problem with BOM and character set encoding
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Key: AXIS-1971
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-1971
Project: Axis
Type: Bug
Components: Serialization/Deserialization
Versions: current (nightly)
Reporter: David Jencks
Attachments: MessageContext.diff
I'm encountering this problem in the geronimo axis integration, so it's
possible that it is not an axis bug, but I don't see how.
I send a UTF-16 character set encoded message to the server, and get back a
message that starts with a byte order mark but claims to be UTF-8.
I've copied the code from AxisServlet that sets the character encoding on the
response to the equivalent place in geronimo code.
After tracing through what is happening, I find that during the return from the
invoke call, leaving the HandlerChainImpl (postInvoke line 206) the entire
response is serialized with the default UTF-8 character set encoding into a
ByteArray.
After invoke returns, the code from AxisServlet changes the character set
encoding to UTF-16 and writes out the message. However, since the message was
already serialized into a ByteArray buffer, this apparently has the effect of
writing out the byte order mark and then the byte array that was produced using
UTF-8.
This can be fixed by making the message context set the response message
character set encoding when the response message is set on the message context
(see attached patch).
I find the logic that determines the response character set encoding byzantine
and would prefer to simplify it to the extent that I can understand how it
works... I would need answers to these questions in order to proceed:
1. Under what circumstances would a response message be in a different
character set encoding than a request?
2. Which user/application code should be able to set the response character set
encoding and how should it do so?
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