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

javax.ws.rs.ext.ExceptionMapper is your friend.

Source: https://jersey.java.net/documentation/latest/representations.html#d0e6665

Example:

@Provider
public class EntityNotFoundMapper implements ExceptionMapper {
  public Response toResponse(javax.persistence.EntityNotFoundException ex) {
    return Response.status(404).
      entity(ex.getMessage()).
      type("text/plain").
      build();
  }
}