Re: Configuring Struts to use UTF-8 character encoding
To muddy the waters a little further! If for some reason (e.g. you are writing a JSR168 portlet) you cannot use a servlet filters to force UTF-8 encoding, you can alternatively use a ServletRequestListener. HTH Mark Adam Gordon wrote: So, for posterity, we finally got this working. After several days of playing around with a sandbox Struts application that worked, but our webapp that didn't, we finally realized that the ORDER of the filters matters (duh...). We put the character encoding filter first in our chain and it fixed everything. The problem was it was initially #3 in the chain and in filter #2 I was reading parameters off the request to look for specific parameters to mitigate another bug we'd found in production and apparently, whether by design or otherwise, once you read parameters off the request setting the character encoding afterwards appears to have no effect. As mentioned above, moving the character encoding filter to #1 in the chain fixed it. Adam Gordon wrote: I didn't know that page existed though it's essentially what I wound up doing. My only concern now is that it affects our entire webapp and while QA was going to do a full regression anyway, I'm wondering what potential problems are now lurking in the deep, dark corners of our web forms... Thanks for the link. --adam Ted Husted wrote: On Nov 28, 2007 10:53 AM, Adam Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about the use of a filter to set the character encoding? Is this the only way to go for Struts? I'd say so. It might be possible to add something to the ActionServlet, but the solution wouldn't be any less "heavy handed" than using a filter. This sort of thing is why filters were invented :) There's a page on the Tomcat wiki that talks about setting up a UTF filter, if you haven't seen it. * http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Tomcat/UTF-8 -Ted. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Struts to use UTF-8 character encoding
So, for posterity, we finally got this working. After several days of playing around with a sandbox Struts application that worked, but our webapp that didn't, we finally realized that the ORDER of the filters matters (duh...). We put the character encoding filter first in our chain and it fixed everything. The problem was it was initially #3 in the chain and in filter #2 I was reading parameters off the request to look for specific parameters to mitigate another bug we'd found in production and apparently, whether by design or otherwise, once you read parameters off the request setting the character encoding afterwards appears to have no effect. As mentioned above, moving the character encoding filter to #1 in the chain fixed it. Adam Gordon wrote: I didn't know that page existed though it's essentially what I wound up doing. My only concern now is that it affects our entire webapp and while QA was going to do a full regression anyway, I'm wondering what potential problems are now lurking in the deep, dark corners of our web forms... Thanks for the link. --adam Ted Husted wrote: On Nov 28, 2007 10:53 AM, Adam Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about the use of a filter to set the character encoding? Is this the only way to go for Struts? I'd say so. It might be possible to add something to the ActionServlet, but the solution wouldn't be any less "heavy handed" than using a filter. This sort of thing is why filters were invented :) There's a page on the Tomcat wiki that talks about setting up a UTF filter, if you haven't seen it. * http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Tomcat/UTF-8 -Ted. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Struts to use UTF-8 character encoding
I didn't know that page existed though it's essentially what I wound up doing. My only concern now is that it affects our entire webapp and while QA was going to do a full regression anyway, I'm wondering what potential problems are now lurking in the deep, dark corners of our web forms... Thanks for the link. --adam Ted Husted wrote: On Nov 28, 2007 10:53 AM, Adam Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about the use of a filter to set the character encoding? Is this the only way to go for Struts? I'd say so. It might be possible to add something to the ActionServlet, but the solution wouldn't be any less "heavy handed" than using a filter. This sort of thing is why filters were invented :) There's a page on the Tomcat wiki that talks about setting up a UTF filter, if you haven't seen it. * http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Tomcat/UTF-8 -Ted. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Struts to use UTF-8 character encoding
On Nov 28, 2007 10:53 AM, Adam Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What about the use of a filter to set the character encoding? Is this > the only way to go for Struts? I'd say so. It might be possible to add something to the ActionServlet, but the solution wouldn't be any less "heavy handed" than using a filter. This sort of thing is why filters were invented :) There's a page on the Tomcat wiki that talks about setting up a UTF filter, if you haven't seen it. * http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/Tomcat/UTF-8 -Ted. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring Struts to use UTF-8 character encoding
Right, hence my last comment in the second paragraph... Incidentally, I saw that web page yesterday and was the one who added the anonymous posting about the URIEncoding attribute not appearing to do anything. What about the use of a filter to set the character encoding? Is this the only way to go for Struts? --adam Martin Gainty wrote: Adam- remember the URI_Encoding for your mod_jk connector http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Tomcat's+URI+encodin g M-- - Original Message - From: "Adam Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:09 PM Subject: Configuring Struts to use UTF-8 character encoding Anyone know if there's a configuration parameter somewhere in Struts 1.2.9 that configures the requests to use UTF-8 character encoding? Everything I've found on the web says that Tomcat uses ISO-8859-1 as the default character encoding and that the "fix" is to add a filter that simply sets the character encoding on every request and it works, but it seems a bit heavy-handed. Reading the Tomcat configuration pages (for 5.5) talks about setting the URIEncoding attribute on the Connector element but that doesn't appear to have any effect in my sandbox application. It's possible it's needed for when running Tomcat behind Apache. What about adding the afore mentioned code to our webapp's action servlet or is this basically a glorified filter in the case where a webapp is really only using Struts - which our webapp is? Thoughts? --adam - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuring Struts to use UTF-8 character encoding
Anyone know if there's a configuration parameter somewhere in Struts 1.2.9 that configures the requests to use UTF-8 character encoding? Everything I've found on the web says that Tomcat uses ISO-8859-1 as the default character encoding and that the "fix" is to add a filter that simply sets the character encoding on every request and it works, but it seems a bit heavy-handed. Reading the Tomcat configuration pages (for 5.5) talks about setting the URIEncoding attribute on the Connector element but that doesn't appear to have any effect in my sandbox application. It's possible it's needed for when running Tomcat behind Apache. What about adding the afore mentioned code to our webapp's action servlet or is this basically a glorified filter in the case where a webapp is really only using Struts - which our webapp is? Thoughts? --adam - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
