Source code for the article "Returning Custom Status Codes from Spring MVC Controllers"

spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/.gitignore

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+*.class
+
+#folders#
+/target
+/neoDb*
+/data
+/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes
+*/META-INF/*
+
+# Packaged files #
+*.jar
+*.war
+*.ear

spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/pom.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+	<groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+	<artifactId>custom-status-codes</artifactId>
+	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<packaging>jar</packaging>
+
+	<name>spring-mvc-custom-status-codes</name>
+	<description>Returning Custom Status Codes from Spring MVC Controllers</description>
+
+	<parent>
+		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
+		<version>1.3.2.RELEASE</version>
+		<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
+	</parent>
+
+	<properties>
+		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+		<java.version>1.8</java.version>
+	</properties>
+
+	<dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
+            <version>1.3.2.RELEASE</version>
+        </dependency>
+	</dependencies>
+	
+	<build>
+		<plugins>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+				<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+			</plugin>
+		</plugins>
+	</build>
+	
+
+</project>

spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/java/com/baeldung/CustomStatusCodesApplication.java

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+package com.baeldung;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+
+@SpringBootApplication
+public class CustomStatusCodesApplication {
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		SpringApplication.run(CustomStatusCodesApplication.class, args);
+	}
+}

spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ExampleController.java

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+package com.baeldung;
+
+import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
+import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;
+
+@Controller
+public class ExampleController {
+
+    @RequestMapping(value = "/controller", method = RequestMethod.GET)
+    @ResponseBody
+    public ResponseEntity sendViaResponseEntity() {
+        return new ResponseEntity(HttpStatus.NOT_ACCEPTABLE);
+    }
+
+    @RequestMapping(value = "/exception", method = RequestMethod.GET)
+    @ResponseBody
+    public ResponseEntity sendViaException() {
+        throw new ForbiddenException();
+    }
+}

spring-mvc-custom-status-codes/src/main/java/com/baeldung/ForbiddenException.java

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+package com.baeldung;
+
+import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseStatus;
+
+@ResponseStatus(value = HttpStatus.FORBIDDEN, reason="To show an example of a custom message")
+public class ForbiddenException extends RuntimeException {
+
+}