Jersey/Jackson Exception problem with ExceptionMapper

Question

I\'m using Jersey to provide a java REST service to the outside world. I offer some functions that take JSON and I use the Jackson framework in combination with jersey to conver

Answer 1

I ran into a similar issue a while back while using Jackson and Apache CXF. The exception mappers weren't called if the exception didn't happen in my JAX-RS method and instead happened in the JacksonJsonProvider. The solution in my case was to extend JacksonJsonProvider, catch the specific Jackson json exceptions, and rethrow them as WebApplicationException.

Here's my overriden readFrom method for my extended JacksonJsonProvider:

    @Override
    public Object readFrom(Class