Using Spring Lemon Effectively

This page is a work in progress, which discusses how to use Spring Lemon effectively.

Using Utility classes

Searching for Le*Utils should bring the Spring Lemon utility classes. They contain many vital utility methods that would be highly useful in your applications. Go through those, and use those!

Handling exceptions

Spring Lemon provides comprehensive exception handling and validation mechanisms. Read here and here for some more details.

To add a new exception handler to your application, just create a bean inheriting from AbstractExceptionHandler or one of its subclasses, like AbstractBadRequestExceptionHandler. To override an existing exception handler, add a new handler with a higher priority (i.e. annotate that with @Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)).

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