Global Exception Handling in Jersey

Question

Is there a way to have global exception handling in Jersey? Instead of individual resources having try/catch blocks and then calling some method that then sanitizes all of the

Answer 1

Yes. JAX-RS has a concept of ExceptionMappers. You can create your own ExceptionMapper interface to map any exception to a response. For more info see: https://jersey.github.io/documentation/latest/representations.html#d0e6352