Re: [Httpunit-develop] CharToByteUTF-8 exception

[Russell G. <rus...@ac...>]

At 9:18 PM -0500 1/25/01, Ken MacLeod wrote:
>I'm receiving the following character conversion error using HttpTool,
>I suspect it's a version or configuration problem, but I'm new enough
>to Java to not be able to spot it, I'm hoping someone will know right
>off.
>
>1) testFrontPage(testx.ConsoleToolHttpTest)
>java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: sun.io.CharToByteUTF-8
>        at sun.io.CharToByteConverter.getConverterClass(CharToByteConverter=
=2Ejava:87)
>        at sun.io.CharToByteConverter.getConverter(CharToByteConverter.java=
:117)
>        at java.lang.String.getBytes(String.java:534)
>        at com.meterware.httpunit.ReceivedPage.getDOM(ReceivedPage.java:62)
>        at com.meterware.httpunit.ReceivedPage.<init>(ReceivedPage.java:44)
>        at com.meterware.httpunit.WebResponse.getReceivedPage(WebResponse.j=
ava:414)
>        at com.meterware.httpunit.WebResponse.getFrames(WebResponse.java:39=
7)
>        at com.meterware.httpunit.WebResponse.getFrameNames(WebResponse.jav=
a:160)
>        at com.meterware.httpunit.WebClient.updateFrames(WebClient.java:269=
)
>        at com.meterware.httpunit.WebClient.getResponse(WebClient.java:73)
>        at com.meterware.httpunit.WebClient.getResponse(WebClient.java:53)
>        at testx.ConsoleToolHttpTest.testFrontPage(ConsoleToolHttpTest.java=
:14)
>
>I'm running MacOS X Server 1.2, java 1.1.6, httpunit 1.2.1, and
>jtidy 04aug2000r6.
>
>If the problem is an older version of Java (a very good possibility),
>there's very little I can do about that right now.  I could maybe run
>the tests using a different java environment (different from my
>development environment), but I would prefer another workaround if
>that were the case.

I cannot say that I see it right off, but I have not tried running HttpUnit=
 on MacOS X Server. Naturally this is not made easier by the fact that it is=
 in the sun.io classes, for which AFAIK the source is not available...

The expression that is at the heart of this is:

pageText.getBytes( "UTF-8" )

I am wondering if there is a bug in your JDK's handling of UTF character=
 conversion. Unfortunately, while I know MacOS 8, I don't know anything=
 about MacOS X Server, which seems to be entirely different. If I were you,=
 I *would* try a different Java environment, if only to see if that is the=
 problem.  If not, perhaps we can track it down a different way.

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