Custom converter for @RequestParam in Spring MVC

Question

I am getting an encrypted String as Query parameter to a Spring rest controller method.

I wanted to decrypt the string before it reaches the method based on some annotat

Answer 1

You can try by adding a CharacterEncodingFilter with init-param encoding UTF-8 in web.xml file. Check out this example.

However If it still doesn't work, you can force encoding by adding the below param along with above init-param.

        forceEncoding
        true

Let me know If It works for you.