Fix Charset encoding on Outbound

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ and minimize the interactions with the ConnId framework and have much of that
 taken care of by a common API.
 
 # Change Log
++ **4.1.8** - Fix Charset on outbound to specify UTF-8 charset
 + **4.1.7** - FIN-11103 - Support multiple PEM content types (11/06/2023)
 + **4.1.6** - FIN-11103 - Private Key and PEM changed to guarded string (11/02/2023)
 + **4.1.5** - FIN-11103 - Private Key and PEM support for ADP (11/01/2023)

gradle.properties

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-software_version=4.1.7
+software_version=4.1.8
 test_connector_version=3.0.1
 

src/main/java/com/exclamationlabs/connid/base/connector/driver/rest/BaseRestDriver.java

@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@
 import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
 import com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
 import java.net.URI;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Map;
 import org.apache.commons.codec.Charsets;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@
 import org.apache.http.config.RegistryBuilder;
 import org.apache.http.conn.socket.ConnectionSocketFactory;
 import org.apache.http.conn.socket.PlainConnectionSocketFactory;
+import org.apache.http.entity.ByteArrayEntity;
 import org.apache.http.entity.ContentType;
-import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicCredentialsProvider;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
@@ -636,8 +636,8 @@ protected void setupJsonRequestBody(
       }
 
       try {
-        request.setEntity(new StringEntity(bodyData));
-      } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+        request.setEntity(new ByteArrayEntity(bodyData.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
+      } catch (Exception e) {
         throw new ConnectorException("Request body encoding failed for data: " + bodyData, e);
       }
     }