Spring MVC - RestTemplate launch exception when http 404 happens

Question

I have a rest service which send an 404 error when the resources is not found. Here the source of my controller and the exception which send Http 404.

@Controller @RequestMapping("/site") public class SiteController {      @Autowired     private IStoreManager storeManager;      @RequestMapping(value = "/stores/{pkStore}", method = RequestMethod.GET, produces = "application/json")     @ResponseBody     public StoreDto getStoreByPk(@PathVariable long pkStore) {                Store s = storeManager.getStore(pkStore);         if (null == s) {             throw new ResourceNotFoundException("no store with pkStore : " + pkStore);         }         return StoreDto.entityToDto(s);             } }   @ResponseStatus(value = HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND) public class ResourceNotFoundException extends RuntimeException {            private static final long serialVersionUID = -6252766749487342137L;         public ResourceNotFoundException(String message) {         super(message);     }     } 

When i try to call it with RestTemplate with this code :

ResponseEntity<StoreDto> r = restTemplate.getForEntity(url, StoreDto.class, m);  System.out.println(r.getStatusCode());  System.out.println(r.getBody()); 

I receive this exception :

org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate handleResponseError ATTENTION: GET request for "http://........./stores/99" resulted in 404 (Introuvable); invoking error handler org.springframework.web.client.HttpClientErrorException: 404 Introuvable 

I was thinking I can explore my responseEntity Object and do some things with the statusCode. But exception is launch and my app go down.

Is there a specific configuration for restTemplate to not send exception but populate my ResponseEntity.

Answer 1

As far as I'm aware, you can't get an actual ResponseEntity, but the status code and body (if any) can be obtained from the exception:

try {     ResponseEntity<StoreDto> r = restTemplate.getForEntity(url, StoreDto.class, m); } catch (final HttpClientErrorException e) {     System.out.println(e.getStatusCode());     System.out.println(e.getResponseBodyAsString()); }