Grails4 - catching file maxFileSize limit when exceeded on uploading a file

Question

I would like to catch this exception rather than simply returning a 500 to the end users which is a poor experience, at least in my application. The intention would be to return the user back to the form page with some feedback for them to try again.

The current experience is to throw the user back a 500 and the following is printed to the logs;

Caused by: org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.FileUploadBase$SizeLimitExceededException: the request was rejected because its size (157552) exceeds the configured maximum (1024)

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '19 at 07:32

Crediting @james-kleeh for this head start;

But I could only get this working on Grails 4.0.0.M2 when I extend the StandardServletMultipartResolver implementation which is what is used as default. Then the maxFileSize limits continue to be resolved from config (yaml).

public class MyMultipartResolver extends StandardServletMultipartResolver {

    static final String FILE_SIZE_EXCEEDED_ERROR = "fileSizeExceeded"

    public MultipartHttpServletRequest resolveMultipart(HttpServletRequest request) {
        try {
            return super.resolveMultipart(request)
        } catch (MaxUploadSizeExceededException e) {
            request.setAttribute(FILE_SIZE_EXCEEDED_ERROR, true)
            return new DefaultMultipartHttpServletRequest(request, new LinkedMultiValueMap<String, MultipartFile>(), new LinkedHashMap<String, String[]>(), new LinkedHashMap<String, String>());
        }
    }
}

With the following in resources.groovy;

// catch exception when max file size is exceeded
multipartResolver(MyMultipartResolver)

You need to subsequently check for the FILE_SIZE_EXCEEDED_ERROR attribute in the controller and handle accordingly.

Grails4 - catching file maxFileSize limit when exceeded on uploading a file

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