Spring Boot Bean Validation No Error Response Returned - spring

Question

I'm working on a Spring Boot 2 project and I'm trying to introduce Bean validation to it.
My beans are getting validated, but there is no any error response returned.
I have a POJO annotated like follows
#Data
public class AccountSelectBeanRequest implements Serializable {
#JsonProperty("accountNo")
#Size(max = 10,message = "maximum length is 10")
private String accountNo;
#JsonProperty("ship-to")
private String shipTo;
}
In the resource method I have the #Valid annotation like follows
#PostMapping("/account-select")
public ResponseEntity<?> selectAccount(#Valid #RequestBody AccountSelectBeanRequest accountRequest) {...}
When I call the selectAccount method with a accountNo larger than 10, I get a HTTP 400 Bad Request with an empty response body.
But if I validate a request parameter in a resource method like follows, it returns an error response body as expected.
#PostMapping(value = "/generate-token")
public ResponseEntity<?> login(#RequestParam String username, #RequestParam #NotNull #NotEmpty String password)
What could be the reason for this behavior?
POM dependencies
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.1.5.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-rest</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-webflux</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.projectreactor</groupId>
<artifactId>reactor-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.restdocs</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-restdocs-mockmvc</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-security-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
<artifactId>jjwt</artifactId>
<version>0.9.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-activemq</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.activemq</groupId>
<artifactId>activemq-broker</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!--<dependency>-->
<!--<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>-->
<!--<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>-->
<!--</dependency>-->
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger2</artifactId>
<version>2.6.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger-ui</artifactId>
<version>2.6.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-text</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
<version>1.7.30</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Binding for Log4J -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.12.0</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Log4j2 -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
<version>2.11.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
<version>2.11.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
<artifactId>guava</artifactId>
<version>21.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

Answer 1

Create a controller advice to intercept the bad request status and return a custom response message.
#Order(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE)
#ControllerAdvice
public class validationAdvice{
#ResponseStatus(BAD_REQUEST)
#ResponseBody
#ExceptionHandler(MethodArgumentNotValidException.class)
public ResponseEntity<?> methodArgumentNotValidException(MethodArgumentNotValidException ex) {
BindingResult result = ex.getBindingResult();
List<FieldError> fieldErrors = result.getFieldErrors();
String errorMessage = fieldErrors.get(0).getDefaultMessage();
return ResponseEntity.badRequest().body(errorMessage);
}
}