Trigger 404 in Spring-MVC controller?

Question

How do I get a Spring 3.0 controller to trigger a 404?

I have a controller with @RequestMapping(value = \"/**\", method = RequestMethod.GET) and for som

Answer 1

I'd recommend throwing HttpClientErrorException, like this

@RequestMapping(value = "/sample/")
public void sample() {
    if (somethingIsWrong()) {
        throw new HttpClientErrorException(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
    }
}

You must remember that this can be done only before anything is written to servlet output stream.