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MikeSchoolik's avatar
MikeSchoolik
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago

Strip Out UTF-8 BOM out of responses

My responses have UTF-8 BOMs in them and that I need to constantly cut those characters out and then format the response. Is there a way that we can strip out them out of the response automatically?
SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
SmartBear_Suppo
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
Hi,

looking at your code, the following line does not look correct:
content = content.BomStrip(content)


You are using the content object (http://www.soapui.org/apidocs/com/eviwa ... ntent.html) which does not have the BomStrip method.

I would actually suggest you use another object from Bom maven plugin that you can instantiate and strip out UTF-8 BOMs here - http://www.java2s.com/Code/Jar/b/Downlo ... cesjar.htm


API ref: http://site.kuali.org/maven/plugins/bom ... index.html
adiman's avatar
adiman
Visitor
10 years ago

Hi all,

 

I had this problem recently and here is how I solved it:

 

Add a RequestFilter.afterRequest event and use the code below. The code strips the first char from the response. It doesn't check if the char is indeed the BOM, but strips it if the encoding is UTF-8. This assumes you always know your UTF-8 responses contain the BOM.

 

Be careful with the script, it will run for every request that you send. Add other exit conditions to the begining of the event that suit your purpose. 

 

if( context.httpResponse.responseContent == null )
  return

if(context.httpResponse.responseHeaders.get("Content-Encoding").toString() != "[utf-8]")
	return
	
// get response content
def content = context.httpResponse.responseContent

// manipulate content
// remove the first char from the response (in this case the utf-8 BOM)
content = content.substring(1,content.length())

// write it back 
context.httpResponse.responseContent = content