problem in getting Japanese Characters from HttpServletRequest

[priby mathew]

Greetings to all,

I am trying to get the Japanese characters from HttpServletRequest. But I get it as question marks. The following is the code snippet that I use:

 public void doPost(HttpServletRequest httpservletrequest, HttpServletResponse httpservletresponse)
        throws ServletException, IOException
{
 
System.out.println("Request Character Encoding******" + httpservletrequest.getCharacterEncoding());
 
 httpservletrequest.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
 

   if(httpservletrequest.getContentLength() > 0)
        {
            byte abyte0[] = new byte[httpservletrequest.getContentLength()];
            ByteArrayOutputStream bytearrayoutputstream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(httpservletrequest.getContentLength());
            for(int i = -1; (i = httpservletrequest.getInputStream().read(abyte0, 0, httpservletrequest.getContentLength())) != -1 :wink: 
                bytearrayoutputstream.write(abyte0, 0, i);
 
String sXmlInput = new String(bytearrayoutputstream.toByteArray(), "UTF-8");
 
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("C:\\testing.xml");
PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(fos, true, "UTF-8");
ps.print(sXmlInput);
ps.close();
 

}
 
}

In the above code When I display the encoding of the incoming httpServletRequest it is showing as null. So I have set it to UTF-8 encoding.

But when I write it a file, i am getting japanese characters as ???.

ANy help appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Priby

[priby mathew]

In the above code, the for loop statement is as follows:

for(int i = -1; (i = httpservletrequest.getInputStream().read(abyte0, 0, httpservletrequest.getContentLength())) != -1; )

Thanks
priby

[Amit Ghorpade]

Recently there was a similar discussion here.
See if this solves your problem.


Hope this helps

[priby mathew]

Thanks Amit for your reply

I checked the page that you suggested but they say to set the required encoding as

ServletRequest.setCharacterEncoding(String enc)

which I had already done in my code.

Moreover I am not fetching the Japanese data from a JSP page. Another application is sending the Japanese data to my application.

Thanks
priby

[Amit Ghorpade]

Another application is sending the Japanese data to my application.

Then if you have done the encoding stuff, you need to make sure that the another application has also done it in proper way.

Hope this helps