<chapter id="ExceptionHandling">
   <title>Exception Handling</title>

   <sect1 id="ExceptionMappers">
   <title>Exception Mappers</title>
   <para>

      ExceptionMappers are custom, application provided, components that can catch thrown application exceptions and
      write specific HTTP responses. They are classes annotated with @Provider and that implement this interface
   </para>
   <para>

      <programlisting>
         package javax.ws.rs.ext;

         import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

         /**
         * Contract for a provider that maps Java exceptions to
         * {@link javax.ws.rs.core.Response}. An implementation of this interface must
         * be annotated with {@link Provider}.
         *
         * @see Provider
         * @see javax.ws.rs.core.Response
         */
         public interface ExceptionMapper&lt;E&gt;
         {
            /**
            * Map an exception to a {@link javax.ws.rs.core.Response}.
            *
            * @param exception the exception to map to a response
            * @return a response mapped from the supplied exception
            */
            Response toResponse(E exception);
         }
      </programlisting>
   </para>
   <para>

      When an application exception is thrown it will be caught by the JAX-RS runtime. JAX-RS will then scan registered
      ExceptionMappers to see which one support marshalling the exception type thrown. Here is an example of
      ExceptionMapper
   </para>
   <para>

      <programlisting>

         @Provider
         public class EJBExceptionMapper implements ExceptionMapper&lt;javax.ejb.EJBException&gt;
         {
            public Response toResponse(EJBException exception) {
               return Response.status(500).build();
            }
         }
      </programlisting>
   </para>
   <para>

      You register ExceptionMappers the same way you do MessageBodyReader/Writers. By scanning, through the resteasy
      provider context-param (if you're deploying via a WAR file), or programmatically through the
      ResteasyProviderFactory class.
   </para>
   <para>


   </para>
   </sect1>
   <sect1 id="builtinException">
     <title>Resteasy Built-in Internally-Thrown Exceptions</title>
     <para>Resteasy has a set of built-in exceptions that are thrown by it when it encounters errors during dispatching or marshalling.  They all
           revolve around specific HTTP error codes.  You can find them in RESTEasy's javadoc under the package org.jboss.resteasy.spi.  Here's 
           a list of them:</para>
<table frame="topbot">
<tgroup cols="3" rowsep="1" colsep="1">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Exception</entry>
<entry>HTTP Code</entry>
<entry>Description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>ReaderException</entry>
<entry>400</entry>
<entry>All exceptions thrown from MessageBodyReaders are wrapped within this exception.  If there is no ExceptionMapper for the
wrapped exception or if the exception isn't a WebApplicationException, then resteasy will return a 400 code by default.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>WriterException</entry>
<entry>500</entry>
<entry>All exceptions thrown from MessageBodyWriters are wrapped within this exception.  If there is no ExceptionMapper for the
wrapped exception or if the exception isn't a WebApplicationException, then resteasy will return a 400 code by default.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>o.j.r.plugins.providers.jaxb.JAXBUnmarshalException</entry>
<entry>400</entry>
<entry>The JAXB providers (XML and Jettison) throw this exception on reads.  They may be wrapping JAXBExceptions.  This class extends ReaderException</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>o.j.r.plugins.providers.jaxb.JAXBMarshalException</entry>
<entry>500</entry>
<entry>The JAXB providers (XML and Jettison) throw this exception on writes.  They may be wrapping JAXBExceptions.  This class extends WriterException</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>ApplicationException</entry>
<entry>N/A</entry>
<entry>This exception wraps all exceptions thrown from application code.  It functions much in the same way as InvocationTargetException.
If there is an ExceptionMapper for wrapped exception, then that is used to handle the request.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Failure</entry>
<entry>N/A</entry>
<entry>Internal Resteasy.  Not logged</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>LoggableFailure</entry>
<entry>N/A</entry>
<entry>Internal Resteasy error.  Logged</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>DefaultOptionsMethodException</entry>
<entry>N/A</entry>
<entry>If the user invokes HTTP OPTIONS and no JAX-RS method for it, Resteasy provides a default behavior by throwing this exception</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>UnrecognizedPropertyExceptionHandler</entry>
<entry>400</entry>
<entry>A Jackson provider throws this exception when JSON data is determine to be invalid.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="overring_resteasy_exceptions">
   <title>Overriding Resteasy Builtin Exceptions</title>
   <para>You may override Resteasy built-in exceptions by writing an ExceptionMapper for the exception.  For that matter, you can write an ExceptionMapper
   for any thrown exception including WebApplicationException</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
