Customizing Zuul Exception

Question

I have a scenario in Zuul where the service that the URL is routed too might be down . So the reponse body gets thrown with 500 HTTP Status and ZuulException in the JSON bod

Answer 1

I had the same problem and was able to solve it in simpler way

Just put this into you Filter run() method

    if (<your condition>) {
        ZuulException zuulException = new ZuulException("User message", statusCode, "Error Details message");
        throw new ZuulRuntimeException(zuulException);
    }

and SendErrorFilter will deliver to the user the message with the desired statusCode.

This Exception in an Exception pattern does not look exactly nice, but it works here.