Customize Spring Boot error response code without changing the default body

Spring Boot by default returns a response body for exceptions that meets my needs out of the box:

{
    "timestamp": 1587794161453,
    "status": 500,
    "error": "Internal Server Error",
    "exception": "javax.persistence.EntityNotFoundException",
    "message": "No resource exists for the given ID",
    "path": "/my-resource/1"
}

However, I would like to customize the response code for different types of exceptions thrown by my application. Some of the exceptions are not ones I own, so I can't just stick a @ResponseStatus annotation on the exception class. I've tries using an @ExceptionHandler method with @ResponseStatus, but that is overwriting the response body, which I don't wish to happen. For instance, I would like to map javax.persistence.EntityNotFoundException to return status code 404.

@ExceptionHandler
@ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND)
public void handleEntityNotFoundException(EntityNotFoundException e) {
    // This method returns an empty response body
}

This question is similar to mine, but it is also attempting to adjust the response body. I am hoping that there is a shorter, more idiomatic way of adjusting just the status code and not the body.

It turns out that this answer to the question mentioned had the exact solution needed to solve this problem, even though it didn't quite fully address the question it was answering.

The trick was to drop the use of @ResponseStatus from the method, and manually set the status on the HttpServletResponse using HttpServletResponse.sendError(). This causes the standard Spring Boot exception response to be served, but with the specified status code instead.

@ExceptionHandler
public void handleEntityNotFoundException(EntityNotFoundException e, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
    response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
}

{
    "timestamp": 1587794161453,
    "status": 404,
    "error": "Not Found",
    "exception": "javax.persistence.EntityNotFoundException",
    "message": "No resource exists for the given ID",
    "path": "/my-resource/1"
}