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+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2017 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.web.client;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.InitializingBean;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.springframework.http.client.ClientHttpResponse;
+import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageConverter;
+import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;
+import org.springframework.util.Assert;
+import org.springframework.util.CollectionUtils;
+
+/**
+ * Implementation of {@link ResponseErrorHandler} that uses {@link HttpMessageConverter}s to
+ * convert HTTP error responses to {@link RestClientException}.
+ * <p>To use this error handler, you must specify a
+ * {@linkplain #setStatusMapping(Map) status mapping} and/or a
+ * {@linkplain #setSeriesMapping(Map) series mapping}. If either of these mappings has a match
+ * for the {@linkplain ClientHttpResponse#getStatusCode() status code} of a given
+ * {@code ClientHttpResponse}, {@link #hasError(ClientHttpResponse)} will return
+ * {@code true} and {@link #handleError(ClientHttpResponse)} will attempt to use the
+ * {@linkplain #setMessageConverters(List) configured message converters} to convert the response
+ * into the mapped subclass of {@link RestClientException}. Note that the
+ * {@linkplain #setStatusMapping(Map) status mapping} takes precedence over
+ * {@linkplain #setSeriesMapping(Map) series mapping}.
+ * <p>If there is no match, this error handler will default to the behavior of
+ * {@link DefaultResponseErrorHandler}. Note that you can override this default behavior by
+ * specifying a {@linkplain #setSeriesMapping(Map) series mapping} from
+ * {@link HttpStatus.Series#CLIENT_ERROR} and/or {@link HttpStatus.Series#SERVER_ERROR} to
+ * {@code null}.
+ *
+ * @author Simon Galperin
+ * @author Arjen Poutsma
+ * @see RestTemplate#setErrorHandler(ResponseErrorHandler)
+ * @since 5.0
+ */
+public class ExtractingResponseErrorHandler extends DefaultResponseErrorHandler
+		implements InitializingBean {
+
+	private List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> messageConverters;
+
+	private final Map<HttpStatus, Class<? extends RestClientException>> statusMapping =
+			new LinkedHashMap<>();
+
+	private final Map<HttpStatus.Series, Class<? extends RestClientException>> seriesMapping =
+			new LinkedHashMap<>();
+
+	/**
+	 * Create a new, empty {@code ExtractingResponseErrorHandler}.
+	 * <p>Note that {@link #setMessageConverters(List)} must be called when using this constructor.
+	 */
+	public ExtractingResponseErrorHandler() {
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Create a new {@code ExtractingResponseErrorHandler} with the given
+	 * {@link HttpMessageConverter} instances.
+	 * @param messageConverters the message converters to use
+	 */
+	public ExtractingResponseErrorHandler(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> messageConverters) {
+		setMessageConverters(messageConverters);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Sets the message converters to use by this extractor.
+	 */
+	public void setMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> messageConverters) {
+		this.messageConverters = messageConverters;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Set the mapping from HTTP status code to {@code RestClientException} subclass.
+	 * If this mapping has a match
+	 * for the {@linkplain ClientHttpResponse#getStatusCode() status code} of a given
+	 * {@code ClientHttpResponse}, {@link #hasError(ClientHttpResponse)} will return
+	 * {@code true} and {@link #handleError(ClientHttpResponse)} will attempt to use the
+	 * {@linkplain #setMessageConverters(List) configured message converters} to convert the
+	 * response into the mapped subclass of {@link RestClientException}.
+	 */
+	public void setStatusMapping(
+			Map<HttpStatus, Class<? extends RestClientException>> statusMapping) {
+		if (!CollectionUtils.isEmpty(statusMapping)) {
+			this.statusMapping.putAll(statusMapping);
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Set the mapping from HTTP status series to {@code RestClientException} subclass.
+	 * If this mapping has a match
+	 * for the {@linkplain ClientHttpResponse#getStatusCode() status code} of a given
+	 * {@code ClientHttpResponse}, {@link #hasError(ClientHttpResponse)} will return
+	 * {@code true} and {@link #handleError(ClientHttpResponse)} will attempt to use the
+	 * {@linkplain #setMessageConverters(List) configured message converters} to convert the
+	 * response into the mapped subclass of {@link RestClientException}.
+	 */
+	public void setSeriesMapping(
+			Map<HttpStatus.Series, Class<? extends RestClientException>> seriesMapping) {
+		if (!CollectionUtils.isEmpty(seriesMapping)) {
+			this.seriesMapping.putAll(seriesMapping);
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void afterPropertiesSet() throws Exception {
+		Assert.notEmpty(this.messageConverters, "'messageConverters' is required");
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected boolean hasError(HttpStatus statusCode) {
+		return this.statusMapping.containsKey(statusCode) ||
+				this.seriesMapping.containsKey(statusCode.series()) ||
+						super.hasError(statusCode);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void handleError(ClientHttpResponse response) throws IOException {
+		HttpStatus statusCode = getHttpStatusCode(response);
+		if (this.statusMapping.containsKey(statusCode)) {
+			extract(this.statusMapping.get(statusCode), response);
+		}
+		else if (this.seriesMapping.containsKey(statusCode.series())) {
+			extract(this.seriesMapping.get(statusCode.series()), response);
+		}
+		else {
+			super.handleError(response);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private void extract(@Nullable Class<? extends RestClientException> exceptionClass,
+			ClientHttpResponse response) throws IOException {
+
+		if (exceptionClass == null) {
+			return;
+		}
+		HttpMessageConverterExtractor<? extends RestClientException> extractor =
+				new HttpMessageConverterExtractor<>(exceptionClass, this.messageConverters);
+		RestClientException exception = extractor.extractData(response);
+		if (exception != null) {
+			throw exception;
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/client/ExtractingResponseErrorHandlerTests.java b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/client/ExtractingResponseErrorHandlerTests.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2017 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.web.client;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.Collections;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+import org.springframework.http.client.ClientHttpResponse;
+import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageConverter;
+import org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+import static org.mockito.BDDMockito.given;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;
+
+/**
+ * @author Arjen Poutsma
+ */
+public class ExtractingResponseErrorHandlerTests {
+
+	private ExtractingResponseErrorHandler errorHandler;
+
+	private final ClientHttpResponse response = mock(ClientHttpResponse.class);
+
+	@Before
+	public void setUp() throws Exception {
+		HttpMessageConverter<Object> converter = new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter();
+		this.errorHandler = new ExtractingResponseErrorHandler(
+				Collections.singletonList(converter));
+
+		this.errorHandler.setStatusMapping(
+				Collections.singletonMap(HttpStatus.I_AM_A_TEAPOT, MyRestClientException.class));
+		this.errorHandler.setSeriesMapping(Collections
+				.singletonMap(HttpStatus.Series.SERVER_ERROR, MyRestClientException.class));
+		this.errorHandler.afterPropertiesSet();
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void hasError() throws Exception {
+		given(this.response.getStatusCode()).willReturn(HttpStatus.I_AM_A_TEAPOT);
+		assertTrue(this.errorHandler.hasError(this.response));
+
+		given(this.response.getStatusCode()).willReturn(HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+		assertTrue(this.errorHandler.hasError(this.response));
+
+		given(this.response.getStatusCode()).willReturn(HttpStatus.OK);
+		assertFalse(this.errorHandler.hasError(this.response));
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void handleErrorStatusMatch() throws Exception {
+		given(this.response.getStatusCode()).willReturn(HttpStatus.I_AM_A_TEAPOT);
+		HttpHeaders responseHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
+		responseHeaders.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
+		given(this.response.getHeaders()).willReturn(responseHeaders);
+
+		byte[] body = "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+		responseHeaders.setContentLength(body.length);
+		given(this.response.getBody()).willReturn(new ByteArrayInputStream(body));
+
+		try {
+			this.errorHandler.handleError(this.response);
+			fail("MyRestClientException expected");
+		}
+		catch (MyRestClientException ex) {
+			assertEquals("bar", ex.getFoo());
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void handleErrorSeriesMatch() throws Exception {
+		given(this.response.getStatusCode()).willReturn(HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+		HttpHeaders responseHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
+		responseHeaders.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
+		given(this.response.getHeaders()).willReturn(responseHeaders);
+
+		byte[] body = "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+		responseHeaders.setContentLength(body.length);
+		given(this.response.getBody()).willReturn(new ByteArrayInputStream(body));
+
+		try {
+			this.errorHandler.handleError(this.response);
+			fail("MyRestClientException expected");
+		}
+		catch (MyRestClientException ex) {
+			assertEquals("bar", ex.getFoo());
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void handleNoMatch() throws Exception {
+		given(this.response.getStatusCode()).willReturn(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
+		HttpHeaders responseHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
+		responseHeaders.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
+		given(this.response.getHeaders()).willReturn(responseHeaders);
+
+		byte[] body = "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+		responseHeaders.setContentLength(body.length);
+		given(this.response.getBody()).willReturn(new ByteArrayInputStream(body));
+
+		try {
+			this.errorHandler.handleError(this.response);
+			fail("HttpClientErrorException expected");
+		}
+		catch (HttpClientErrorException ex) {
+			assertEquals(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND, ex.getStatusCode());
+			assertArrayEquals(body, ex.getResponseBodyAsByteArray());
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void handleNoMatchOverride() throws Exception {
+		this.errorHandler.setSeriesMapping(Collections
+				.singletonMap(HttpStatus.Series.CLIENT_ERROR, null));
+		given(this.response.getStatusCode()).willReturn(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
+		HttpHeaders responseHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
+		responseHeaders.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
+		given(this.response.getHeaders()).willReturn(responseHeaders);
+
+		byte[] body = "{\"foo\":\"bar\"}".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+		responseHeaders.setContentLength(body.length);
+		given(this.response.getBody()).willReturn(new ByteArrayInputStream(body));
+
+		this.errorHandler.handleError(this.response);
+	}
+
+	@SuppressWarnings("serial")
+	private static class MyRestClientException extends RestClientException {
+
+		private String foo;
+
+		public MyRestClientException(String msg) {
+			super(msg);
+		}
+
+		public MyRestClientException(String msg, Throwable ex) {
+			super(msg, ex);
+		}
+
+		public String getFoo() {
+			return this.foo;
+		}
+
+		public void setFoo(String foo) {
+			this.foo = foo;
+		}
+	}
+
+}
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