UTF-8 characters are unescaped even if they were escaped in response

[Katzen-Gott]

I have a service that returns an xml containing, among others, value CALLE MARÍA LOZANA, but in prettyPrint() I see CALLE MARÍA LOZANA. And object I get from response via JAXB also has CALLE MARÍA LOZANA for this field. But every other http client (postman, soapUI, curl) show escaped symbol (Í, not Í). So, what restassured shows happens to be different from what there really is. The my service's behaviour is definitely a bug, so I need to see such things and to be able to check for them, and that is impossible with restassured unescaping things that are escaped.

For those who might think that problem is in other clients: there is another service that returns values with diacritic signs, and for that service all http clients (postman, soapUI, curl) show that symbols are not escaped.

[johanhaleby]

What version of rest assured are you using?

[Katzen-Gott]

3.0.0
Sorry, i didn't notice github changed characters, I made changes to issue formatting.

[johanhaleby]

Hmm... It's strange that you also get the same problems if you use Jersey. Could it be a JVM setting? I always start my JVM with java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 .... Could this be the issue?

[Katzen-Gott]

I usually run my tests from IDEA, and I don't know what settings it uses, but I specified that option in run properties, and I got the same as previously.
Just to be sure that we understand each other correctly: restassured is giving me nice human-readable symbols (including symbols with diacritics). The problem is that service I call via restassured actually responds with escaped symbols (like Í). And I need to know that it returned these ugly things, but restassured hides this, it only shows Í no matter what was in service response, Í or Í

[johanhaleby]

Ah ok then I misunderstood you. Isn't the server also returning a charset? What does wireshark show you?

[Katzen-Gott]

Just checked: server is returning charset UTF-8

[johanhaleby]

Hmm ok, I'm not sure what to make of this. Maybe it's the JVM that does this automatically?!

[Katzen-Gott]

Then it's strange that SoapUI shows it differently, as it is a Java application. Do you know how to check if it's JVMs fault?

[johanhaleby]

Ah OK, I confused SoapUI with Postman. Then I'm not sure what could be the cause of this. Something with Apache HTTP Client perhaps?

[Katzen-Gott]

Is there a way to check? I would post them a bug if it's their issue.

[johanhaleby]

The only way I can think of to check this would be to try to make the same request using vanilla Apache Http Client.