UTF8EncodingValve.java

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package eu.scape_project.planning.jboss.util;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;

import org.apache.catalina.connector.Request;
import org.apache.catalina.connector.Response;
import org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase;

/**
 * Sets the request encoding to UTF-8 if it is null.
 */
public class UTF8EncodingValve extends ValveBase {

    @Override
    public void invoke(Request request, Response response) throws IOException, ServletException {
        if (request.getCharacterEncoding() == null) {
            request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
        }
        getNext().invoke(request, response);
    }

}