Jersey Throws an Exception that contains a Response or other things - http://stackoverflow.com/posts/30125101 - This code is compiling and working with Jersey 2.17 & java 7

30125101 .java

//add this code in your app.java
register(_MagicMapper.class);

_MagicException.java

package com.rizze.sof;

import javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;

/**
 *  www.rizze.com
 * @author je@rizze.com
 * 
 */
public class _MagicException extends WebApplicationException{
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 7946813589876270746L;
	private Response response=null;
	
	public _MagicException(){
		response=Response.ok().entity("empty").build();
	}
	public _MagicException(Response resp){
		response =resp;
		//do the stuff you like here
	}
	
	//SETTER + GETTER
	public Response getResponse() {
		return response;
	}
	public void setResponse(Response response) {
		this.response = response;
	}	
}

_MagicMapper

package com.rizze.sof;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.ExceptionMapper;
import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;


/**
 *  www.rizze.com
 * @author je@rizze.com
 * 
 */
@Provider
public class _MagicMapper implements ExceptionMapper<_MagicException> {
	private static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(_MagicError.class);
	@Context HttpServletRequest request;
	
	@Override
	public Response toResponse(_MagicException magic){
		logger.info(magic.getResponse().readEntity(String.class));
		//TODO write all your code here & return what you want! 
		return magic.getResponse();
	}	
}

Resource.java

/**
 *  www.rizze.com
 * @author je@rizze.com
 * 
 */
 
//Add this code in your ressource
	@GET
	@Path("/magic")
	@Produces({"application/json"})	
	public Response magic() {
		throw new _MagicException(Response.status(404).entity("not found").build());
		
	}

throw a MagicException and will be catched by MagicMapper