spring feign client exception handling

Question

I have some fiegn client to send request other micro service.

@FeignClient(name="userservice")
public interface UserClient {

    @RequestMapping(
            method= RequestMethod.GET,
                      path = "/userlist")
    String getUserByid(@RequestParam(value ="id") String id);

}

Now I am sending request like this

try {
    String responseData = userClient.getUserByid(id);
    return responseData;
    }

catch(FeignException e)
 {
 logger.error("Failed to get user", id);
}

catch (Exception e) 
{
 logger.error("Failed to get user", id);
}

Here the problem is if any FeignException happens I dont get any error code.

I need to send a corresponding error codes in other APIS to send to caller

So how to extract the error code? I want to extract error code and build a responseEntity

I got this code but dont know how exactly I can use in my function.

Answer 1

Not the same issue, but this helped in my situation. OpenFeign's FeignException doesn't bind to a specific HTTP status (i.e. doesn't use Spring's @ResponseStatus annotation), which makes Spring default to 500 whenever faced with a FeignException. That's okay because a FeignException can have numerous causes that can't be related to a particular HTTP status.

However you can change the way that Spring handles FeignExceptions. Simply define an ExceptionHandler that handles the FeignException

@RestControllerAdvice
public class GlobalExceptionHandler {

    @ExceptionHandler(FeignException.class)
    public String handleFeignStatusException(FeignException e, HttpServletResponse response) {
        response.setStatus(e.status());
        return "feignError";
    }

}

This example makes Spring return the same HTTP status that you received