[AXISCPP-1027] Axis C++ client does not encode into UTF-8 in Windows

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.6 Beta
• Fix Version/s: unspecified
• Component/s: Client - Engine
• Environment: Windows XP
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Javier Cámara
• Created: 09/Mar/07 13:20
• Updated: 10/Mar/07 01:01
• Resolved: 10/Mar/07 01:01

Description

Am I wrong, or the Axis client does not do anything to encode characters in UTF-8 for Windows platforms?

My client is sending badly encoded messages like this one:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns1:consulta xmlns:ns1="imagine.webservices">
<arrayArray xmlns:enc="http://www.w3.org/2001/06/soap-encoding" enc:arrayType="xsd:string[1]">
<item>Castaña</item>
</arrayArray>
</ns1:consulta>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Which of course make the server fail. From what I have seen of HTTPTransport.cpp (also in the SVN http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/webservices/axis/trunk/c/src/transport/axis3/HTTPTransport.cpp?revision=509427), UTF-8 encoding is implemented only for AS/400 platforms.

If this is so, this mean that the calling code must take care of UTF-8 encoding.