@ResponseStatus and @ResponseBody doesn't work with @ExceptionHandler

I tried to implement @ControllerAdvice

to globally handle some generic exceptions related to my web application. I would like to send a wrapped JSON response with the appropriate response status. Here's some sample code.

@ControllerAdvice
public class GlobalErrorHandler {

    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST)
    @ExceptionHandler(Exception.class)
    @ResponseBody
    public Response handleAllErrors() {
        Response wrapped = new Response(HttpServletResponse.SC_BAD_REQUEST, "error");
        wrapped.setMessage("Could not retrieve data");
        return wrapped;
    }
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

Response

is the POJO used to wrap the response. The problem is that, despite the annotation @ResponseStatus

, the response always has a 500 (Internal Server Error) status code with a default error page displaying the stack trace. Even @ResponseBody

doesn't seem to work. But the documentation states that I can send a JSON response to the method @ExceptionHandler

. I don't understand what I am doing wrong here.

I am using Spring 3.2.8 framework and Gson is used to transform messages if it matters.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.