Support matching against exception causes in ExceptionTypeFilter

Prior to this commit, ExceptionTypeFilter only provided support for
filtering based on exact matches against exception types; however, some
use cases require that filtering be applied to nested causes in a given
exception. For example, this functionality is a prerequisite for
gh-35583.

This commit introduces a new match(Throwable, boolean) method in
ExceptionTypeFilter, where the boolean flag enables matching against
nested exceptions.

See gh-35583
Closes gh-35592

spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ExceptionTypeFilter.java

@@ -66,13 +66,59 @@ public class ExceptionTypeFilter extends InstanceFilter<Class<? extends Throwabl
 
 	/**
 	 * Determine if the type of the supplied {@code exception} matches this filter.
+	 * @param exception the exception to match against
+	 * @return {@code true} if this filter matches the supplied exception
 	 * @since 7.0
-	 * @see InstanceFilter#match(Object)
+	 * @see #match(Throwable, boolean)
 	 */
 	public boolean match(Throwable exception) {
-		return match(exception.getClass());
+		return match(exception, false);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Determine if the type of the supplied {@code exception} matches this filter,
+	 * potentially matching against nested causes.
+	 * @param exception the exception to match against
+	 * @param traverseCauses whether the matching algorithm should recursively
+	 * match against nested causes of the exception
+	 * @return {@code true} if this filter matches the supplied exception or one
+	 * of its nested causes
+	 * @since 7.0
+	 * @see InstanceFilter#match(Object)
+	 */
+	public boolean match(Throwable exception, boolean traverseCauses) {
+		return (traverseCauses ? matchTraversingCauses(exception) : match(exception.getClass()));
 	}
 
+	private boolean matchTraversingCauses(Throwable exception) {
+		Assert.notNull(exception, "Throwable to match must not be null");
+
+		boolean emptyIncludes = super.includes.isEmpty();
+		boolean emptyExcludes = super.excludes.isEmpty();
+
+		if (emptyIncludes && emptyExcludes) {
+			return super.matchIfEmpty;
+		}
+		if (!emptyExcludes && matchTraversingCauses(exception, super.excludes)) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		return (emptyIncludes || matchTraversingCauses(exception, super.includes));
+	}
+
+	private boolean matchTraversingCauses(
+			Throwable exception, Collection<? extends Class<? extends Throwable>> candidateTypes) {
+
+		for (Class<? extends Throwable> candidateType : candidateTypes) {
+			Throwable current = exception;
+			while (current != null) {
+				if (match(current.getClass(), candidateType)) {
+					return true;
+				}
+				current = current.getCause();
+			}
+		}
+		return false;
+	}
 
 	/**
 	 * Determine if the specified {@code instance} matches the specified

spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/InstanceFilter.java

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package org.springframework.util;
 
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;
 
@@ -35,11 +36,11 @@ import org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable;
  */
 public class InstanceFilter<T> {
 
-	private final Collection<? extends T> includes;
+	protected final Collection<? extends T> includes;
 
-	private final Collection<? extends T> excludes;
+	protected final Collection<? extends T> excludes;
 
-	private final boolean matchIfEmpty;
+	protected final boolean matchIfEmpty;
 
 
 	/**
@@ -74,8 +75,8 @@ public class InstanceFilter<T> {
 	public InstanceFilter(@Nullable Collection<? extends T> includes,
 			@Nullable Collection<? extends T> excludes, boolean matchIfEmpty) {
 
-		this.includes = (includes != null ? includes : Collections.emptyList());
-		this.excludes = (excludes != null ? excludes : Collections.emptyList());
+		this.includes = (includes != null ? Collections.unmodifiableCollection(includes) : Set.of());
+		this.excludes = (excludes != null ? Collections.unmodifiableCollection(excludes) : Set.of());
 		this.matchIfEmpty = matchIfEmpty;
 	}
 

spring-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/util/ExceptionTypeFilterTests.java

@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ class ExceptionTypeFilterTests {
 		assertMatches(new Error());
 		assertMatches(new Exception());
 		assertMatches(new RuntimeException());
+
+		assertMatchesCause(new Throwable());
+		assertMatchesCause(new Error());
+		assertMatchesCause(new Exception());
+		assertMatchesCause(new RuntimeException());
 	}
 
 	@Test
@@ -67,6 +72,20 @@ class ExceptionTypeFilterTests {
 		assertDoesNotMatch(new Exception());
 	}
 
+	@Test  // gh-35583
+	void includesCauseAndSubtypeMatching() {
+		filter = new ExceptionTypeFilter(List.of(IOException.class), null);
+
+		assertMatchesCause(new IOException());
+		assertMatchesCause(new FileNotFoundException());
+		assertMatchesCause(new RuntimeException(new IOException()));
+		assertMatchesCause(new RuntimeException(new FileNotFoundException()));
+		assertMatchesCause(new Exception(new RuntimeException(new IOException())));
+		assertMatchesCause(new Exception(new RuntimeException(new FileNotFoundException())));
+
+		assertDoesNotMatchCause(new Exception());
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	void excludes() {
 		filter = new ExceptionTypeFilter(null, List.of(FileNotFoundException.class, IllegalArgumentException.class));
@@ -89,6 +108,20 @@ class ExceptionTypeFilterTests {
 		assertMatches(new Throwable());
 	}
 
+	@Test  // gh-35583
+	void excludesCauseAndSubtypeMatching() {
+		filter = new ExceptionTypeFilter(null, List.of(IOException.class));
+
+		assertDoesNotMatchCause(new IOException());
+		assertDoesNotMatchCause(new FileNotFoundException());
+		assertDoesNotMatchCause(new RuntimeException(new IOException()));
+		assertDoesNotMatchCause(new RuntimeException(new FileNotFoundException()));
+		assertDoesNotMatchCause(new Exception(new RuntimeException(new IOException())));
+		assertDoesNotMatchCause(new Exception(new RuntimeException(new FileNotFoundException())));
+
+		assertMatchesCause(new Throwable());
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	void includesAndExcludes() {
 		filter = new ExceptionTypeFilter(List.of(IOException.class), List.of(FileNotFoundException.class));
@@ -113,4 +146,16 @@ class ExceptionTypeFilterTests {
 				.isFalse();
 	}
 
+	private void assertMatchesCause(Throwable candidate) {
+		assertThat(this.filter.match(candidate, true))
+				.as("filter '" + this.filter + "' should match " + candidate.getClass().getSimpleName())
+				.isTrue();
+	}
+
+	private void assertDoesNotMatchCause(Throwable candidate) {
+		assertThat(this.filter.match(candidate, true))
+				.as("filter '" + this.filter + "' should not match " + candidate.getClass().getSimpleName())
+				.isFalse();
+	}
+
 }