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

Example code for your Application.java class, as proposed in the comments above:

@Bean
public FilterRegistrationBean filterRegistrationBean() {
    FilterRegistrationBean registrationBean = new FilterRegistrationBean();
    CharacterEncodingFilter characterEncodingFilter = new CharacterEncodingFilter();
    characterEncodingFilter.setForceEncoding(true);
    characterEncodingFilter.setEncoding("UTF-8");
    registrationBean.setFilter(characterEncodingFilter);
    return registrationBean;
}

Answer 2

I also prefer application.properties configuration. But spring.http.encoding is depracted in the new spring boot versions (>2.3). So new application.setting should look like this:

server.servlet.encoding.charset=UTF-8
server.servlet.encoding.enabled=true
server.servlet.encoding.force=true

Answer 3

I think there is no need to explicity write the following properties in application.properties file:

spring.http.encoding.charset=UTF-8

spring.http.encoding.enabled=true

spring.http.encoding.force=true

Instead if you go to pom.xml in your application and if you have the following, then spring will do the needful.

Answer 4

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