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Hamid Toloei
Hamid Toloei

Reputation: 21

Customize HTTP codes and error message in JBoss AS 7

can anyone tell me how i can customize http codes and reasonphrase in JBoss AS 7?

basically i have a REST webservice that returns a nonstandard status code '499' with reasonphrase 'app error'

In standalone.xml, I set the org.apache.coyote.Constants.USE_CUSTOM_STATUS_MSG_IN_HEADER to true under systemproperties, but AS still overrides the HTTP error message.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 941

Answers (2)

Alex D
Alex D

Reputation: 663

There seems to be a mistake in JBoss documentation, the correct property name is:

org.apache.coyote.USE_CUSTOM_STATUS_MSG_IN_HEADER

So in the standalone you should have something like this:

<system-properties>
    <property name="org.apache.coyote.USE_CUSTOM_STATUS_MSG_IN_HEADER" value="true"/>
</system-properties>

Upvotes: 1

Ondra Žižka
Ondra Žižka

Reputation: 46836

I assume that the REST service is interpretted using RestEasy.

That provides a nice feature of injecting a HTTP response object using @Context:

The @Context annotation allows you to inject instances of javax.ws.rs.core.HttpHeaders, javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo, javax.ws.rs.core.Request, javax.servlet.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.HttpServletResponse, javax.servlet.ServletConfig, javax.servlet.ServletContext, and javax.ws.rs.core.SecurityContext objects.

@Path("/")
public class MyService {
    @Context org.jboss.resteasy.spi.HttpResponse response;

    @GET @Path("/") public void myMethod(){
        response.sendError(499, "The file was censored by NSA.") 
    }
}

But maybe you should rather consider using a proprietary HTTP header:

        response.getOutputHeaders().putSingle("X-MyApp-Error", 
              "499 Our server is down and admin is on holiday. Mañana.");

Upvotes: 0

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