Yes this worked. Thanks.
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Sergey Beryozkin <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Let me give a little background....i have a client passing XML to my >> JAX-RS >> service. I am using JAXB bindings. I appended some extra characters to >> the >> XML which i sent the service to see how it would error, in particular what >> the client would get as a response. The client got a JAXBException of >> some >> sort...can not remember from yesterday afternoon ;). >> >> If i register an ExceptionMapper for JAXBException or any of the XML >> Validation exceptions i see, would that allow me to make a custom error >> message to send back to the caller? >> > > Yes, sure. JAXBExceptions are wrapped into WebApplicationExceptions but you > can get to the cause exception, you need to register > ExceptionMapper<WebApplicationException>. Alternatively, you might want to > register a ValidationEventHandler instance with JAXBElementProvider and > when it's notified of the validation issues you can then throw some custom > CustomValidationException and register > ExceptionMapper<CustomValidationException>, you can register > ValidationEventHandler as a 'validationEventHandler' property on > org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.providers.JAXBElementProvider. > > Does it help ? > > Sergey > > > >> >> >> >> >>> cheers, Sergey >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Sergey Beryozkin < >>>> [email protected] >>>> >wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>>> >>>>> You can register an exception mapper as a provider from Spring, inside >>>>> a >>>>> jaxrs:providers tag. >>>>> >>>>> As far as the validation is concerned, here is how you can do it : >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://cwiki.apache.org/CXF20DOC/jax-rs.html#JAX-RS-Schemavalidationsupport >>>>> >>>>> You can also inject an instance of ValidationEventHandler into a JAXB >>>>> provider. >>>>> Or you can get more control by registering a custom XMLStreamReader and >>>>> do >>>>> some schematron-like validation in there...and throw some exception >>>>> from >>>>> there....Let me know please if you'd like some more info on this last >>>>> option. >>>>> >>>>> cheers, Sergey >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathaniel Auvil" < >>>>> [email protected]> >>>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 2:57 AM >>>>> Subject: JAX-RS Exception Handlers and Validation >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I am looking at how to get validations and exception handling going. >>>>> >>>>> Right >>>>>> now i send some garbage XML in and it throws a JAXException back in >>>>>> the >>>>>> response. I would prefer to be able to handle this back on the serve >>>>>> and >>>>>> give the client a less specific error. >>>>>> >>>>>> I am using Spring to configure things and i did not see anything in >>>>>> the >>>>>> examples which shows me how to add an exception handler or how to get >>>>>> control of the XML Validations. Can anyone point me in the right >>>>>> direction? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
