'In the postman I am getting proper json response but when I hit the service through restTemplate I am getting chinese characters

Code:

RestTemplate template=new RestTemplate();  
HttpHeaders headers=new HttpHeaders();                                                                             
headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);                               
HttpEntity<?> httpEntity=new HttpEntity<>(body,headers);     
ResponseEntity<String> postForEntity = template.postForEntity("url", httpEntity, String.class);

Json Response:

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by using this for loop I am able to get the correct json response:

for(int i=0; i< response.length(); i++) {
     encoded += ((char) ((int)response.charAt(i) / 256 ));    
}

Postman headers:

Request Headers: 
Accept:Application/Json
Content-type:Application/Json

Response Headers:
Content-Type →application/json; charset=utf-8
Date →Thu, 04 Jun 2020 15:41:49 GMT
Server →Server Name
Transfer-Encoding →chunked

But I want to get the response without using this for loop.

javaresttemplate


Solution 1:[1]

In your code you are trying to receive the response in String format and here is the issue. First receive the response as Object, Once you receive the response as Object then try to convert it in String.

RestTemplate template=new RestTemplate();  
HttpHeaders headers=new HttpHeaders();                                                                             
headers.setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);                               
HttpEntity<?> httpEntity=new HttpEntity<>(body,headers);     
ResponseEntity<Object> postForEntity = template.postForEntity("url", httpEntity, Object.class);

Solution 2:[2]

Maybe you need to pass "Accept-Language" header. It could be possible that postman sends default header value as "en-US"

Solution 3:[3]

The problem is the encoding. when sending your request make sure that you add the header

Content-type:Application/Json; charset=utf-8

And not just 

Content-type:Application/Json

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Solution Source
Solution 1
Solution 2 Nandlal
Solution 3 Michael Gantman

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