Hi - indeed, there's a bug in the CXF JAXRS FormProvider in that it ignores
the encoding of the incoming ContentType - I'll try to fix it these
weekends; a custom FormProvider can be easily created as well as a
workaround

cheers, Sergey

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Ron Grimes <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think I may have found the answer. See
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/text/string.html ).
>
> Here, they talk about how it is incorrect to load a string value into a
> bytes array without specifying the encoding. Notice, in their example, that
> the difference in
>
> byte[] bytes = utfEightString.getBytes(); \\ bad
> byte[] bytes = utfEightString.getBytes("UTF8"); \\ good
>
> will produce a different number of byte elements. Essentially, your loop is
> doing the same thing. For a five characters string, you will always end up
> with a 5 element byte array, when it might have given you an 8 byte array,
> had you specified the encoding.
>
> Instead, you should do this:
>
> byte[] bytes = utfEightString.getBytes("UTF8");
> return new String(bytes, "UTF8");
>
>
> Ron Grimes
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loh Kok Jeng [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 7:11 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: UTF-8 Characters in Request Params for REST Service
>
> Hi Sergey,
>
> This is for form based submission.
>
> Below is a snippet of my code.  I want to be able to accept non-ASCII
> characters in "message" parameter below.  However, when I tested with
> Chinese characters, they are converted to "?" as shown in my logs.
>
> Any help will be very much appreciated.
>
>   @POST
>    // @Consumes("application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
>    public SMSSendSmsResponse sendSms(@HeaderParam("Authorization")
> String authorization,
>                                      @Context MessageContext mc,
> @FormParam("address") List<String> address,
>                                      @FormParam("message") String message,
>                                      @FormParam("notifyURL") String
> notifyURL,
>                                      @FormParam("correlator") String
> correlator,
>                                      @FormParam("senderName") String
> senderName,
>                                      @FormParam("Charging") String
> Charging)
>        throws MalformedURLException,  PolicyException, ServiceException {
>
>        if (address != null) {
>            for (Iterator<String> i = address.iterator(); i.hasNext();) {
>                log.info("Address: " + i.next());
>            }
>        }
>        log.info("Message: " + message);
>        log.info("Notify URL: " + notifyURL);
>        log.info("Correlator: " + correlator);
>        log.info("Sender Name: " + senderName);
>        log.info("Charging: " + Charging);
>
>        ....
>
> }
> regards,
> Loh Kok Jeng
>
>
>
> On 24 June 2010 02:00, Sergey Beryozkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I need to know the details of the request and how a resource method
> > expecting the values looks like
> >
> > thanks, Sergey
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Rakesh Rai <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> This is the method that does the trick.... converts to UTF-8 and
> transforms
> >> to UTF-8 format string and sends it back to the caller
> >> Wherever in your service class / action class add this method and
> convert
> >> the existing string to return the UTF-8 transformed string / text
> >>    /**
> >>     *
> >>     * @param utfEightString
> >>     * @return String converted to USF-8 format and send it to the caller
> .
> >>     * @throws java.io.
> >> UnsupportedEncodingException
> >>     */
> >>    public static final String utfEightConvert(String utfEightString)
> >>            throws java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException {
> >>
> >>        byte[] bytes = new byte[utfEightString.length()];
> >>        for (int i = 0; i < utfEightString.length(); i++) {
> >>            bytes[i] = (byte) utfEightString.charAt(i);
> >>        }
> >>        return new String(bytes, "UTF-8");
> >>
> >>    }
> >>
> >> Hope it helps.
> >> Rakesh
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Sergey Beryozkin <[email protected]
> >> >wrote:
> >>
> >> > Is it a form based submission ? or XML is posted in the body ?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > cheers, Sergey
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Loh Kok Jeng <[email protected]>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Dear all,
> >> > >
> >> > > I'm struggling with non-ASCII characters passed in request params of
> a
> >> > > REST service.  The characters become ? when received by my app
> >> > > developed using CXF.  The encoding is set to UTF-8 by the REST
> client.
> >> > >  Why do I get "?"?
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks in advance.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >
>

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