Fix: test for whehter request has a JSON body

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/apifw/bottleapp.py b/apifw/bottleapp.py
index 97987c6..04cf74a 100644
--- a/apifw/bottleapp.py
+++ b/apifw/bottleapp.py
@@ -203,13 +203,16 @@ class BottleApplication:
         return wrapper
 
     def _get_request_body(self):
+        json_type = 'application/json'
         content_type = bottle.request.get_header('Content-Type')
         raw_body = bottle.request.body.read()
-        if raw_body != 'application/json':
+        if content_type != json_type:
             return content_type, raw_body
 
         try:
-            return content_type, json.loads(raw_body)
+            text_body = raw_body.decode('UTF-8')
+            parsed = json.loads(text_body)
+            return content_type, parsed
         except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError as e:
             raise bottle.HTTPError(status=apifw.HTTP_BAD_REQUEST, body=str(e))