从Spring 3.0开始，你还可以抛出一个用@ResponseStatus注释声明的Exception:

@ResponseStatus(value = HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND)
public class ResourceNotFoundException extends RuntimeException {
    ...
}

@Controller
public class SomeController {
    @RequestMapping.....
    public void handleCall() {
        if (isFound()) {
            // whatever
        }
        else {
            throw new ResourceNotFoundException(); 
        }
    }
}

这有点晚了，但如果你正在使用Spring Data REST，那么已经有org.springframework.data.rest.webmvc.ResourceNotFoundException 它还使用@ResponseStatus注释。不再需要创建自定义运行时异常。

从Spring 3.0开始，你还可以抛出一个用@ResponseStatus注释声明的Exception:

@ResponseStatus(value = HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND)
public class ResourceNotFoundException extends RuntimeException {
    ...
}

@Controller
public class SomeController {
    @RequestMapping.....
    public void handleCall() {
        if (isFound()) {
            // whatever
        }
        else {
            throw new ResourceNotFoundException(); 
        }
    }
}

从Spring 3.0.2开始，你可以返回ResponseEntity<T>作为控制器方法的结果:

@RequestMapping.....
public ResponseEntity<Object> handleCall() {
    if (isFound()) {
        // do what you want
        return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.OK);
    }
    else {
        return new ResponseEntity<>(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
    }
}

(ResponseEntity<T>是一个比@ResponseBody注释更灵活的注释-参见另一个问题)

因为做同一件事至少有十种方法总是好的:

import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

@Controller
public class Something {
    @RequestMapping("/path")
    public ModelAndView somethingPath() {
        return new ModelAndView("/", HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND);
    }
}

如果你想从控制器返回404状态，你只需要这样做

@RequestMapping(value = "/something", method = RequestMethod.POST)
@ResponseBody
public HttpStatus doSomething(@RequestBody String employeeId) {
    try {
        return HttpStatus.OK;
    } 
    catch (Exception ex) { 
         return HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND;
    }
}

通过这样做，当您想从控制器返回404时，您将收到一个404错误。