I need to send SMS using Sinch API with Arabic text. My SMS message contains- English, Arabic and Numerical number.
What I tried
Below is the code that I have tried
String arabicFormattedMessage = "Some English Text \n\n"+"رجى الاتصال بالامتثال التجاري وحماية المستهلك (ككب) من دائرة التنمية الاقتصادية في 12345678 لمزيد من التفاصيل، إذا لم يتم الاتصال في غضون 5 أيام عمل.";
jsonObject.put("message", arabicFormattedMessage );
String messageBody = new String(jsonObject.toString().getBytes(),"UTF-16BE");
String contentTypeHeader = "application/json; charset=UTF-16BE";
headers.put("authorization", base64AuthHeader);
headers.put("content-type", contentTypeHeader);
headers.put("x-timestamp", timeStampHeader);
//headers.put("encoding", "UTF-16BE"); Tried with and without this, but still not working.
Response I have recd
Sinch responseCode: 400
Sinch Response: message object is invalid. toNumber object is invalid.
As Requested in comments, Below is the working example with English Only:
JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject();
String formattedMessage = "some english message";
jsonObject.put("message", formattedMessage );
final String messageBody = jsonObject.toString();
final String base64AuthHeader = "basic" + " " + base64AppDetails;
String contentTypeHeader = "application/json; charset=UTF-8";
final String timeStampHeader = DateUtil.getFormattedTimeString(new Date());
headers.put("authorization", base64AuthHeader);
headers.put("content-type", contentTypeHeader);
headers.put("x-timestamp", timeStampHeader);
HTTP POST Request
HttpClient.sendHttpPostRequest(url, messageBody, headers);
After successful call, I get message id in response from Sinch
The problem is that whatever your string's internal encoding is (which in Java is always UTF-16), HttpClient.sendHttpPostRequest is probably sending it as UTF-8.
As DefaultHttpClient is Deprecated, we will do it the correct way using HttpURLConnection. You may want to see the HttpURLConnection Documentation on how it should be used regarding Authentication.
String arabicFormattedMessage = "Some English Text \n\n"+"رجى الاتصال بالامتثال التجاري وحماية المستهلك (ككب) من دائرة التنمية الاقتصادية في 12345678 لمزيد من التفاصيل، إذا لم يتم الاتصال في غضون 5 أيام عمل.";
jsonObject.put("message", arabicFormattedMessage );
URL url = new URL ("http://...");
HttpURLConnection urlConn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
try {
urlConn.setDoInput (true);
urlConn.setDoOutput (true);
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","application/json; charset=UTF-16");
urlConn.connect();
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(urlConn.getOutputStream ());
out.writeBytes(URLEncoder.encode(jsonObject.toString(),"UTF-16"));
out.flush ();
out.close ();
int responseCode = urlConnection.getResponseCode();
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
readStream(in);
} finally {
urlConnection.disconnect();
}
}
If it doesn't work you should also try UTF-16BE, or UTF-16LE without byte order mark.