Spring: an exception in a Filter never reaches @RestControllerAdvice

@ControllerAdvice is wired into DispatcherServlet. A filter runs before the servlet, so anything thrown there bypasses the whole handler-exception mechanism and comes back as the container's HTML error page - JSON API, HTML 500.

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Published 2026-08-25