[jira] [Commented] (AXIS-2342) Reopen issue: Character entities are escaped too aggressively

["Rajani Gundimeda (JIRA)" <ax...@ws.apache.org>]

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Rajani Gundimeda commented on AXIS-2342:
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We were facing this issue in our product and below is the workaround that I found.
I hope this helps and let me know if there is anything better that I can do.

We have a web service operation where the response parameter is a xml string (data type xs:string).
When the response xml string contains a multi byte character, axis escapes that to a multi char hex bytes.

For example 
1) If the response contains a Japanese char 功 whose UTF-8 hex values are E5 8A 9F.
2) I have checked the java code just before we return the response string and its hex byte representation was E5 8A 9F 
3) But( RPCProvider of) Axis 1.3 was escaping the 功 char to E5 160 178 i,e : 功 (which was not expected)
4) When I changed the java VM arguments as -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8, Axis escaped the chars to 0x529F, which is not expected either,
5) But when I set the java VM arguments as -Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-1 and started the server. Axis was escaping  功 char to  E5 8A 9F i,e : 功

I used -Dfile.encoding=ISO-8859-1 as work around.

But I wonder why didn't UTF-8 setting work?
Is there any else that I can do/configure Axis to support or escape the bytes to UTF-8 encoding only?

For the above testing I used : JBoss, Axis 1.3, Windows 7 (Default Windows code page was Cp1252)

Thanks
Rajani
 




                
> Reopen issue: Character entities are escaped too aggressively
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AXIS-2342
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2342
>             Project: Axis
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Serialization/Deserialization
>    Affects Versions: 1.0
>         Environment: Operating System: All
> Platform: All
>            Reporter: Thiago Jung Bauermann
>         Attachments: AXIS_2342.diff, PATCH_2342.txt, TESTCASE_2342.txt, TEST_2342.diff
>
>
> We are using SOAP to send XML documents from client to server and back. The 
> documents contain a lot of non-ASCII data. This is encoded as UTF-8 by us. 
> However, when retrieved from an Axis server, Axis will escape almost all of our 
> characters into character entities (so &#...;) This means messages become about 
> three times as big as they have to for 'international' documents, which for us 
> is a large performance problem. I narrowed down the problem to
>   XMLUtils::xmlEncodeString
> that has the code:
>                 if (((int)chars[i]) > 127) {
>                         strBuf.append("&#");
>                         strBuf.append((int)chars[i]);
>                         strBuf.append(";");
> This seems unnecessary to me, as Axis will send all messages in UTF-8 anyway, 
> for which no encoding is necessary (and should encoding be configurable, I feel 
> this should be escaped elsewhere).
> Is there any reason for this code, I commented it out and it seemed to have no 
> adverse effect on our application (apart from reduced network traffic)?
> Tested with 1.0, also looked up in the sources of 1.1-rc2.

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