
[[_adapter_error_handling]]
=== Error Handling

Keycloak has some error handling facilities for servlet based client adapters.
When an error is encountered in authentication, keycloak will call `HttpServletResponse.sendError()`.
You can set up an error-page within your `web.xml` file to handle the error however you want.
Keycloak may throw 400, 401, 403, and 500 errors. 


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<error-page>
    <error-code>404</error-code>
    <location>/ErrorHandler</location>
</error-page>
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Keycloak also sets an `HttpServletRequest` attribute that you can retrieve.
The attribute name is `org.keycloak.adapters.spi.AuthenticationError`.
Typecast this object to: `org.keycloak.adapters.OIDCAuthenticationError`.
This class can tell you exactly what happened.
If this attribute is not set, then the adapter was not responsible for the error code. 


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public class OIDCAuthenticationError implements AuthenticationError {
    public static enum Reason {
        NO_BEARER_TOKEN,
        NO_REDIRECT_URI,
        INVALID_STATE_COOKIE,
        OAUTH_ERROR,
        SSL_REQUIRED,
        CODE_TO_TOKEN_FAILURE,
        INVALID_TOKEN,
        STALE_TOKEN,
        NO_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER
    }

    private Reason reason;
    private String description;

    public OIDCAuthenticationError(Reason reason, String description) {
        this.reason = reason;
        this.description = description;
    }

    public Reason getReason() {
        return reason;
    }

    public String getDescription() {
        return description;
    }
}
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