How to handle exceptions thrown while rendering a view in Spring MVC?

Question

I have a Spring MVC application which uses FreeMarker as View technology (But maybe the view technology doesn\'t really matter for my question). I need to intercept all exce

Answer 1

You could extends the DispatcherServlet.

In your web.xml replace the generic DispatcherServlet for your own class.

    springmvc
    com.controller.generic.DispatcherServletHandler
    1

Later create your own class DispatcherServletHandler and extends from DispatcherServlet:

public class DispatcherServletHandler extends DispatcherServlet {

    private static final String ERROR = "error";
    private static final String VIEW_ERROR_PAGE = "/WEB-INF/views/error/view-error.jsp";

    @Override
    protected void doService(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
        try{
            super.doService(request, response);
        } catch(Exception ex) {
            request.setAttribute(ERROR, ex);
            request.getRequestDispatcher(VIEW_ERROR_PAGE).forward(request, response);
        }
     }
}

And in that page we only have to show a message to the user.