You want to create a class that implements ResponseErrorHandler and then use an instance of it to set the error handling of your rest template:
public class MyErrorHandler implements ResponseErrorHandler {
@Override
public void handleError(ClientHttpResponse response) throws IOException {
// your error handling here
}
@Override
public boolean hasError(ClientHttpResponse response) throws IOException {
...
}
}
[...]
public static void main(String args[]) {
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
restTemplate.setErrorHandler(new MyErrorHandler());
}
Also, Spring has the class DefaultResponseErrorHandler, which you can extend instead of implementing the interface, in case you only want to override the handleError method.
public class MyErrorHandler extends DefaultResponseErrorHandler {
@Override
public void handleError(ClientHttpResponse response) throws IOException {
// your error handling here
}
}
Take a look at its source code to have an idea of how Spring handles HTTP errors.