Spring-MVC: Having different kind of responses (200 and errors)

Hi,

I'm having a problem with Spring MVC.

I'd like to have one type of response when it's a 200 and if the server triggers an error, then it can send a different type of response. In terms of JSON spec, it would look like this:

"responses": {
    "200": {
      "description": "Response",
      "schema": {
        "$ref": "#/definitions/createAdvisorResponse"
      }
    },
    "400": {
      "description": "Malformed request"
    },
    "422": {
      "description": "Unprocessable Entity",
      "schema": {
        "$ref": "#/definitions/response"
      }
    },
    "500": {
      "description": "Internal Server Error"
    }
  }

If I use something like this and I generate the Spring MVC server, then I will only see this kind of functions:

public ResponseEntity<CreateAdvisorResponse> addAdvisor( ...

Therefore, I cannot send a type Response in case of an error is triggered..

Do you know if there's a way to do this?? Maybe I'm doing something wrong..

Thanks in advance

P.S.: Swagger UI recognize the fact that the 200 response is different from the 422..

Start with the generated Spring MVC server method and the Swagger response definitions shown in the issue. Check how the generator represents the documented 200, 400, 422, and 500 responses, then determine whether distinct success and error response types can be represented; done means the generated API exposes the documented response shapes.