Spring Data Rest exception handling - Return generic error response

Question

I want to know how can I handle internal server error type exceptions in Spring Data Rest such as JPA exceptions etc. due to a malformed request or a database crash. I did some

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

@ControllerAdvice(basePackageClasses = RepositoryRestExceptionHandler.class)
public class GenericExceptionHandler {

    @ExceptionHandler
    ResponseEntity handle(Exception e) {
        return new ResponseEntity("Some message", new HttpHeaders(), HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST);
    }
}