[jdev] SASL debugging

[Norman Rasmussen]

Trying to get an object serialized into a utf-8 xml string _without_
the 0xfeff header.

public static string GetStringFromObject(object Object, Type Type) {
    MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
    StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(ms, Encoding.UTF8);
    XmlTextWriter xw = new XmlTextWriter(sw);
    xw.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;

    XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(Type);
    serializer.Serialize(xw, Object);

    return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray()).TrimStart('\xfeff');
}

if I tried it any other way, then either the xml would be labeled as
utf-16 (when it was actually utf-8/ascii - who knows because it all
happened to be 7-bit clean) and the web service would bitch, or it
would be utf-16 and the web service would bitch, or I managed to get
utf-8 encoding (and the xml header said it was utf-8), but the web
service I was sending the string to would choke on the utf-8 leader.

On 12/10/05, David Waite <dwaite at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As you found, sometimes the .net framework actually does a utf-16
> > encoding when you ask it for utf-8.  This has nailed me recently when
> > trying to use webservices.  I ended up having to add and remove the
> > 'marker' bytes (0xff, 0xfe) at the front of the byte array to get it
> > to work properly.
>
> Are you encoding using the io framework rather than the text encoding framework?
>
> -David Waite
>


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