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MultipartEntityBuilder and Charset

I upgraded my httpmime package, and now my strings are not sent or received as UTF-8

MultipartEntityBuilder entity = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();
Charset chars = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
entity.setCharset(chars);
entity.addTextBody("some_text", some_text);

HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url); 
httppost.setEntity(entity.build());
...and so on..

what am I missing? I used to build a StringBody and set the charset in the stringbody, but that is deprecated now, and it just doesn't seem to work

Solution

  • Solved it :) it turns out that ContentType is now important, and I was sending text that was plain, and also some text that was JSON,

    for the plain text, you can use:

    entity.addTextBody("plain_text",plain_text,ContentType.TEXT_PLAIN);

    and for JSON:

    entity.addTextBody("json_text",json_text,ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON);

    that way the charset also works on JSON strings (weird, but now OK)