Disabling error stack traces with SpringBoot, but only in prod

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Simply add the following class to your project. It will be automatically registered at start-up if you use the @EnableAutoConfiguration annotation :

@ControllerAdvice  // Makes this the default behaviour of all controllers
@ConditionalOnProperty(prefix = "app", name = "disable-default-exception-handling")
class GlobalControllerExceptionHandler {
    @ExceptionHandler(Exception.class)  // Catch any exception
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)  // Returns an error code 500
    public void handleException() {
    }
}

The nice trick is that you can the define your production settings as the default properties in your application.yml :

app:
  disable-default-exception-handling: true
error:
  whitelabel:
    enabled: false

Then, when you run your SpringBoot application on your local machine, select the dev Spring profile with -Dspring.profiles.active=dev and put the following in application-dev.yml :

app:
  disable-default-exception-handling: false
error:
  whitelabel:
    enabled: true

I tested it with a .war deployed under Apache Tomcat 7.0.52. Most of the code comes straight from the official documentation, I only added the @ConditionalOnProperty.

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