How to configure CharacterEncodingFilter in SpringBoot?

Question

I encountered some encoding problems in learning Spring Boot; I want to add a CharacterEncodingFilter like Spring 3.x. just like this:

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Answer 1

Since Spring Boot 1.4.2 registering your own CharacterEncodingFilter will work ONLY IF you disable Spring's own instance of this bean by setting spring.http.encoding.enabled=false in the application.properties.

However, one can resolve this matter without any Filter instantiation by adding these setting to the application.properties:

# Charset of HTTP requests and responses. Added to the "Content-Type" header if not set explicitly.
spring.http.encoding.charset=UTF-8
# Enable http encoding support.
spring.http.encoding.enabled=true
# Force the encoding to the configured charset on HTTP requests and responses.
spring.http.encoding.force=true

Source: Appendix A. Common application properties