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

I have solved this problem. I need to POST a string object in request body with UTF-8.

text/plain

httpHeaders.setContentType(new MediaType("text", "plain", StandardCharsets.UTF_8));

applicaton/json

httpHeaders.setContentType(new MediaType("applicaton", "json", StandardCharsets.UTF_8));

RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
ResponseEntity resposeEntity = null;

HttpHeaders httpHeaders = new HttpHeaders();
httpHeaders.setContentType(new MediaType("text", "plain", StandardCharsets.UTF_8));

HttpEntity httpEntity = new HttpEntity(stringContent, httpHeaders);
responseEntity = restTemplate.exchange(requestUrl, HttpMethod.POST, httpEntity, String.class);

if (HttpStatus.OK.equals(responseEntity.getStatusCode())) {
    logger.debug("... success ... result: " + responseEntity.getBody());
}