Exceptions thrown by REST endpoints get swallowed

[tomq42]

If your rest api method throws an exception, it gets swallowed and you get a bunch of other exceptions reported instead. I don't know whose fault this it, whether the cause lies in jersey, or here. I'd be surprised if "plain" jersey had this problem (though I haven't tried it).

On the console, I get:
2016-07-27 08:45:52.674:WARN:oejs.ServletHandler:qtp10883620-29: /services/test
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Committed
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Response.resetBuffer(Response.java:1243)
at javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper.resetBuffer(ServletResponseWrapper.java:195)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.ServletResponseWrapper.sendError(ServletResponseWrapper.java:67)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.ServletResponseWrapper.sendError(ServletResponseWrapper.java:61)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.Dispatcher.dispatch(Dispatcher.java:133)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.DispatcherServlet.service(DispatcherServlet.java:61)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:725)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:808)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:587)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:221)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1127)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:515)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1061)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:215)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:499)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:310)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:257)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:540)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:635)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:555)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2016-07-27 08:45:52.674:WARN:oejs.HttpChannel:qtp10883620-29: /services/test
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Committed
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Response.resetBuffer(Response.java:1243)
at javax.servlet.ServletResponseWrapper.resetBuffer(ServletResponseWrapper.java:195)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.ServletResponseWrapper.sendError(ServletResponseWrapper.java:67)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.ServletResponseWrapper.sendError(ServletResponseWrapper.java:61)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.dispatch.Dispatcher.dispatch(Dispatcher.java:133)
at org.apache.felix.http.base.internal.DispatcherServlet.service(DispatcherServlet.java:61)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:725)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:808)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:587)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:221)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1127)
at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:515)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:185)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1061)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:215)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:97)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:499)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:310)
at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:257)
at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$2.run(AbstractConnection.java:540)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:635)
at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$3.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:555)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
2016-07-27 08:45:52.675:WARN:oejs.HttpChannel:qtp10883620-29: Could not send response error 500: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Committed

[jeromebridge]

Anyone else having this issue or have a workaround for it?

[BryanHunt]

I use the following:

try
{
  ...
}
catch (Exception e)
{
  log(LogService.LOG_ERROR, "Unexpected exception", e);
  throw new InternalServerErrorException(e);
}

[jeromebridge]

@BryanHunt Where did you put that? I'm not even sure where the exception is being thrown. It doesn't appear to be coming from any of my code.

[BryanHunt]

That's how all of my REST endpoints look ...

@POST
public Response handlePost()
{
  try
  {
    ...
  }
  catch (Exception e)
  {
    log(LogService.LOG_ERROR, "Unexpected exception", e);
    throw new InternalServerErrorException(e);
  }
}

[sdempsay]

Take a look at org.glassfish.jersey.spi.ExtendedExceptionMapper

I made an OSGi service that implements it, and then in

public Response toResponse(final Throwable throwable)

I can both log it to the OSGi logger as well as reformat the response in the web browser to something useful for debugging.