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hey guys. i want to ask for some help. in my service i do some checks and throw custom exceptions which later i handle in RestResponseEntityExceptionHandler. it looks like this:

@ControllerAdvice
@Slf4j
public class RestResponseEntityExceptionHandler extends ResponseEntityExceptionHandler {
    @ExceptionHandler(value={NoCustomerException.class})
    protected ResponseEntity<Object> handleNoCustomerException(NoCustomerException noCustomerException, WebRequest webRequest) {
        String responseBody = noCustomerException.getMessage();
        return handleExceptionInternal(noCustomerException, responseBody,new HttpHeaders(), HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST, webRequest);
    }
    @ExceptionHandler(value={NoEarlierPaymentException.class})
    protected ResponseEntity<Object> handleNoEarlierPaymentException(NoEarlierPaymentException noEarlierPaymentException, WebRequest webRequest) {
        String responseBody = noEarlierPaymentException.getMessage();
        return handleExceptionInternal(noEarlierPaymentException, responseBody,new HttpHeaders(), HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST, webRequest);
    }
}

currently i return only error message string. but i need to return this type of array:

Name      Type       Length   Description
code      Integer  10        13001
Message*  String   200        Invalid signature

which in response looks like this:

[{"code":13001,"message":"Invalid signature"}]

so i was wondering, since im given fields' types and lengths, should i have a DTO/object which id return? how to aproach it? thanks

#do i need to return DTO from my controller when handling errors?