topic Re: Encoding issues with webscript in Alfresco Forum

Encoding issues with webscript

upforsin — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:57:13 GMT

Hello,I wrote up a repo webscript which uses some Java logic to pass data to the Freemarker template.Everything works great when I use I on the Alfresco Community Edition 6.1.2 on Docker.However, when I try to apply my webscript (using .amp files) to the Alfresco Community Edition 6.1.2 without Dock

Re: Encoding issues with webscript

afaust — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:09:28 GMT

I have never seen this kind of behaviour as web scripts backed by Freemarker templates typically stream in the in-memory String result of said web script, and since Java uses Unicode internally, that has always been UTF-8 for me - and I have been using Windows-based systems for development extensively, until recently.

Are you by any chance using temporary file storage as a buffer for the template output, e.g. streaming the result from the locally stored file instead from the in-memory String? That way I could imagine the Windows encoding could creep in somehow...

Re: Encoding issues with webscript

upforsin — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:20:01 GMT

Strange, but Java indeed was the case. I also thought it uses UTF-8 by default but it seems like it was not. I had to add Java parameter

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

Re: Encoding issues with webscript

afaust — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 12:45:16 GMT

Java always uses Unicode internally, BUT if you read / write from/to files and do not explicitly specify the file encodings as part of that read / write, then it will use the system encoding by default, unless configured via the -D flag you mentioned. Even though my development environment runs on Windows, I have ensured that all files I read / write during development or Alfresco runtime are properly maintained and accessed using UTF-8 even without that -D parameter.

Re: Encoding issues with webscript

upforsin — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 14:03:56 GMT

Alright, thank you for the advice. Just like you said, previously I forgot to specify the file encodings while reading a file. Specifying it, also solved the issue.

Re: Encoding issues with webscript

swapna31 — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:09:29 GMT

Thanks for the information..!!