RestTemplate – Handling response headers/body in Exceptions (RestClientException, HttpStatusCodeException)

I finally did it using ResponseErrorHandler.

public class CustomResponseErrorHandler implements ResponseErrorHandler {

    private static ILogger logger = Logger.getLogger(CustomResponseErrorHandler.class);

    private ResponseErrorHandler errorHandler = new DefaultResponseErrorHandler();

    public void handleError(ClientHttpResponse response) throws IOException {

        List<String> customHeader = response.getHeaders().get("x-app-err-id");

        String svcErrorMessageID = "";
        if (customHeader != null) {
            svcErrorMessageID = customHeader.get(0);                
        }

        try {           

            errorHandler.handleError(response);

        } catch (RestClientException scx) {         

            throw new CustomException(scx.getMessage(), scx, svcErrorMessageID);
        }
    }

    public boolean hasError(ClientHttpResponse response) throws IOException {
        return errorHandler.hasError(response);
    }
}

And then use this custom response handler for RestTemplate by configuring as shown below

<bean id="restTemplate" class="org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate">
   <property name="messageConverters">
       <list>
           <ref bean="jsonConverter" />
       </list>
   </property>    
   <property name="errorHandler" ref="customErrorHandler" />
</bean>

<bean id="jsonConverter" class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter">
   <property name="supportedMediaTypes" value="application/json" />
</bean>

<bean id="customErrorHandler " class="my.package.CustomResponseErrorHandler">
</bean>