[spring-social-foursquare]Error when search Tip's "Could not read JSON:Invalid UTF-8"

[luisfmp]

Hello there.

I think I'm having an strange behavior with the spring-social-foursquare, when I do this search (with Linux, linux, LINUX, linuX is the same):

List tips = foursquare.tipOperations().search( 19.25, -99.7, "Linux", 0, false );

I get the following message:

org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotR eadableException: Could not read JSON: Invalid UTF-8 start byte 0x91
at [Source: java.io.ByteArrayInputStream@945e31; line: 1, column: 5129]; nested exception is org.codehaus.jackson.JsonParseException: Invalid UTF-8 start byte 0x91
at [Source: java.io.ByteArrayInputStream@945e31; line: 1, column: 5129]
...


But if I do

List tips = foursquare.tipOperations().search( 19.25, -99.7, "Yahoo!", 0, false );

or

List tips = foursquare.tipOperations().search( 19.25, -99.7, "Starbucks", 0, false );

It works ok.

Any ideas about why am i getting this response?

thanks in advance

[habuma]

Without looking into the details for it, I'm guessing that there is some character among the returned data that is not UTF-8 and is tripping up the JSON parsing which is assuming UTF-8. I'm not sure, but *maybe* the Foursquare API isn't expected to return UTF-8 and thus the API binding should not expect it either. Again, just guesses without looking into the details further.

Spring Social Foursquare is a community extension and not one of the modules that I directly support. But I'll ping the author and see if he has any ideas. If I get a free moment or two, I might dig into it a bit more, too. I advise that if you've not done so already, you should write up a bug issue at the project's GitHub page (https://github.com/mattupstate/sprin...rsquare/issues).