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Compaq LE2202x
Compaq LE2202x

Reputation: 2386

How to send Japanese characters using HttpPost

I'm trying to send Japanese characters to my API server but the characters sent were garbled and became ????. So I set the encoding to the entity using:

    StringEntity stringEntity = new StringEntity(message, "UTF-8");

but the output became org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity@4316f850. I wonder if converting the stringEntity to string caused this since I want to send it in my server as String.

Here's how I used it:

public static String postSendMessage(String path, String message) throws Exception {
    DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpClient.getParams(), 10000); // Timeout limit
    HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(SystemInfo.getApiUrl() + path);
    List<NameValuePair> value = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();

    StringEntity stringEntity = new StringEntity(message, "UTF-8");
    value.add(new BasicNameValuePair("message", stringEntity.toString())); //Here's where I converted the stringEntity to string

    UrlEncodedFormEntity entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(value);
    httpPost.setEntity(entity);
    HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);

    HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();
    InputStream is = httpEntity.getContent();

    String result = convertStreamToString(is);
    return result;
}

Where could I have gone wrong?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2878

Answers (1)

Yuichi Araki
Yuichi Araki

Reputation: 3458

You don't need to use StringEntity.

List<NameValuePair> value = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
value.add(new BasicNameValuePair("message", message));

Instead, you have to pass a second argument for initializing `UrlEncodedFormEntity.

UrlEncodedFormEntity entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(value, "UTF-8");

Upvotes: 8

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