[Resteasy-users] Encoding Problems with Strings

[Knut H. <knu...@to...>]

Hi,

I have a problem, that my service should always respond in UTF-8 and I 
set the @Produces accordingly (
"...;charset=UTF-8")). My service method returns a string containing 
german umlauts.
Unfortunately, the service returns those umlauts encoded in ISO8859-1 
(or so) and not in UTF-8.
I did a litte debugging and found out that the StringTextStar writeTo 
method does a o.getBytes() on the result String, but
does not provide the required codeset, or alternatively the 
entityStream.write does not use a codeset, so that I assume
it takes the codeset from the locale the server runs in. In my view, the 
writeTo() method should use the codeset as specified
in the mediaType (if given). Do you have easy methods to extract the 
charset from the mediaType?
To test, just write a little hello world service:
<code>
    @GET
    @Path("/hello")
    @Produces("text/plain;charset=UTF-8")
    public String hello(@Context HttpServletRequest request) {
        return "Hallo schnöde Welt!" + request.toString();
    }
</code>

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