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How to ignore an @ExceptionHandler from a dependency?

I'm having a problem trying to return a "ResponseEntity" in one of my methods which is located in a custom exception handler (annotated with @ExceptionHandler and @ControllerAdvice), I'm calling this method from a "doOnError" (rxjava), but my problem is that when I do this not only my method is called, also another @ExceptionHandler in a @ControllerAdvice annotated class is called, but this class is not in my project, is in one of my dependencies.. so, to clarify my problem:

I'm trying to handle every exceptions in my project returning a ResponseEntity, but when I do this on my @ExceptionHandler inside my @ControllerAdvice, another one located in my dependencies is called after my custom one, so the response entity that I've build, is never returned, It just return the created by the dependency @ExceptionHandler.

My question is, there is a way to avoid the call to the dependency exception handler?

Notes:

  • the @ExceptionHandler is being used for the method inside the exception handler class, this last one is annotated with @ControllerAdvice.
  • I've tried with the Order and Priority annotations but they didn't work for me.
Solution

  • I solved my problem. I tried with the @ComponentScansolution proposed by João and it didn't work for me because the exception handler located in my dependencies is not annotated as a component.. so I started to research again and I figured it out that when I add another parameter to the "handleException" method in my exception handler (which is annotated as @ExceptionHandler) it doesn't works, because I deleted the second parameter (I had only the "throwable") and it started to work! So in resume, I added the ..

    @Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)

    ..annotation to my exception handler class and put only one parameter (the exception) in the @ExceptionHandler annotated method, which will retrieve the "ResponseEntity" that I needed.