Spring Integration http outbound-gateway and UTF-8

Question

I'm trying to use Spring Integration to load a multilingual XML file from the web. Unfortunately, it appears that Spring Integration is treating it as some other form of encoding. Here's the relevant part of my config:

<int-http:outbound-gateway id="example"
    request-channel="requests"
    url="http://localhost/test.xml"
    http-method="GET"
    expected-response-type="java.lang.String"
    charset="UTF-8"
    reply-timeout="1234"
    reply-channel="replies"/>

The text I retrieve is treated like it's ISO-8859-1. The reason I believe this, is because if I recode and then decode, I get the correct text. Something like this:

public void handleReply(String rawXML) {
    String forRealzies = "";
    try {
        String hack1 = URLEncoder.encode(rawXML, "ISO-8859-1");
        forRealzies = URLDecoder.decode(hack1, "UTF-8");
    } catch(UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }
    // forRealzies now has the properly encoded String
}

I'm really hoping I'm doing something wrong in the XML config. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You should set the charset on the content-type ; see here .