Jersey Exception mappers not working when jackson deserialization fails

Question

I am using Jersey 2.10 with Jackson serialization/deserialization feature in my REST API.

My idea is to make my REST API to always return a standard JSON error resp

Answer 1

I tested it with an exception mapper like below:

import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.ExceptionMapper;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;

@Provider
public class JsonProcessingExceptionMapper implements ExceptionMapper{

        public static class Error {
            public String key;
            public String message;
        }

        @Override
        public Response toResponse(JsonProcessingException exception) {
            Error error = new Error();
            error.key = "bad-json";
            error.message = exception.getMessage();
            return Response.status(Status.BAD_REQUEST).entity(error).build();
        }
}

and it worked.

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Update: changed JsonParseException to JsonProcessingException (more general)

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Update2: In order to avoid registering the unwanted mappers replace

register(org.glassfish.jersey.jackson.JacksonFeature.class);

with

register(com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs.json.JacksonJaxbJsonProvider.class);

Look at the source code of JacksonFeature and you'll understand what's happening.