Not able to ingest non english utf-8 chars such as Japanese etc

[fr-judson]

Describe the bug
Could not able to ingest data contains non english utf-8 chars such as Japanese ( for example "Sample Data - 商品ブランドコード") to dataset entity on their aspects such as datasetProperties, dataset schemaMetadata ( on column description part).

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Ingest data which contains non english utf-8 chars such as Japanese to Dataset entity on the following aspects datasetProperties , datasetSchemametadata

Expected behavior
Metadata should be ingested to datahub.

Observed behavior
Metadata not able to ingest to datahub.

Additional context

• Used Datahub Java emitter.
• Data encoding utf-8
• Refer slack conversation: https://datahubspace.slack.com/archives/CUMUWQU66/p1657100203454079

Person to contact: Chris Margach (in datahub slack)

[github-actions]

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[hsheth2]

Additional context here: non utf-8 characters seems to work on the python side + on the frontend. I only tested the description field though, so @fr-judson let me know if there's other fields that were causing problems for you?

As such, it looks like this error is specific to the java emitter

[humpfhumpf]

Fix suggestion:

in RestEmitter.java, StringEntity uses iso-8859-1 by default, but JSON is always UTF-8.

httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity(payloadJson));

must be rewriten into:

httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity(payloadJson, org.apache.http.entity.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON));

and

httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(payload)));

must be rewriten into:

httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(payload), org.apache.http.entity.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON));

[fr-chrismargach]

@hsheth2
Unfortunately, @fr-judson has left the organization. As far as I can see from our chat logs, we only tried "descriptions for both datasetproperties and dataset column descriptions"

@humpfhumpf
Thank you very much for the suggestion! We'll try it out.