Re: How to simulate UTF-8 encoded request parameters

Hi Stefan,

That was my understanding. So if you're reporting a bug in HTTPUnit,
and you have a test case already, are you psyched to provide a patch
as well?

Cheers,

James

On 17/04/07, Stefan Hübner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> sorry for the late response, which I hope will reach you nevertheless.
> I will try to describe make my point more precisely.
>
> The problem *only* shows up, when rolling servlets inside HTTPunit (or
> the ServletRunner, to be more precisely). In Tomcat everything is
> fine, provided URIEncoding is set to UTF-8, of course.
>
> So what I am after is httpunit to behave exactly like tomcat
> configured with UTF-8-URIEncoding. That is: I want HttpUnit to
> url-encode request parameters using utf-8 when I send the request *and
> decode* them back into usefull values using utf-8-urldecoding when
> HttpServletRequest#getParameter(...) is invoked.
>
> My problem is, that I just can't get HttpUnit doing it that way. What
> I found httpunit does is, it encodes parameter values using utf-8
> (which I think is activated by
> HttpUnitOptions.setDefaultCharacterSet("utf-8");). But invoking
> HttpServletRequest#getParameter(...) from inside the servlet (running
> in httpunit) returns parameter values decoded using ISO-8859-1. This
> behaviour causes my servlet tests to fail when I test them using
> ServletRunner.
>
> Didn't the testcase provided serve as an example for the behaviour I'm
> struggling with? It doesn't really involve a servlet. But the fact
> alone, that request.getParameter() doesn't return what was expected,
> should have prooved httpunit doing strange things here. Doesn't it?
>
> It's here:
> >                 // Thought, this would simulate a containers URIEncoding-setting
> >                 HttpUnitOptions.setDefaultCharacterSet("utf-8");
> >
> >                 ServletRunner servletRunner = new ServletRunner();
> >
> >                 WebRequest request = new GetMethodWebRequest("http://localhost/dummy");
> >                 request.setParameter("param", "\u00e4\u00f6\u00fc");
> >
> >                 ServletUnitClient sc = servletRunner.newClient();
> >                 InvocationContext ic = sc.newInvocation(request);
> >                 HttpServletRequest httpRequest = ic.getRequest();
> >
> >                 // Test fails with "ComparisonFailure: expected: <äöü> but was: <äöü>"
> >                 assertEquals("äöü", httpRequest.getParameter("param"));
> >         }
>
> Did this help make my point slightly clearer to you?
>
>
> Thanks for trying to help me!
> Stefan
>
>
>
> 2007/4/12, James Abley <[email protected]>:
> > I haven't fully understood your problem.
> >
> > Is the problem with your Servlet, or is it with HTTPUnit?
> >
> > If it's your servlet, then potentially the container can be configured
> > to decode parameters using UTF-8 rather than Latin-1, or whatever.
> >
> > For example, see Tomcat, especially, the URIEncoding attribute on a Connector.
> >
> > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/http.html
> >
> > >From the sounds of your initial post, it sounds like you've done
> > something like this?
> >
> > Do you have test cases which are hitting the full servlet, rather than
> > something within HTTPUnit?
> >
> > James
> >
> > On 12/04/07, andresgr <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Google for "httpunit utf".
> > >
> > > :)
> > >
> > >
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