I have a Spring service calling a Spring Rest endpoint with RestTemplate.postForEntity. I can step through the Rest controller and see that it creates and returns a ResponseEntity with Status Code 500 -Internal Server Error which is expected in my use case. However the calling spring Service is throwing a RestClientException rather than receiving the ResponseEntity with status code.

Does RestTemplate.postForEntity throw a RestClientException when receiving an ResponseEntity with a status code that isn't a 2xx?