Spring Web Services - Exception Skipping ExceptionResolver

Question

I have a SOAP service, the request and responses work as expected with good input, if I specify bad input for an XML element

in request body:

...
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Answer 1

The solution I could come up with is to override the doService method in the MessageDispatcherServlet and capture the exception, then render a custom response. This might not be the best solution for you, but it works for me, hope this helps!

public class CustomMessageDispatcherServlet extends MessageDispatcherServlet {

protected void doService(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
    try {
        super.doService(request, response);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        String error = e.getMessage();
        String errorXml = "" +
                                "" +
                                    "" +
                                        "" +
                                            "SOAP-ENV:Client" +
                                            "" + error +
                                        "" +
                                    "" +
                                "";
        response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
        response.setContentType("text/xml");
        response.getWriter().write(errorXml);
        response.getWriter().flush();
    }
}

}

You might want to catch only the exceptions you want to handle.

Replace org.springframework.ws.transport.http.MessageDispatcherServlet with your CustomMessageDispatcherServlet in the web.xml file.

    web-services
    CustomMessageDispatcherServlet