jersey web service json utf-8 encoding

Question

I made a small Rest webservice using Jersey 1.11. When i call the url that returns Json, there are problems with the character encoding for non english characters. The corresponding url for Xml ("test.xml" makes it utf-8 in the starting xml-tag.

How can I make the url "test.json" return utf-8 encoded response?

Here's the code for the service:

@Stateless @Path("/") public class RestTest {        @EJB     private MyDao myDao;      @Path("test.xml/")     @GET     @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML )     public List<Profile> getProfiles() {             return myDao.getProfilesForWeb();     }      @Path("test.json/")     @GET     @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)     public List<Profile> getProfilesAsJson() {         return myDao.getProfilesForWeb();     } } 

This is the pojo that the service uses:

package se.kc.mimee.profile.model;  @XmlRootElement public class Profile {     public int id;     public String name;      public Profile(int id, String name) {         this.id = id;         this.name = name;     }      public Profile() {}  } 

Answer 1

Jersey should always produce utf-8 by default, sounds like the problem is that your client isn't interpreting it correctly (the xml declaration doesn't "make" it utf-8, just tells the client how to parse it).

What client are you seeing these problems with?

Valid JSON is only supposed to be Unicode (utf-8/16/32); parsers should be able to detect the encoding automatically (of course, some don't), so there is no encoding declaration in JSON.

You can add it to the Content-Type like so:

@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON + ";charset=utf-8")