Java Spring resttemplate character encoding

Question

I\'m using the Java Spring Resttemplate for getting a json via a get request. The JSON I\'m getting has instead of special character slike ü ö ä or ß some weird stuff. So I

Answer 1

You just need to add the StringHttpMessageConverter to the template's message converters:

RestTemplate template = new RestTemplate();
template.getMessageConverters()
        .add(0, new StringHttpMessageConverter(Charset.forName("UTF-8")));
ResponseEntity