Dynamically changing the @ResponseStatus in annotation driven Spring MVC

Question

I am really not sure if this is feasible using Spring 3.2 MVC.

My Controller has a method declared as below:

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
         


        

Answer 1

If you return a ResponseEntity directly, you can set the HttpStatus in that:

// return with no body or headers    
return new ResponseEntity(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);

If you want to return an error other than 404, HttpStatus has lots of other values to choose from.