Jax-RS custom exception handling

Jax-RS custom exception handling

This will now throw an appropriate exception when a user cannot be found. However, we still need to create a Handler object to convert this exception into an actual JSON response so we get a nice friendly error message. The class below handles this exception and will convert the error message in the exception into a JSON response. The important annotation you'll see on this class is the @Provider annotation.

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