Please help me with a question about WC1 API and special characters

vitor.valerio

Hello,
I was testing our implementation in Java with a simple request to the Pilot environment, using a POST request to the uri (rms-world-check-one-api-pilot.thomsonreuters.com/v1/cases) and was getting a response back with the unauthorized 401 error when I sent a name with special character.
But this error only happend when I sent a name with special character like in the example:

{
...
"providerTypes":["WATCHLIST"],
"name":"Tést"
}

If I send a company name without special character, the test works.
Testing in postman it works even with special character, but I can't see why.
Thanks
Vitor

brian.bourgault

Hi @vitor.valerio,

You must ensure your code is utf-8 and the byte count is encoded.

var contentLength = unescape(encodeURIComponent(content)).length;

Hope this helps,
Brian

vitor.valerio

I set the content length like this:
"return text.getBytes().length;"

and returned the same value of postman

saha.shilpi1

Hi @vitor.valerio,

In java you can handle special character using below line of code.

String value = new String(jsonBody.getBytes("UTF-8"))

The value of jsonBody is given below.

String jsonBody = "{\"secondaryFields\":[],\"entityType\":\"INDIVIDUAL\",\"customFields\":[],\"groupId\":\"418f28a7-b9c9-4ae4-8530-819c61b1ca6c\",\"providerTypes\":[\"WATCHLIST\"],\"name\":\"Tést\"}";

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Shilpi