Setting default charset in StringHttpMessageConverter [SPR-7904]

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Thomas Ziem opened SPR-7904 and commented

Currently, StringHttpMessageConverter uses ISO-8859-1 as default charset for reading and writing:

public static final Charset DEFAULT_CHARSET = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");

protected String readInternal(Class clazz, HttpInputMessage inputMessage) throws IOException {
    MediaType contentType = inputMessage.getHeaders().getContentType();
    Charset charset = contentType.getCharSet() != null ? contentType.getCharSet() : DEFAULT_CHARSET;
    return FileCopyUtils.copyToString(new InputStreamReader(inputMessage.getBody(), charset));
}

It would be nice if it could be configured from outside.

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Affects: 3.0.5

Issue Links:

• Backport constructor accepting Charset in StringHttpMessageConverter, from Spring for Android to Spring Web. [SPR-9487] #14122 Backport constructor accepting Charset in StringHttpMessageConverter, from Spring for Android to Spring Web. ("duplicates")
• Make it easier to add new Message Converters to AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter [SPR-7504] #12161 Make it easier to add new Message Converters to AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter

Backported to: 3.1.2

3 votes, 1 watchers

[spring-projects-issues]

Rossen Stoyanchev commented

I think SPR-7504 will help.

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Srđan Šrepfler commented

Please take into account this is used by spring integration as well so there should be a way to configure this which is not bound to the mvc framework.