Sanchero

Sancho Pansa error library

Sanchero is single file library for Spring Boot Web, which solves 2 well known problems:

1. ConstraintViolationException is reported with code 500 when HTTP request fails Controller validation
2. Detail flood when POST request body fails validation

Example 1. curl localhost:8080/cve?p1=-1\&p2=-1

Vanilla Spring Boot

{
  "timestamp": "2022-09-19T22:09:25.242+00:00",
  "status": 500,
  "error": "Internal Server Error",
  "exception": "javax.validation.ConstraintViolationException",
  "message": "cve.p1: must be greater than or equal to 0, cve.p2: must be greater than or equal to 0",
  "path": "/cve"
}

Sanchero

{
  "timestamp": "2022-09-19T22:14:05.060+00:00",
  "status": 400,
  "error": "Bad Request",
  "exception": "javax.validation.ConstraintViolationException",
  "message": "Validation failed",
  "path": "/cve",
  "errors": [
    {
      "field": "p1",
      "description": "must be greater than or equal to 0"
    },
    {
      "field": "p2",
      "description": "must be greater than or equal to 0"
    }
  ]
}

Example 2. curl -v localhost:8080/manve -d '{ "p1": -1, "p2": -1}' -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Vanilla Spring Boot

{
  "timestamp": "2022-09-19T22:10:36.114+00:00",
  "status": 400,
  "error": "Bad Request",
  "exception": "org.springframework.web.bind.MethodArgumentNotValidException",
  "message": "Validation failed for object='rec'. Error count: 2",
  "errors": [
    {
      "codes": [
        "Min.rec.p1",
        "Min.p1",
        "Min.java.lang.Integer",
        "Min"
      ],
      "arguments": [
        {
          "codes": [
            "rec.p1",
            "p1"
          ],
          "arguments": null,
          "defaultMessage": "p1",
          "code": "p1"
        },
        0
      ],
      "defaultMessage": "must be greater than or equal to 0",
      "objectName": "rec",
      "field": "p1",
      "rejectedValue": -1,
      "bindingFailure": false,
      "code": "Min"
    },
    {
      "codes": [
        "Min.rec.p2",
        "Min.p2",
        "Min.java.lang.Integer",
        "Min"
      ],
      "arguments": [
        {
          "codes": [
            "rec.p2",
            "p2"
          ],
          "arguments": null,
          "defaultMessage": "p2",
          "code": "p2"
        },
        0
      ],
      "defaultMessage": "must be greater than or equal to 0",
      "objectName": "rec",
      "field": "p2",
      "rejectedValue": -1,
      "bindingFailure": false,
      "code": "Min"
    }
  ],
  "path": "/manve"
}

Sanchero

{
  "timestamp": "2022-09-19T22:12:44.470+00:00",
  "status": 400,
  "error": "Bad Request",
  "exception": "org.springframework.web.bind.MethodArgumentNotValidException",
  "message": "Validation failed",
  "errors": [
    {
      "field": "p1",
      "description": "must be greater than or equal to 0"
    },
    {
      "field": "p2",
      "description": "must be greater than or equal to 0"
    }
  ],
  "path": "/manve"
}

Installation

For Spring Boot 2.x:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.github.michaldo</groupId>
    <artifactId>sanchero-starter</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1</version>
</dependency>

For Spring Boot 3.x:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.github.michaldo</groupId>
    <artifactId>sanchero-starter</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Sanchero is compiled with Java 17.

If for any reason the library must be customized, I recommend copy-paste source code. It is just one file.

WARNING: Sanchero reports ConstraintViolationException with 400 code, regardless throw in Conroller layer or Service layer. Exceptions from Service layer should be reported with code 500.

It is not clear to me how to fix that. Fortunately, often ConstraintViolationException is thrown only from Conroller layer.