seam 1.2.1 -> 1.3 (CVS.20070531) causes wrong content encodi

[zdaler]

Since the port to 4.2 and seam 1.3 (CVS.20070531), I've a problem serving my UTF-8 encoded static js files that were ok with 4.0.5 and seams 1.2.1. The problem is also not there if I use a simple war file serving those static files in jboss 4.2. That's why I think the problem might come from seam.

A simple UTF-8 javascript file with BOM at the beginning of the file is served with the machine's encoding (iso-8859-1 in my case).

To reproduce the problem (inside the booking example) :
1. get the file from http://www.relationblog.com/ecrire/tools/fckeditor/editor/lang/en.js
and put it in seam.home/examples/booking/view/js

2. deploy

3. go to http://localhost:8080/seam-booking/js/en.js : the file encoding is wrong and you can see the 3 BOM characters at the beginning of the file that should not be displayed

[zdaler]

any suggestion on this one ?

[tazman]

I had the same problem and could solve the issue by replacing the following filter mapping in web.xml

<filter-mapping>
 <filter-name>Seam Filter</filter-name>
 <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

with this one

<filter-mapping>
 <filter-name>Seam Filter</filter-name>
 <url-pattern>*.seam</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

tazman

[zdaler]

Thanks of lot for the tip.

It seems to work ; I say "seems" because I still have to test my application to make sure it has not broken anything somewhere else.

Still, this use to work (serving UTF-8 encoded js static file trough Seam Filter) in seam 1.2.1 ... it might a bug that it does not work anymore (?) in 1.3.