Using Spring 3 @ExceptionHandler with commons FileUpload and SizeLimitExceededException/MaxUploadSizeExceededException

Question

Hi All,

I am having trouble with catching and gracefully handling commons fileupload's FileUploadBase.SizeLimitExceededException or spring's MaxUploadSizeExceededException when uploading large files.

From what I can tell these exceptions are thrown during data binding, before the controller is actually reached, therefore resulting in a 500 and no calling of the exception handler method. Has anyone come across this before, and what is the best way for handling these exceptions properly?

Thanks in advance,
Luke

Answer 1

This seems to be a quite common problem. I've had similar problems and similar questions have been asked, see for example this question. I have yet to see a nice solution to the problem. You could use a vanilla servlet filter to handle these exceptions, but that will duplicate your error handling since you already have an ExceptionHandler.