Better responses for invalid JSON given Ring's wrap-json-body parse issues
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As a user of Ring’s wrap-json-body middleware, I’ve had an issue where I send up invalid JSON and receive a 500 status code since an exception is thrown server-side. This is less than ideal since it seems to indicate that the problem is server-side rather than client side. As a quick, hopefully temporary fix, I’ve written some middleware to wrap it with some exception handling to return a 400 status code with helpful response body.
Here’s the code:
The major catch is that this relies on an implementation detail of a library used by another library used by another library (i.e., Jackson, Cheshire, and Ring Middleware) making this approach fairly fragile.