[JENKINS-58835] recognize file's encodings

It would be nice if the readFile basic step could recognize the file's encoding.  (Writing a file with writeFile can store a BOM at the beginning to help in recognizing the character set later, but this must be only a non-default option to preserve backward compatibility with earlier groovy code reading the created files.  This agrees with a rule of thumb "accept liberally, produce conservatively").

There is no need to reinvent the wheel.  Using (and white-listing) groovy.util.CharsetToolkit can make this easy.

 

https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/blob/GROOVY_2_4_X/src/main/groovy/util/CharsetToolkit.java#L388

 

http://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/api/groovy/util/CharsetToolkit.html#getReader()

 

https://github.com/jenkinsci/workflow-basic-steps-plugin/blob/workflow-basic-steps-2.18/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/workflow/steps/ReadFileStep.java

 

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Originally reported by ilatypov, imported from: recognize file's encodings

• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): workflow-basic-steps-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 1
  
• imported: 20251215-220547
  

Raw content of original issue

It would be nice if the readFile basic step could recognize the file's encoding.  (Writing a file with writeFile can store a BOM at the beginning to help in recognizing the character set later, but this must be only a non-default option to preserve backward compatibility with earlier groovy code reading the created files.  This agrees with a rule of thumb "accept liberally, produce conservatively").


There is no need to reinvent the wheel.  Using (and white-listing) groovy.util.CharsetToolkit can make this easy.


 


https://github.com/groovy/groovy-core/blob/GROOVY_2_4_X/src/main/groovy/util/CharsetToolkit.java#L388


 


http://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/api/groovy/util/CharsetToolkit.html#getReader()


 


https://github.com/jenkinsci/workflow-basic-steps-plugin/blob/workflow-basic-steps-2.18/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/workflow/steps/ReadFileStep.java