Type Conversion Troubleshooting

As explained previously, the default encoding and translation works for many situations. There are cases, however (for example, binary data such as a .zip file), when the encoding could cause errors in the translation. Depending on the data character set and JVM default encoding, you should choose the appropriate encoding. In most cases, using the encoding string “ISO-8859-1” is the best choice.

To use this encoding, you can modify the code manually by adding the encoding String. Taking the previous examples, the resulting code using “ISO-8859-1” is:

 getoutput().setPayload(STCTypeConverter.toByteArray
    (getinput().getBlob(), "ISO-8859-1"));

or

 getinput().setBlob(STCTypeConverter.toString
    (getoutput().getPayload(), "ISO-8859-1"));

Using this String solves this type conversion problem. For more information, see the appropriate JVM encoding reference manuals.