Jackson error “Illegal character… only regular white space allowed” when parsing JSON

Question

I am trying to retrieve JSON data from a URL but get the following error:

Illegal character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 31)):
only regular white space (\\r, \\n,\\t) i         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem. After setting Gzip it was fixed. Please refer my code

public String sendPostRequest(String req) throws Exception {

    // Create connection
    URL urlObject = new URL(mURL);
    HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) urlObject.openConnection();
    connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", Integer.toString(req.getBytes().length));
    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Language", "en-US");
    connection.setUseCaches(false);
    connection.setDoOutput(true);

    // Send request
    DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());
    wr.writeBytes(req);
    wr.close();

    //Response handling
    InputStream responseBody                = null;
    if (isGzipResponse(connection)) {
        responseBody                = new GZIPInputStream(connection.getInputStream());         
    }else{
        responseBody = connection.getInputStream();
    }
    convertStreamToString(responseBody);

    return response.toString();

}

protected boolean isGzipResponse(HttpURLConnection con) {
    String encodingHeader = con.getHeaderField("Content-Encoding");
    return (encodingHeader != null && encodingHeader.toLowerCase().indexOf("gzip") != -1);
}

public void convertStreamToString(InputStream in) throws Exception {
    if (in != null) {

        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
        int length = 0;
        while ((length = in.read(buffer)) != -1) {
            baos.write(buffer, 0, length);
        }

        response = new String(baos.toByteArray());

        baos.close();

    } else {
        response = null;
    }

}