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Spring MVC - @ControllerAdvice Examples

[Last Updated: Nov 8, 2025]

Spring MVC 


@ControllerAdvice is a specialization of @Component. It is typically used to define @ExceptionHandler, @InitBinder, and @ModelAttribute methods that apply to all @RequestMapping methods defined across multiple @Controllers classes.


package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ControllerAdvice;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ExceptionHandler;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseStatus;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

@ControllerAdvice
public class MyControllerAdvice {

    @ExceptionHandler
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)
    public String handleException (Exception exception, Model model) {
        model.addAttribute("exception", exception);
        return "exception-page";
    }
}
package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;

@Controller
public class ExampleController1 {

    @RequestMapping("/test1")
    public String handleRequest1 () throws Exception {
        String msg = String.format("Test exception from class: %s",
                                   this.getClass().getSimpleName());

        throw new Exception(msg);
    }
}
package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;

@Controller
public class ExampleController2 {

    @RequestMapping("/test2")
    public String handleRequest2 () throws Exception {
        String msg = String.format("Test exception from class: %s",
                                   this.getClass().getSimpleName());

        throw new RuntimeException(msg);
    }
}
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package com.logicbig.example;

import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ControllerAdvice;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.LongAdder;

@ControllerAdvice
public class PageCountersControllerAdvice {
    //uri to counter map
    private ConcurrentHashMap<String, LongAdder> counterMap = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();

    @ModelAttribute
    public void handleRequest(HttpServletRequest request, Model model) {
        String requestURI = request.getRequestURI();
        //counter increment for each access to a particular uri
        counterMap.computeIfAbsent(requestURI, key -> new LongAdder())
                  .increment();
        //populating counter in the model
        model.addAttribute("counter", counterMap.get(requestURI).sum());
        //populating request URI in the model
        model.addAttribute("uri", requestURI);
    }
}
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