How to make SoapUI json request work with german u

Question

We use SoapUI for many interfaces in our team project. We came across a problem with german special signs, called umlauts. When sending a POST request with Json body and a german umlaut, the we get com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException. It cannot be parsed with com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.

But when sending the same request using POSTMAN, then it works like a charm.

We use @Consumes({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON + "; charset=utf-8"}) annotations and Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 header. But still no effect. Has anyone ever came across such a problem or know how to solve it? We cannot change the testing tool.

Answer 1

In SoapUI there is an additional property for setting the encoding of your request.

It is available under the tab Request Properties. Property: Encoding, Value: UTF-8.

Setting it as above solved our problem.