[CXF-7491] TransformInInterceptor / TransformOutInterceptor assume UTF-8, ignore header-provided character set

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.11, 3.1.12
• Component/s: Soap Binding

Environment

client Linux/Java/CXF (actually scala using sbt-play-soap)
server IBMi AS/400

• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Cyrille Chépélov
• Created: 31/Aug/17 10:37
• Updated: 01/Dec/17 16:10

Description

When talking to a server using IBMi / RPG-based software and SOAP gateway:
the returned SOAP message contains XML encoded as ISO-8859-1; the HTTP header do specify a content type of xml+soap with character set ISO-8859-1; however the XML message itself include no character set declaration.

Due to discrepancies between the official WSDL for the SOAP message and the remote implementation, a couple transforms had to be deployed. This works fine as long as the exchanged messages actually conform to US-ASCII (no diacritics), but whenever any character encoded differently between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 is used, the TransformInInterceptor fails to parse the text, as the XMLStreamReader is built to expect UTF-8 and actually receives ISO-8859-1 input

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #309
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #309