResolver
beans to resolve the exception and provide alternative handling, which is typically an
error response.
The following table lists the available HandlerExceptionResolver
implementations:
HandlerExceptionResolver |
Description |
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A mapping between exception class names and error view names. Useful for rendering error pages in a browser application. |
Resolves exceptions raised by Spring MVC and maps them to HTTP status codes.
See also alternative |
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Resolves exceptions with the |
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Resolves exceptions by invoking an |
Chain of Resolvers
You can form an exception resolver chain by declaring multiple HandlerExceptionResolver
beans in your Spring configuration and setting their order
properties as needed.
The higher the order property, the later the exception resolver is positioned.
The contract of HandlerExceptionResolver
specifies that it can return:
-
a
ModelAndView
that points to an error view. -
An empty
ModelAndView
if the exception was handled within the resolver. -
null
if the exception remains unresolved, for subsequent resolvers to try, and, if the exception remains at the end, it is allowed to bubble up to the Servlet container.
The MVC Config automatically declares built-in resolvers for default Spring MVC
exceptions, for @ResponseStatus
annotated exceptions, and for support of
@ExceptionHandler
methods. You can customize that list or replace it.
Container Error Page
If an exception remains unresolved by any HandlerExceptionResolver
and is, therefore,
left to propagate or if the response status is set to an error status (that is, 4xx, 5xx),
Servlet containers can render a default error page in HTML. To customize the default
error page of the container, you can declare an error page mapping in web.xml
.
The following example shows how to do so:
<error-page>
<location>/error</location>
</error-page>
Given the preceding example, when an exception bubbles up or the response has an error status, the
Servlet container makes an ERROR dispatch within the container to the configured URL
(for example, /error
). This is then processed by the DispatcherServlet
, possibly mapping it
to a @Controller
, which could be implemented to return an error view name with a model
or to render a JSON response, as the following example shows:
-
Java
-
Kotlin
@RestController
public class ErrorController {
@RequestMapping(path = "/error")
public Map<String, Object> handle(HttpServletRequest request) {
Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put("status", request.getAttribute("jakarta.servlet.error.status_code"));
map.put("reason", request.getAttribute("jakarta.servlet.error.message"));
return map;
}
}
@RestController
class ErrorController {
@RequestMapping(path = ["/error"])
fun handle(request: HttpServletRequest): Map<String, Any> {
val map = HashMap<String, Any>()
map["status"] = request.getAttribute("jakarta.servlet.error.status_code")
map["reason"] = request.getAttribute("jakarta.servlet.error.message")
return map
}
}
The Servlet API does not provide a way to create error page mappings in Java. You can,
however, use both a WebApplicationInitializer and a minimal web.xml .
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