Return exception from JAX-RS Rest Service as JSON

Question

Is it in some way possible that an exception thrown from a rest service is returned as JSON? I have a JAX-RS Rest Service where I would like to achieve this. When I throw it

Answer 1

catch your exceptions, then build a response object in a standardized format such as

error: {
    code: 'XXX',
    status: HTTPStatus,
    message: 'my error message'
}

And send it as a response with an error status (from Response.Status, usually 4xx or 5xx)