I'm using Spring Boot v2.2.10 and Spring v5.2.9. I've created a Rest controller with an @Valid @RequestBody annotation. The validation works fine (I get a 400 BAD REQUEST response when submitting values outside of the constraints), but I don't like the default error message as it reveals too much of internals. Thus, I defined an @ExceptionHandler(MethodArgumentNotValidException.class) method, but this method never gets invoked.
This is the controller with the exception handler:
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import javax.validation.Valid;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
import org.springframework.validation.ObjectError;
import org.springframework.web.bind.MethodArgumentNotValidException;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ExceptionHandler;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PostMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestBody;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseStatus;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;
import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
@RestController
@RequiredArgsConstructor
@RequestMapping("/api/data")
public class DataController {
@PostMapping(path = "/{id}", consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
private void postData(
@PathVariable String id,
@Valid @RequestBody MyDTO dto) {
// DO SOMETHING
}
@ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST)
@ExceptionHandler(MethodArgumentNotValidException.class)
public List<String> handleValidationExceptions(MethodArgumentNotValidException ex) {
System.out.println("Handling method argument not valid exception");
return ex.getBindingResult()
.getAllErrors().stream()
.map(ObjectError::getDefaultMessage)
.collect(Collectors.toList());
}
}
The DTO:
import javax.validation.constraints.Max;
import lombok.Getter;
@Getter
public class MyDTO {
@Max(value = 1, message = "Value should not be greater than 1")
private float value;
}
I also tried to put the ExceptionHandler into an extra class:
// Imports
@Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
@RestControllerAdvice
public class GlobalExceptionHandler {
@ExceptionHandler(MethodArgumentNotValidException.class)
// Same as before
}
As I've said, my ExceptionHandler never gets invoked. What might I be doing wrong?