How to make SoapUI json request work with german umlauts?

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Mateusz Sobala picture Mateusz Sobala · Mar 22, 2016 · Viewed 8k times · Source

We use SoapUI for many interfaces in our team project. We came across a problem with german special signs, called umlauts. When sending a POST request with Json body and a german umlaut, the we get com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException. It cannot be parsed with com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.

SoapUI Json request

But when sending the same request using POSTMAN, then it works like a charm. Postman Json request

We use @Consumes({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON + "; charset=utf-8"}) annotations and Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 header. But still no effect. Has anyone ever came across such a problem or know how to solve it? We cannot change the testing tool.

Answer

Mateusz Sobala picture Mateusz Sobala · Mar 22, 2016

In SoapUI there is an additional property for setting the encoding of your request.

It is available under the tab Request Properties. Property: Encoding, Value: UTF-8.

Setting it as above solved our problem.

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