SpringBoot->RestController-> suspend fun exception handling

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Hey guys, some time ago i have faced with issue in my spring-webflux + kotlin microservice. During api call, After some kind of exception thrown inside suspend controller’s function, i have no errors in logs about it and also my request is stuck(after few minutes i got timeout error on client side).

I have short example of issue
`@RestController
@RequestMapping(“/test”)
class OrderController() {

@PostMapping()
suspend fun run() {
    try {
        throw NoClassDefFoundError("test")
    } catch (e: Exception) {
        println(e)
    }
}

}`

in this example i emulating exception from f.ex service

but if will throw just RuntimeException, i getting valid 500 response.

Is anyone knows how to deal with this exception? or maybe i missing some important knowledge how to deal with exceptions of this kind in Kotlin?

thx for the answers in advance :slight_smile:

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Your catch block only catches Exception. NoClassDefFoundError is not a subclass of Exception. It is a subclass of LinkageError, which is a subclass of Error.

In JVM, the topmost class, that can be thrown, is called Throwable. JVM ships with two direct subclasses of Throwable: Exception and Error. According to the documentation: An Error is a subclass of Throwable that indicates serious problems that a reasonable application should not try to catch. Most such errors are abnormal conditions.

That said, I would expect Spring to catch any uncaught throwable (including errors), log it, and respond with status 500. I just tried that in a minimal project myself, and that was indeed what happened. Are you perhaps using an old version of Spring or WebFlux? At any rate, that would be a Spring issue, not a Kotlin issue.

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@Varia thx for your answer, yep i thought that issue in spring, but i decided write about issue to kotlin forum first.
I using spring-boot 2.5.5 and kotlin 1.5.31.