How to write a proper global error handler with Spring MVC / Spring Boot

Question

I\'m writing a web application with Spring 4.0.4 and Spring Boot 1.0.2 using Tomcat as embedded web container and I want to implement a global exception handling which inter

Answer 1

Have a look at ControllerAdvice You could do something like this:

@ControllerAdvice
public class ExceptionHandlerController {

    public static final String DEFAULT_ERROR_VIEW = "error";

    @ExceptionHandler(value = {Exception.class, RuntimeException.class})
    public ModelAndView defaultErrorHandler(HttpServletRequest request, Exception e) {
            ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView(DEFAULT_ERROR_VIEW);

        mav.addObject("datetime", new Date());
        mav.addObject("exception", e);
        mav.addObject("url", request.getRequestURL());
        return mav;
    }
}