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Pass Chinese character through CMLAppAspect class

liao1108 — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:06:23 GMT

I am going to upload a excel file onto Alfresco 2.1 through remote web service, file name and description are the parameter of CMLAddAspect class. But unfortunately, some character (such as 0x6) happen to conflict with XML that make SAXParser stops. Anyone konws how to avoid or encrypt these charc

Re: Pass Chinese character through CMLAppAspect class

rwetherall — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:11:05 GMT

Hi,

I'm afraid this isn't something I've encountered.

Perhaps you could package your example into a Unit test that we can execute here. That will help us determine whether this can be resolved with some configuration or whether we have a bug.

Cheers,
Roy

Re: Pass Chinese character through CMLAppAspect class

gblomqui — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:46:10 GMT

We reproduced the same problem with Alfresco 2.0 running on JBoss.

To reproduce, change the

org.alfresco.sample.webservice.SamplesBase‍

class in the Alfresco Web Services SDK Samples to include

Utils.createNamedValue(Constants.PROP_TITLE, "Ã£Æ’â€˜Ã£Æ’Â¼Ã£Æ’Ë†Ã£Æ’Å Ã£Æ’Â¼Ã£Æ’â€”Ã£Æ’ÂÃ£Æ’â€¢Ã£â€šÂ¡Ã£â€šÂ¤Ã£Æ’Â«Ã£‍

Re: Pass Chinese character through CMLAppAspect class

gblomqui — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:55:55 GMT

A bit of clarification,

The text I used as the title combines Katakana, Hirigana, Kanji, the numeral "3", and spaces. We tried weeding out various parts of the statement by alphabet type, and realized this:

Re: Pass Chinese character through CMLAppAspect class

gblomqui — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:56:01 GMT

Using TCP Monitor we've been able to find that the SOAP Envelope is getting decoded on the client before it gets sent across the wire. At least, TCP Monitor is showing the SOAP Envelope with the decoded (and munged) characters.

When debugging and stepping through the client code, I can see that the multibyte characters are encoded as XML entities (for instance "パ" for "Ã£Æ’â€˜" and "情" for "Ã¦Æ’â€¦").

However, since TCP Monitor is showing the decoded (and munged) characters, I suspect that somewhere along the line, Axis is realizing that the character set encoding of the SOAP Envelope is UTF-8 and decodes the Envelope before transmission. But, we're still tracking that down.

Re: Pass Chinese character through CMLAppAspect class

gblomqui — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:05:47 GMT

We believe the culprit is xmlsec 1.4.0 after reading:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41462

The Canonicalization engine in xmlsec was revamped between versions 1.4.0 and 1.4.1.

I just downloaded the Alfresco 2.1 SDK and saw that it still includes xmlsec 1.4.0. I strongly suggest moving to xmlsec 1.4.1 to fix this issue.

Re: Pass Chinese character through CMLAppAspect class

rwetherall — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:04:07 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for investigating this thus far.

If this updated jar fixes this issue please let us know and we'll look at upgrading the jar before the next release.

Cheers,
Roy

Re: Pass Chinese character through CMLAppAspect class

gblomqui — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:31:34 GMT

No problem. Glad to help.

We replaced the xmlsec-1.4.0 library with xmlsec-1.4.1 and it solved our problem. We're now able to submit "Ã£Æ’â€˜Ã£Æ’Â¼Ã£Æ’Ë†Ã£Æ’Å Ã£Æ’Â¼Ã£Æ’â€”Ã£Æ’ÂÃ£Æ’â€¢Ã£â€šÂ¡Ã£â€šÂ¤Ã£Æ’Â«Ã£

Re: Pass Chinese character through CMLAppAspect class

fiki — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:14:28 GMT

I had a similar problem… In my custom application I tried to perform a search against the Alfresco repository using web services. When the search string included slovenian characters (Ã„