Spring MVC How to handle max upload size exceeded exception

In Spring, you can declare a @ControllerAdvice to catch the ugly max upload size exceeded exception like this :

Solution

Depends the types of multipartResolver :

1. StandardServletMultipartResolver – catch MultipartException, refer to this example.
2. CommonsMultipartResolver – catch MaxUploadSizeExceededException – refer to this example.

package com.mkyong.exception;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ControllerAdvice;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ExceptionHandler;
import org.springframework.web.multipart.MaxUploadSizeExceededException;
import org.springframework.web.multipart.MultipartException;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.RedirectAttributes;
@ControllerAdvice
public class GlobalExceptionHandler {
    //StandardServletMultipartResolver
    @ExceptionHandler(MultipartException.class)
    public String handleError1(MultipartException e, RedirectAttributes redirectAttributes) {
        redirectAttributes.addFlashAttribute("message", e.getCause().getMessage());
        return "redirect:/uploadStatus";
    //CommonsMultipartResolver
    @ExceptionHandler(MaxUploadSizeExceededException.class)
    public String handleError2(MaxUploadSizeExceededException e, RedirectAttributes redirectAttributes) {
        redirectAttributes.addFlashAttribute("message", e.getCause().getMessage());
        return "redirect:/uploadStatus";

References

1. Spring’s multipart (file upload) support