Customizing Zuul Exception

Question

I have a scenario in Zuul where the service that the URL is routed too might be down . So the reponse body gets thrown with 500 HTTP Status and ZuulException in the JSON bod

Answer 1

We finally got this working [Coded by one of my colleague]:-

public class CustomErrorFilter extends ZuulFilter {

    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CustomErrorFilter.class);
    @Override
    public String filterType() {
        return "post";
    }

    @Override
    public int filterOrder() {
        return -1; // Needs to run before SendErrorFilter which has filterOrder == 0
    }

    @Override
    public boolean shouldFilter() {
        // only forward to errorPath if it hasn't been forwarded to already
        return RequestContext.getCurrentContext().containsKey("error.status_code");
    }

    @Override
    public Object run() {
        try {
            RequestContext ctx = RequestContext.getCurrentContext();
            Object e = ctx.get("error.exception");

            if (e != null && e instanceof ZuulException) {
                ZuulException zuulException = (ZuulException)e;
                LOG.error("Zuul failure detected: " + zuulException.getMessage(), zuulException);

                // Remove error code to prevent further error handling in follow up filters
                ctx.remove("error.status_code");

                // Populate context with new response values
                ctx.setResponseBody(“Overriding Zuul Exception Body”);
                ctx.getResponse().setContentType("application/json");
                ctx.setResponseStatusCode(500); //Can set any error code as excepted
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex) {
            LOG.error("Exception filtering in custom error filter", ex);
            ReflectionUtils.rethrowRuntimeException(ex);
        }
        return null;
    }
}