Hello,
The reader that HttpServletRequest#getReader returns
seems to decode characters not using the character encoding
set by ServletContext#setRequestCharacterEncoding(since Servlet 4.0).
My questions are:
1. Is this behavior intentional(e.g. for backward compatibility)?
2. If this behavior is intentional, is there any specification
describing such ServletContext#setRequestCharacterEncoding
and HttpServletRequest#getReader behaviors?
I have created a simple war application and tested
ServletContext#setRequestCharacterEncoding as follows.
[Environment]
Tomcat9.0.19 (I don't change any default configuration)
JDK11
Windows8.1
[index.html]
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<button type="button" id="the_button">post</button>
<script>
document.getElementById('the_button').addEventListener('click',
function() {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.open('POST', '/SimpleWarApp/app/simple');
xhttp.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
<!-- The body content is Japanese character '\u3042' -->
xhttp.send('あ');
});
</script>
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[InitServletContextListener.java]
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@WebListener
public class InitServletContextListener implements ServletContextListener {
@Override
public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {
sce.getServletContext().setRequestCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
}
}
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[SimpleServlet.java]
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@WebServlet("/app/simple")
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class SimpleServlet extends HttpServlet {
@Override
protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
throws ServletException, IOException {
System.out.println("requestCharacterEncoding : " +
req.getServletContext().getRequestCharacterEncoding());
System.out.println("req.getCharacterEncoding() : " +
req.getCharacterEncoding());
String hello = req.getParameter("hello");
if (hello != null) {
System.out.println("hello : " + req.getParameter("hello"));
} else {
System.out.println("body : " + req.getReader().readLine());
}
}
}
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I don't have any servlet filters.
The above three are all the components of this war application.
Here are the war application's console logs.
Case 1:
When I submit the form with a parameter 'hello',
the value of 'hello' is successfully decoded as follows.
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requestCharacterEncoding : UTF-8
req.getCharacterEncoding() : UTF-8
hello : あ
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Case 2:
When I click 'post' and send text content,
the request body cannot be successfully decoded as follows.
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requestCharacterEncoding : UTF-8
req.getCharacterEncoding() : UTF-8
body : ???
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Case 1 is OK,
but at Case 2, I expect for the request body to be successfully decoded
by the character encoding set by ServletContext#setRequestCharacterEncoding.
I originally posted the issue on StackOverflow.
There are a bit of more information there:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56087155/why-servletcontextsetrequestcharacterencoding-does-not-have-an-effect-on-htt
Thanks,
Tomoki
