Matt, thanks for the incredibly fast response! I added the two dispatcher
params to the filter mapping for the encodingFilter, but no change.
I have a feeling this has something to do with the bean method being invoked
twice?
- Lon
mraible wrote:
>
> By "might help", I mean you might change its <dispatcher>s on the
> <filter-mapping> to be REQUEST and FORWARD.
>
> Matt
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Matt Raible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> There's a CharacterEncodingFilter in web.xml that might helps.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:15 AM, LonB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > In a JSF page, I have a form in a view, that submits via an action
>> > commandlink... something like: <f:view>
>> > <h:form id="runReport">
>> > ...
>> > <h:commandLink action="#{reportList.run}"
>> > value="#{text['button.runReport']}">
>> > <f:param name="customerId" value="#{reportList.customerId}" />
>> > </h:commandLink>
>> > ...
>> >
>> > It invokes the "run" method of the backing bean, which executes a
>> POI/HSSF
>> > (excel) report, and streams it to the output stream. Something like
>> > ('BasePage' is from AppFuse):
>> >
>> > public class ReportList extends BasePage implements Serializable {
>> > ...
>> > public String run() {
>> > HttpServletResponse response = getResponse();
>> > response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
>> > response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;
>> > filename=Summary.xls");
>> > ...
>> > ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
>> > workbook.write(out);
>> > out.flush();
>> > out.close();
>> > ...
>> > getFacesContext().responseComplete();
>> > return null;
>> > }
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > The first time I startup tomcat 6.0 and submit the form, the page
>> returns
>> > incorrectly encoded characters, that look something like:
>> >
>> > ? ?X @? ????? ???"? ??? ? ? ?? ????? ???1? ?????? ? ??????
>> A?r?i?a?l?1?
>> > ?????? ? ?????? ;_("$"* "-"_);_(@_) .?)?)??
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Simply hitting 'refresh' resolves the issue and then it works fine
>> (the
>> > form loads correctly, the browser "open or save as" dialog opens
>> correct and
>> > the output excel document is perfect. If I leave the page and return,
>> it
>> > generally works fine. And this only seems to happen once per app
>> server
>> > startup.
>> >
>> > I compared the HTTP headers of the correctly working case and the
>> broken
>> > case, the only two differences are the "Content-Type", which is
>> "text/html"
>> > when broken and "text/html;charset=UTF-8" when working. And the second
>> is
>> > the response compression, which is "gzip" when working and "-" when
>> broken.
>> > I disabled the gzip filter but that didn't help. I'm not sure how to
>> adjust
>> > the character encoding.
>> >
>> > Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
>> >
>> > Thanks, Lon
>> > ________________________________
>> > View this message in context: JSF semi-randomly returns incorrectly
>> encoded
>> > output. Fixed by hitting refresh.
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>> >
>>
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