This tutorial talks about Spring Rest Service Exception Handling. In our previous article, we created our very first Spring Boot REST Web Service. In this tutorial, let’s concentrate on how to handle an exception in Spring applications. While there always is an option to handle them manually and set a particular ResponseStatus, however, Spring provides an abstraction over the entire exception handling and just asks you to put a few annotations — it takes care of everything else. In this article, we will demonstrate these concepts with code examples.
How to Manually Handle Exceptions
In the Spring Boot Rest Service tutorials, we had created a Dogs Service to understand the concepts. In this post, let's extend the same Dogs Service to handle exceptions.