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?
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- Hi,
Presently that is not possible unfortunately. But we do have this as a feature request (SOAP-651). It is up to our product owner who will decide on when to implement it into SoapUI Pro for a future release.
Thanks,
Giscard
SmartBear Support - Unfortunately, the handling of UTF-8 is something which I need for testing. If you don't support this, I will have to seek another product which does support it.
- Hello,
Currently it is not available but as Giscard mentioned it is in our Feature request back logs(SOAP-651). Let me know if you have further questions.
Regards,
Temil - Is there any way around it?
- Hi,
You can try the following as a workaround,
You can download the Jar and add it to the SoapUI Pro Installation\bin\ext folder,
http://www.ueber.net/who/mjl/projects/bomstrip/
and refer it in the event handler,
http://www.soapui.org/Scripting-Propert ... -validated
Custom event handler,
http://www.soapui.org/Scripting-Propert ... dlers.html
Also there is a Java example which you can refer,
http://www.javapractices.com/topic/Topi ... .do?Id=257
Thanks,
Jeshtha - I attempted to perform the work-around as suggested.
I must be doing something wrong.- Unzipped the tgz file into bin/ext (it created /bombstrip-9 directory)
- Created/Modified RequestFilter.afterRequest event
- added the following code to that envent
log.info "Enter RequestFilter.afterRequest Event"
// get response content
def content = context.httpResponse.responseContent
// manipulate content
log.info "Message before replace series"
// account for poorly defined symbols
content = content.replaceAll( "<", "<" )
content = content.replaceAll( ">", ">" )
content = content.BomStrip(content)
//content = content.BomStrip()
//content = content.BomStrip()
// write it back
context.httpResponse.responseContent = content
log.info "Message after replace series"
log.info( content )
log.info "Exit RequestFilter.afterRequest Event"
I'm receiving groovy.lang.MissingMethodException (s)
Please advise.
Thanks in Advance,
Rich - Hi,
We do not support custom coding.
You will need to place the jar files from the in the <SoapUI Pro install>\bin\ext directory and restart SoapUI Pro. Please use the link that Jestha had referenced on how to use the library.
Regards,
Marcus
SmartBear Support - I finally returned to this issue.
The articles referenced lack detail. They are not usable. The initial referenced article/site lacks the .JAR file you reference. Since I'm not a JAVA programmer you'll have to excuse my inability to read between the lines. I can certainly follow what that code is doing but porting it into SOAPUI is taking a ridiculous amount of time - given the haphazard documentation and class restrictions of the event handler.
My company is thinking about purchasing more licenses. Given the hassle, I've told my purchase manager to hold that order indefinitely as I investigate/write/construct other ways that better integrate with our testing strategy.
One would think - given the proliferate nature of the BOM that a built in solution would already exist. My mistake. - 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.htmlHi 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
