[aerogear-dev] [aerogear-controller] Error Route responses

JSON Responses for Error Routes We recently added support for routes to be able to produce responses, other than original MVC forwarding to a view. This addition meant that a route could specify the media types it produces, and a client could specify the desired media types using the HTTP Accept header, and get back a response body with that type. But this only worked for normal routes and not for error routes which is what AEROGEAR-515 <https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AEROGEAR-515> has added. You can now specify that your error routes produce different types: route() .on(Exception.class) .produces("text/html", "application/json") .to(Error.class).index(param(Exception.class)); route() .from("/throwException") .on(RequestMethod.GET) .produces("text/html", "application/json") .to(Error.class).throwException(); This would enable you to produce a html response by accessing throwException<http://localhost:8080/aerogear-controller-demo/throwException> in aerogear-controller-demo. You can also specify that you want the response as *application/json* and calling the same route as above: curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -X GET "http://localhost:8080/aerogear-controller-demo/throwException" GET Exception application/json: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 28 Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:52:56 GMT "{exception:Demo Exception}"