I am using webflux Mono (in Spring boot 5) to consume an external API. I am able to get data well when the API response status code is 200, but when the API returns an error I am not able to retrieve the error message from the API. Spring webclient error handler always display the message as
ClientResponse has erroneous status code: 500 Internal Server Error
, but when I use PostMan the API returns this JSON response with status code 500.
{
"error": {
"statusCode": 500,
"name": "Error",
"message":"Failed to add object with ID:900 as the object exists",
"stack":"some long message"
}
}
My request using WebClient is as follows
webClient.getWebClient()
.post()
.uri("/api/Card")
.body(BodyInserters.fromObject(cardObject))
.retrieve()
.bodyToMono(String.class)
.doOnSuccess( args -> {
System.out.println(args.toString());
})
.doOnError( e ->{
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Some Error Happend :"+e);
});
My question is, how can I get access to the JSON response when the API returns an Error with status code of 500?
Look at .onErrorMap()
, that gives you the exception to look at. Since you might also need the body() of the exchange() to look at, don't use retrieve, but
.exchange().flatMap((ClientResponse) response -> ....);