Spring Boot Rest - How to configure 404 - resource not found

Question

I got a working spring boot rest service. When the path is wrong it doesn\'t return anything. No response At all. At the same time it doesn\'t throw error either. Ideally I expe

Answer 1

I know this is an old question but here is another way to configure the DispatcherServlet in code but not in the main class. You can use a separate @Configuration class:

@EnableWebMvc
@Configuration
public class ExceptionHandlingConfig {

    @Autowired
    private DispatcherServlet dispatcherServlet;

    @PostConstruct
    private void configureDispatcherServlet() {
        dispatcherServlet.setThrowExceptionIfNoHandlerFound(true);
    }
}

Please not that this does not work without the @EnableWebMvc annotation.