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user5917011
user5917011

Reputation: 1137

HttpResponse with special characters

I have written a REST client for this endpoint:

textmap.com/ethnicity_api/api

However, while passing it a name string like jennífer garcía in the POST params, and setting encoding to UTF-8, the response that I get is not the same string. How to get the same name in the response object? Below is how I set the request and the response thatI get:

httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
httpPost = new HttpPost(baseurl);
StringEntity input = new StringEntity(inputJSON, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
input.setContentType("application/json");
//input.setContentType("application/json; charset=UTF-8");
httpPost.setEntity(input);
response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);

if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != 200) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code : " + response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
}

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader((response.getEntity().getContent())));

output = org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.toString(br);
System.out.println(output);

Value of the name in output is : jenn�fer garc�a

This is a completely different charset from what I had sent in the request. How can I get the same charset as I had sent in request?

Secondly, I want the same code to work in both Java-6 and Java-7. The above code is using Java-7 only. How can I make the code work for both these versions?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4346

Answers (1)

DaSourcerer
DaSourcerer

Reputation: 6606

I think the BufferedReader is breaking the UTF8 encoding, so this is actually pretty unrelated to HTTP. On a side note, the br may not be needed at all.

Upvotes: 1

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