I have built a Restful web service using Spring MVC 4.0.1. The controller is returning response of every English words and characters in a browser. But every individual character that are NON-ENGLISH are being returned as ?.
For e.g. for नेपाल (Nepali word pronouncing Nepal) it is returning as ????.
Here's my RestController class:
@RestController
public class TestController {
private final ApplicationContext applicationContext;
@Autowired
public TestController(ApplicationContext applicationContext) {
this.applicationContext = applicationContext;
}
@RequestMapping(value = {"/test/{test}"})
public String getLatestCategoryNews(
@PathVariable("categories") String categories,
@RequestParam String test)
{
return "नेपाल";
}
}
Here's my dispatcher-servlet.xml:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-4.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.billions.news.web.controller"/>
<mvc:annotation-driven />
Here's my web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.1"
xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd">
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>
30
</session-timeout>
</session-config>
Here's my application-context.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd>
<context:property-placeholder location="application.properties"/>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.test.web"/>
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter" />
When I return reponse converting it to the json string using json-io, in IDE console I can get the desired text. But when I receive the response in Browser it gets converted back to '????'. It annoys me a lot.
I used following too on @RequesMapping:
method = RequestMethod.GET,
produces = MediaType.ALL_VALUE
But it still produces the same response with '????'.
I tried loads of solution out there on the web including filters. But none of them helped.
I am using tomcat as a server.
Is there a way so that I can get response in any language out there including English in spring-mvc restcontroller.
EDIT:
Following solved the issue: All I had to do was to replace
<mvc:annotation-driven />
with
<mvc:annotation-driven >
<mvc:message-converters>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter">
<property name="supportedMediaTypes" value="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
</bean>
</mvc:message-converters>
</mvc:annotation-driven>
