engage-api-client and UTF-8 requests

[bdbavis]

It seems that the API fails to handle Cyrillic letters when sending them to Engage.

[smitchelus]

@bdbavis, could you provide more detail? Some examples of the calls you are making?

[bdbavis]

@smitchelus
I'm using AddRecipientCommand() to add new contact to my DB on Silverpop,
One of the columns that i'm sending on my request is the name of the customer.
When the name contain Cyrillic letters like чийнбд it appears on DB as ?????.
I think that the problem is that the client API does not use UTF-8 when sending the request to Engage.

[smitchelus]

@bdbavis, if you need to use an encoding other than your JVM's default encoding then you would need to wrap the API command in an EncodedApiCommand and specify the desired encoding in there.

For example:
ApiCommand command = commandFactory.createSaveMailingCommand(mailing);
EncodedApiCommand encodedCommand = new EncodedApiCommand(command, "UTF-8");

[bdbavis]

@smitchelus
thanks... you helped me a lot :-)