Example Spring 4 MVC – Exception Handling

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This example presents the basic concept of using in Spring the exception handling.

The technologies used are :

    – Spring 4.3.18
    – JDK 1.80
    – Maven 3.3.9

You can convert this example to an Eclipse IDE project by going to folder where is the pom.xml is, and use the command :

mvn eclipse:eclipse

Inspired from « Beginning Spring » Mert Caliskan, Kenan Sevindik, Rod Johnson (Foreword by), Jürgen Höller (Foreword by).

package javaspringexamples.spring.exceptionhandling.domain;

/**
 * 
 * @author mounir.sahrani@gmail.com
 *
 */
public class Country {

	private String name;
	private String isoCode;

	public Country() {
	}

	public Country(String name, String isoCode) {
		this.name = name;
		this.isoCode = isoCode;
	}

	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}

	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}

	public String getIsoCode() {
		return isoCode;
	}

	public void setIsoCode(String isoCode) {
		this.isoCode = isoCode;
	}
}
package javaspringexamples.spring.exceptionhandling.exception;

/**
 * 
 * @author mounir.sahrani@gmail.com
 *
 */
public class CountryNotFoundException extends Exception {

	public CountryNotFoundException(String name) {
		super("Country not found with name: " + name);
	}
}
package javaspringexamples.spring.exceptionhandling.handler;

import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ControllerAdvice;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ExceptionHandler;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

/**
 * 
 * @author mounir.sahrani@gmail.com
 *
 */
@ControllerAdvice
public class GlobalExceptionHandler {

	@ExceptionHandler(Exception.class)
	public ModelAndView handleException() {
		return new ModelAndView("errorGlobal");
	}
}
package javaspringexamples.spring.exceptionhandling.controller;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ExceptionHandler;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

import javaspringexamples.spring.exceptionhandling.domain.Country;
import javaspringexamples.spring.exceptionhandling.exception.CountryNotFoundException;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * 
 * @author mounir.sahrani@gmail.com
 *
 */
@Controller
public class CountryController {

	private Map<String, Country> countries = new HashMap<String, Country>();

	@PostConstruct
	public void setup() {
		countries.put("morocco", new Country("Morocco", "MA"));
		countries.put("france", new Country("France", "FR"));
		countries.put("united states of america", new Country("United states of America", "US"));
		countries.put("error", new Country("Error", "Err"));
	}

	@RequestMapping(value = "/form")
	public ModelAndView country() {
		return new ModelAndView("form", "country", new Country());
	}

	@RequestMapping(value = "/result")
	public ModelAndView process(String name) throws Exception {
		ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView();
		if ("error".equalsIgnoreCase(name)) {
			throw new Exception();
		}

		Country country = countries.get(name.toLowerCase());
		if (country == null) {
			throw new CountryNotFoundException(name);
		}
		modelAndView.addObject("country", country);
		modelAndView.setViewName("result");
		return modelAndView;
	}

	@ExceptionHandler(CountryNotFoundException.class)
	public ModelAndView handleException(CountryNotFoundException e) {
		ModelAndView modelAndView = new ModelAndView("errorCountry");
		modelAndView.addObject("errorMessage", e.getMessage());
		return modelAndView;
	}
}
<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
	  http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"
         version="3.1">

	<servlet>
		<servlet-name>springmvc</servlet-name>
		<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
		<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
	</servlet>

	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>springmvc</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>*.mvc</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
       					   http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd 
       					   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
       					   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd
       					   http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
       					   http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd">

	<context:component-scan
		base-package="javaspringexamples.spring.exceptionhandling" />
	<context:annotation-config />
	<mvc:annotation-driven />

	<bean
		class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
		<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/pages/" />
		<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
	</bean>
</beans>
<%
	response.sendRedirect("form.mvc");
%>
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="mvc"%>
<html>
<head>
<title>JavaSpringExamples Exception Handling</title>
</head>
<body>

	<h2>Search Country</h2>
	<mvc:form modelAttribute="country" action="result.mvc">
		<table>
			<tr>
				<td><mvc:label path="name">Country Name</mvc:label></td>
				<td><mvc:input path="name" /></td>
			</tr>
			<tr>
				<td colspan="2"><input type="submit" value="Search" /></td>
			</tr>
		</table>
	</mvc:form>
</body>
</html>
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Country Not Found</title>
</head>
<body>
	<h2>${errorMessage}</h2>
</body>
</html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Error!</title>
</head>
<body>
	<h2>Error occurred!</h2>
</body>
</html>
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@taglib uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" prefix="mvc"%>
<html>
<head>
<title>JavaSpringExamples Exception Handling</title>
</head>
<body>
	<h2>Search Country</h2>
	<table>
		<tr>
			<td>Country Name :</td>
			<td>${country.name}</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>ISO Code :</td>
			<td>${country.isoCode}</td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</body>
</html>

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