The default encoding is not set to UTF-8 for JibxMarshaller [SWS-572]

[gregturn]

Alexandre Arica opened SWS-572 and commented

In the class "org.springframework.oxm.jibx.JibxMarshaller" the default encoding is not set to UTF-8 as specified in the Java-Doc of the method 'setEncoding()'.

Therefore, when we marshal an object with "org.springframework.oxm.jibx.JibxMarshaller", the output XML does not contain the encoding attribute:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

instead of

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

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Affects: 1.5.8

[gregturn]

Arjen Poutsma commented

I am not sure what you mean. The default encoding for XML is UTF-8 (unless otherwise specified with a BOM), so

<?xml version="1.0"?>

is typically identical to

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

[gregturn]

Alexandre Arica commented

Hi Arjen,

Well basically in the code of "JibxMarshaller" the private member "private String encoding;" is not explicitly set to UTF-8.
If I set it specifically to UTF-8 using the setter 'setEncoding()' then the generated XML document contains: encoding="UTF-8" otherwise it does not.
The default behaviour "JibxMarshaller" is therefore not what we expect.

Cheers

[gregturn]

Alexandre Arica commented

For example, in the class "org.springframework.oxm.castor.CastorMarshaller", the default encoding is explicitly set to UTF-8 by default.

[gregturn]

Arjen Poutsma commented

Closing old issues