Issue #362 when passing a string to the body method for a post, route as a string rather than passing to the object mapper.

Author: ryber

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 3.9.00 (pending)
+* Issue #362 when passing a string to the body method for a post, route as a string rather than passing to the object mapper.
+
+
 ## 3.8.06
 * issue #359 make the default object mapper lazy so gson can be excluded
 

unirest/src/main/java/kong/unirest/HttpRequestBody.java

@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ public RequestBodyEntity body(String body) {
 
 	@Override
 	public RequestBodyEntity body(Object body) {
+		if(body instanceof String){
+			return body((String)body);
+		}
 		return body(getObjectMapper().writeValue(body));
 	}
 

unirest/src/test/java/BehaviorTests/UniBodyPostingTest.java

@@ -176,4 +176,17 @@ void theRequestBodyIsAString() {
         Object value = request.getBody().get().uniPart().getValue();
         assertEquals("{\"body\": \"sample\"}", value);
     }
+
+    @Test
+    void stringPassedToObjectGetsPassedToString() {
+        Object body = "{\"body\": \"sample\"}";
+        RequestBodyEntity request = Unirest.post(MockServer.POST)
+                .basicAuth("foo", "bar")
+                .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
+                .queryString("foo", "bar")
+                .body(body);
+
+        Object value = request.getBody().get().uniPart().getValue();
+        assertEquals("{\"body\": \"sample\"}", value);
+    }
 }