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rajareddych
Level 2
February 1, 2019

Splecial characters in RTE are displayed differently after conversion to JSON view

  • February 1, 2019
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1. Created a custom component dialog, which has field='Answer Text' with richtext field

2. Gave Special characters as input

3. Create Sling Model Exporter for JSON output

@PostConstruct

public void invokepost() {

if (answerText != null && !answerText.isEmpty()) {

answerText = formatAnswerRTEText(answerText);

}

}

// In this method, rteText is passed as a parameter which needs to be trimmed and covered with double quotes and remove all the new lines in the text

private String formatAnswerRTEText(String rteText) {

String modifiedRteText = null;

modifiedRteText = "\"" + rteText.trim() + "\"";

modifiedRteText = modifiedRteText .replaceAll("\\r|\\n", "");

return modifiedRteText ;

}

4. JSON output is not displaying special characters

Please guide me in resolving this issue. (Special characters should be displayed as it is in JSON output)

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4 replies

Gaurav-Behl
Gaurav-Behl
Level 10
February 1, 2019

Make sure to export the content as "UTF-8", check the sling exporter version per below link-

[SLING-7344] Jackson Sling Model Exporter needs correct character encoding - ASF JIRA

test with latest version and revert

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rajareddychAuthor
Level 2
February 4, 2019

I have followed to crate similar servlet, I am getting error at json = object.writeValueAsString(answerModel); for writeValueAsString

@SlingServlet(

resourceTypes = {AHMJsonServiceConstants.ANSWER_RT},

selectors = "servlet",

extensions = "json",

methods = "GET"

)

public class ContentServlet extends SlingSafeMethodsServlet {

private static final long serialVersionUID = -1765279544984834180L;

private static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AnswerModel.class);

@Override

    protected void doGet(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

        Resource answerResource = request.getResource();

        AnswerModel answerModel = answerResource.adaptTo(AnswerModel.class);

       

        Object object = new Object();

        String json = "{}";

        try {

            json = object.writeValueAsString(answerModel);

        } catch (RepositoryException e) {

        LOG.error(AHMJsonServiceConstants.MSG_PROCESSING_ERROR + e.getMessage());

            // Silently die as this is a POC

        }

        // The magic to make localized content work.

            // BOTH ContentType and CharacterEncoding must be set.

            response.setContentType("application/json");

            response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

            response.getWriter().write(json);

Gaurav-Behl
Gaurav-Behl
Level 10
February 4, 2019

could you share the error trace?

this is incomplete code as I can't interpret a lot of lines-

-resourceTypes = {AHMJsonServiceConstants.ANSWER_RT},

AnswerModel answerModel = answerResource.adaptTo(AnswerModel.class);

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rajareddychAuthor
Level 2
February 4, 2019

Answer Model is a JSON sling model exporter with 3 fields, 2 are RTE fields.

smacdonald2008
smacdonald2008
Level 10
February 4, 2019

I am checking with the team - I have never seen this use case of wanting to export spec chars in JSON before.

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rajareddychAuthor
Level 2
February 6, 2019

Thank you guys, I have used replace keyword instead of decoding, and is working as expected.

smacdonald2008
smacdonald2008
Level 10
February 6, 2019

I am happy to hear its working.

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