CharsetFilter.java

package org.wikipedia.miner.web.util;

import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.Filter;
import javax.servlet.FilterChain;
import javax.servlet.FilterConfig;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.ServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.ServletResponse;

public class CharsetFilter implements Filter
{
	private String encoding;

	public void init(FilterConfig config) throws ServletException
	{
		encoding = config.getInitParameter("requestEncoding");

		if( encoding==null ) encoding="UTF-8";
	}

	public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain next)
	throws IOException, ServletException
	{
		// Respect the client-specified character encoding
		// (see HTTP specification section 3.4.1)
		if(null == request.getCharacterEncoding())
			request.setCharacterEncoding(encoding);

		/**
		 * Set the default response content type and encoding
		 */
		response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");
		response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");


		next.doFilter(request, response);
	}

	public void destroy(){}
}