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Handling special characters

Due to lack of support for certain special characters in XML, TrueSight Network Automation encodes them before passing the strings to the webservice client. Encoding replaces a special character with an escaped hexadecimal string (for example, \x00). This encoding is done by using the StringUtils.translateUnprintables() method.

When the client receives the data, a call must be made to SharedStringUtils.convertToCharacter() to translate the encoded strings back to their original characters.

When the client sends data containing special characters to the server, a call must be made to the StringUtils.translateUnprintables() method to encode the special characters before a call is made to the web service API.

Note

While parsing the web services response, use wildcards in the script because namespaces might change from release-to-release.

 

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