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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15494 zero terminated java string serialize zero to XML Summary: zero terminated java string serialize zero to XML Product: Axis Version: 1.1beta Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: Other Component: Serialization/Deserialization AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Chris Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 08:45 Subject: xsd:String encoded with zero at the end... I'm having a weird problem where my service returns strings which are zero terminated ( like C ), but actually _IN_ the XML. Here's a chunk from a tcpdump session watching the traffic: 0x0490 6f70 6c65 2e63 6f6d 223e 0a20 2020 3c61 ople.com">....<a 0x04a0 7274 6973 7420 7873 693a 7479 7065 3d22 rtist.xsi:type=" 0x04b0 7873 643a 7374 7269 6e67 223e 4d6f 7263 xsd:string">Morc 0x04c0 6865 6562 6100 3c2f 6172 7469 7374 3e0a heeba.</artist>. 0x04d0 2020 203c 616c 6275 6d20 7873 693a 7479 ...<album.xsi:ty Indeed a print out of the byte array version of the string before serialization reveals: 77 111 114 99 104 101 101 98 97 0 M o r c h e e b a A ZERO at the end. I can easily fix this in my code, but unless someone claims otherwise, I'm going to file this as a bug in the serializer. I don't have a decent debugging environment right now, otherwise I'd try to squish the bug myself. Dennis M. Sosnoski ( wrote on axis-user, and might lead to further debugging help ) : >From a quick look through the code there doesn't appear to be anywhere that even trys to check for valid characters - XMLUtils.xmlEncodeString() just handles encoding special characters, and SimpleSerializer.getValueAsString() just calls toString(). There should definitely be a check for valid characters in a String value. The best place to put this might be in SimpleSerializer, since the checking only needs to be done for String values (ints, floats, etc. cannot have illegal XML characters in their String representations, so there's no need to add overhead for checking these). - Dennis
