Rest call with special characters giving "Event request must have valid JSON body" error in java

Question

I'm trying to make a rest call from java. In request body, I have one field which contains special characters. If I execute this post request from java then its giving me "Event request must have valid JSON body" but when I execute same request from postman then I'm getting 200ok response. Here is the request

{
"header": {
    "headerVersion": 1,
    "eventName": "add-incident",
    "ownerId": "owner",
    "appName": "abc",
    "processNetworkId": "networkId",
    "dataspace": "default"
},
"payload": {
    "description": "Arvizturo tukorfurogepa€TM€¢ SchA1⁄4tzenstrasse a€¢",
    "summary": "adding one issue"

}
}

This is how I'm executing request in java

        String reqBody = "This is a json String cotaining same payload as above mentioned^^";
        HttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
                .setDefaultRequestConfig(
                        RequestConfig.custom().setCookieSpec(CookieSpecs.STANDARD).build()
                ).build();
        
        HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost("Adding URL here");
        StringEntity input = new StringEntity(reqBody);
        input.setContentType("application/json);
        postRequest.setEntity(input);
        postRequest.addHeader("Authorization","Bearer " + "Putting Authorisation Token Here");

        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(postRequest);

Does anyone know what changes i need to do in code to resolve this issue? Let me know if you want other information. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

To resolve this I just made the below change

String finalBody = new String(reqBody.getBytes("UTF-8"),"UTF-8");

I set the encoding of the HTTP request string to UTF-8. This resolved my issue.

    String reqBody = "This is a json String cotaining HTTP request payload";
    String finalBody = new String(reqBody.getBytes("UTF-8"),"UTF-8");
    HttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
            .setDefaultRequestConfig(
                    RequestConfig.custom().setCookieSpec(CookieSpecs.STANDARD).build()
            ).build();
    
    HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost("Adding URL here");
    StringEntity input = new StringEntity(finalBody, ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON);
    postRequest.setEntity(input);
    postRequest.addHeader("Authorization","Bearer " + "Putting Authorisation Token Here");

    HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(postRequest);