How to handle JSON Parse Error in Spring Rest Web Service

Question

I have a leisure web service created using Spring Boot.I can handle all exceptions that arise due to my code, but suppose the json object that the client messages are not compatible with the object that I want to desrialize it with , I get

"timestamp": 1498834369591,
"status": 400,
"error": "Bad Request",
"exception": "org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException",
"message": "JSON parse error: Can not deserialize value 

I wanted to know if there is a way that for this exception I can provide the client with a custom exception message. I am not sure how to handle this error.

Answer 1

, @ExceptionHandler @ResponseStatus :

    @ResponseStatus(value = HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST, reason = "CUSTOM MESSAGE HERE")
    @ExceptionHandler(HttpMessageNotReadableException.class)
    public void handleException() {
        //Handle Exception Here...
    }

, @ControllerAdvice:

@ControllerAdvice
public class CustomControllerAdvice {
    @ResponseStatus(value = HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST, reason = "CUSTOM MESSAGE HERE")
    @ExceptionHandler(HttpMessageNotReadableException.class)
    public void handleException() {
        //Handle Exception Here...
    }
}