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Re: Properties with multibyte characters

From: Jason Lee <jason.d.lee_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:18:00 -0600

That's a good question. Let me look into that.

Thanks.

On 12/15/10 9:24 AM, Tom Mueller wrote:
> Jason,
> I marked the second one (15151) as invalid because we have the "set"
> command for that. Is there a problem with using that?
>
> We'll need to look at the first one.
> Tom
>
>
> On 12/13/2010 7:18 PM, Jason Lee wrote:
>> This issue seem to drop off the radar (my fault) so I opened two
>> issues on it:
>>
>> GLASSFISH-15150
>> <http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-15150>Multibyte characters do
>> not appear to be supported in domain.xml
>> GLASSFISH-15151 <http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-15151>Need CLI
>> for manipulating properties
>>
>> I know this is late in the cycle, so please let me know how I can
>> help. I have basic AdminCommand authoring knowledge, which I'm happy
>> to put to use if you need me to.
>>
>> On 12/8/10 5:13 PM, Tom Mueller wrote:
>>> Well, the DomainXmlPersistence class has the following line:
>>>
>>> writer = xmlFactory.createXMLStreamWriter(new
>>> BufferedOutputStream(fos));
>>>
>>> where xmlFactory is the result of calling XMLFactory.newInstance().
>>>
>>> The javadocs for XMLOutputFactory are deficient in defining what
>>> encoding is used here. There is another createXMLStreamWriter method
>>> that takes the encoding as the second argument. So I suspect that
>>> the encoding you are getting is not UTF-8, but some other encoding
>>> that doesn't support multibyte characters.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> On 12/8/2010 4:19 PM, Jason Lee wrote:
>>>> I'm looking at this issue ATM:
>>>> http://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH-13641
>>>>
>>>> In short, if the user enters a multibyte value for a property name,
>>>> value, or description, it gets mangled when saved. I've verified
>>>> that the multibyte character String is passed correctly
>>>> browser->console->rest. In our REST code, we have this line of code:
>>>>
>>>> ConfigSupport.createAndSet((ConfigBean) parent, Property.class,
>>>> property);
>>>>
>>>> At this point, property is a Map with the correct
>>>> name/value/description values. However, somewhere inside (or
>>>> beyond) createAndSet(), the MB char String is mangled. It's
>>>> possible, I guess, that it could be an XML issue, and therein lies
>>>> my question: What do we need to do to allow the user to save a MB
>>>> character String? Is our REST code interacting with the HK2 DOM
>>>> correctly? I grepped what I felt might be likely places elsewhere
>>>> in the GF tree, but I can't find any similar scenarios.
>>>>
>>>> Any pointers would be much appreciated.
>>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jason Lee
>> Senior Member of Technical Staff
>> GlassFish REST API / Administration Console
>>
>> Oracle Corporation
>> Phone +1 405-216-3193
>> Bloghttp://blogs.steeplesoft.com


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Jason Lee
Senior Member of Technical Staff
GlassFish REST API / Administration Console
Oracle Corporation
Phone +1 405-216-3193
Blog http://blogs.steeplesoft.com