By default, Spring Cloud Netflix Feign throws FeignException for any type errors in any situation, but it is not always suitable and you don't want this same exception for every situation in your project. Netflix Feign allows you to set your own application-specific exception instead. You can do it easily by providing your own implementation of feign.codec.ErrorDecoder to Feign.builder.errorDecoder().
Let's see an example of such an ErrorDecoder implementation:
public class AccountErrorDecoder implements ErrorDecoder {
@Override
public Exception decode(String methodKey, Response response) {
if (response.status() >= 400 && response.status() <= 499) {
return new AccountClientException(
response.status(),
response.reason()
);
}
if (response.status() >= 500 && response.status() <= 599) {
return new AccountServerException(
...