How to catch and Ignore org.apache.catalina.connector.ClientAbortException

Question

I want to catch and ignore the following tomcat ClientAbortException . As it is unnecessary to pay any attention on this for my program.

Any idea how and where I can catch this exception? Below is the Exception:

14:46:43.920 [ajp-bio-8029-exec-538] ERROR com.sok.runway.URLFilter - Exception in URLFilter
org.apache.catalina.connector.ClientAbortException: null
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:388) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:462) ~[tomcat-coyote.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.append(ByteChunk.java:366) ~[tomcat-coyote.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.writeBytes(OutputBuffer.java:413) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.write(OutputBuffer.java:401) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteOutputStream.write(CoyoteOutputStream.java:91) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet.copyRange(DefaultServlet.java:2031) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet.copy(DefaultServlet.java:1870) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet.serveResource(DefaultServlet.java:958) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet.doGet(DefaultServlet.java:411) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:621) ~[servlet-api.jar:na]
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:722) ~[servlet-api.jar:na]
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:305) [catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) [catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at com.sok.runway.URLFilter.doFilter(URLFilter.java:130) ~[runway-dev.jar:na]
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243) [catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210) [catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:224) [catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:169) [catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472) [catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:168) [catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98) [catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:927) [catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:118) [catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:407) [catalina.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.process(AjpProcessor.java:200) [tomcat-coyote.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:579) [tomcat-coyote.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:307) [tomcat-coyote.jar:7.0.26]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) [na:1.7.0_03]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) [na:1.7.0_03]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722) [na:1.7.0_03]
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:113) ~[na:1.7.0_03]
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:153) ~[na:1.7.0_03]
        at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.output(AjpProcessor.java:295) [tomcat-coyote.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AbstractAjpProcessor$SocketOutputBuffer.doWrite(AbstractAjpProcessor.java:1082) ~[tomcat-coyote.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.coyote.Response.doWrite(Response.java:533) ~[tomcat-coyote.jar:7.0.26]
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:383) ~[catalina.jar:7.0.26]

Answer 1

since you probably don't want a dependency to Catalina, you can ignore the Exception like this (I'm assuming the ClientAbortException is the cause):

String simpleName = e.getCause().getClass().getSimpleName();
if (simpleName.equals("ClientAbortException")) {
    // ignore
} else {
    // do whatever you do
}

Answer 2

In Spring 4, you would put this in a class annotated with @ControllerAdvice . The trick is to only suppress ClientAbortException while allowing every other IOException to be handled as errors or logged, without introducing a compile/runtime dependency on your container API:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

//import org.apache.catalina.connector.ClientAbortException; // We don't want this dependency.
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ControllerAdvice;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ExceptionHandler;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.NoHandlerFoundException;

@ControllerAdvice
public final class ErrorController
{
    @ExceptionHandler(NoHandlerFoundException.class)
    public String handleNoHandlerFoundException(final NoHandlerFoundException ex)
    {
        return "notFoundPage";
    }

    @ExceptionHandler(IOException.class)
    public String handleAbortedConnection(final IOException ex)
    {
        // avoids compile/runtime dependency by using class name
        if (ex.getClass().getName().equals("org.apache.catalina.connector.ClientAbortException"))
        {
            return null;
        }

        // log and return error page for any other IOExceptions
        if (LOGGER.isLoggable(Level.WARNING))
        {
            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "IO Error", ex);
        }

        return "errorPage";
    }

    @ExceptionHandler(Exception.class)
    public String handleException(final Exception ex)
    {
        if (LOGGER.isLoggable(Level.SEVERE))
        {
            LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, "Server Error", ex);
        }
        return "errorPage";
    }
}

Thanks to this answer for providing the missing piece where we return null for the view name to avoid throwing a SocketException on the closed OutputStream .

Answer 3

ClientAbortException extends IOException . You can try the code below to catch the exception:

try {  
    // codes
    out.write("xyz"); // throws IOException
} catch (org.apache.catalina.connector.ClientAbortException ca) {
    System.out.println("ClientAbortException caught");
} catch (IOException ioe) {
    System.out.println("i/o exception raised. abrorting.");
}