Grails request parameters encoding issue in Tomcat

Question

My grails app will not decode request parameters correctly.

In config.groovy:

grails.views.gsp.encoding = "UTF-8"
grails.converters.encoding = "UTF-8"

All my gsp's use contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" on the page directive as well as <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> in the head element.

However, when i receive the posted parameters from the param object in my controller, the app just prints garbage...

I'm using Grails 1.3.7 version deployed over Tomcat 5. Other installed plugins except tomcat:

hibernate 1.3.7 jquery 1.7.1 spring-security-core 1.2.6 webxml 1.4

EDIT: From further debugging, i've noticed that the app will run fine in jetty. Therefore i suspect it must be a tomcat issue. My issue is similar to this post (alas i'm not using the Shiro plugin).

Can anyone help with this?

Is the content in the database garbage, or only what's printed out? Do you have the webxml plugin installed (run `grails list-plugins --installed`)? — Peter Ledbrook, Feb 07 '12 at 17:03
from further debugging the problem is in the web tier. The submitted values by the time they reach the controller they are already garbage. — Lefteris Laskaridis, Feb 07 '12 at 17:43
My installed plugins are: hibernate 1.3.7, tomcat, jquery 1.7.1, spring-security-core 1.2.6, and webxml 1.4 — Lefteris Laskaridis, Feb 07 '12 at 18:30

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 08 '12 at 01:50

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You need to add URIEncoding='UTF-8' to the Connector elements in conf/server.xml, e.g.

<Connector port='8080' protocol='HTTP/1.1' connectionTimeout='20000'
           redirectPort='8443' URIEncoding='UTF-8' />

This is described here: https://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding

answered Feb 08 '12 at 01:50

Burt Beckwith

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Thanks for your reply. My problem is with POST parameters actually. If i understood the FAQ correctly URIEncoding applies to GET parameters only. Nevertheless, i gave it a shot but didn't work either. It might be a long shot but could it be the order of filters in my generated web.xml? In there i have the following filters in that order: springSecurityFilterChain -> sitemesh -> charEncodingFilter -> urlMapping -> hiddenHttpMethod -> grailsWebRequest – Lefteris Laskaridis Feb 10 '12 at 11:52
Sorry, I didn't catch that you're using webxml 1.4 - you need to use 1.4.1 which fixes this charEncodingFilter order bug. You also need to upgrade to a later version of Spring Security Core, so you should use 1.2.7.2 (the latest). – Burt Beckwith Feb 10 '12 at 15:02
@BurtBeckwith Is there a way to set this `URIEncoding` to `UTF-8` directly in Grails so that we don't have to apply this change to tomcat in each server? – Shashank Agrawal Oct 14 '15 at 13:17
No, you can't configure the server from inside a war file. – Burt Beckwith Oct 14 '15 at 16:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 17 '12 at 08:19

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edit application.properties
add(update) line:
plugins.webxml=1.4.1

edited Dec 17 '12 at 08:19

talha2k

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answered Dec 17 '12 at 07:54

Viktor Nazarov

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 01 '14 at 21:28

As fas as no final conclusion made, I'd like to share my expierence in the same situation. Here one can find more discussion.

I my case, I have dev environment under the windows on local pc including local MySQL. Production env - Centos 6, MySQL, Tomcat 6 behind Apache.

In dev environment - everything was o'k, but on production - no. The only thing that help me - was set autoreconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8 additionally to recommendations both for Tomcat URIEncoding='UTF-8'

So, the problem was in correct settings java Driver for MySQL.

Grails request parameters encoding issue in Tomcat

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