JSF request scope form encoded to HTML entities

Question

This is similar to question about charset validation except that some characters (e.g. "żźć") are shown as HTML entities ("żźć") after submit. Strange thing is things like "&" save as "&".

I've already tried Spring's CharacterEncodingFilter and Connector on Tomcat side but that didn't seem to help at all. Database encoding doesn't seem to be a problem as my form is working fine when used with AJAX request and a session bean (as opposed to normal submit and request scope).

Here is a part of my form:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
      xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
      xmlns:p="http://primefaces.org/ui"
      xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
      >
  <h:body>
   <ui:composition template="/tpls/main-layout.xhtml">
   <ui:define name="content">
    <h:form>
    ...
     <p:commandButton value="#{i18n.msg('_Save')}"
      action="view" actionListener="#{readerController.save}" ajax="false" />
    ...
     <p:panelGrid>
      <p:row>
       <p:column><h:outputLabel for="lastName" value="#{i18n.msg('Reader.lastName')}" /></p:column>
       <p:column><p:inputText id="lastName" value="#{readerController.currentReader.lastName}" required="true">
        <p:ajax update="msg-lastName" event="change" />
        <f:validateRegex pattern="#{applicationConfiguration.nameValidationPattern}" />
        <f:validateLength maximum="50" />
       </p:inputText></p:column>
       <p:column><p:message for="lastName" id="msg-lastName" /></p:column>
      </p:row>
      ...
     </p:panelGrid>
    </h:form>
  </ui:define>
  </ui:composition>
</h:body>
</html>

EDIT: Just as a clarification - you can replace things like #{i18n.msg('_Save')} with Save and #{applicationConfiguration.nameValidationPattern} with e.g. [^0-9].

Yes I had that previously and tried `f:view` too. Unfortunately none of them help. — Nux, Jul 17 '12 at 14:38
Of course it won't help, the meta http-equiv head is ignored on HTTP requests. The f:view encoding only controls the response encoding which defaults to UTF-8 already. — BalusC, Jul 17 '12 at 14:43
I was trying out the approach "every logical way seem to have failed - let's try everything else" ;-). — Nux, Jul 17 '12 at 15:39

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

Totally magic.

I was using this to go to my edit view:

<p:commandButton action="#{readerController.edit(list.id)}" title="#{i18n.msg('_Edit')}" icon="ui-icon-gear" />

And this to submit:

<p:commandButton ajax="false" value="#{i18n.msg('_Save')}" action="view" actionListener="#{readerController.save}" />

And encoding doesn't work right.

Using this to go to edit view:

<p:commandButton ajax="false" action="#{readerController.edit(list.id)}" title="#{i18n.msg('_Edit')}" icon="ui-icon-gear" />

And the same to submit and encoding work fine... To be more exact using ajax="false" or ajax="true" on both ends work.

Go figure.

Edit: Actually it was the above and CharacterEncodingFilter from Corrupted characters redisplayed in inputs after submitting form.

JSF request scope form encoded to HTML entities

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