ring: read body of a http request as string

Question

When handling a http request inside a ring server, the body of the request-data is stored in the request-hashmap in the key :body. For instance as followed:

Answer 1

The :body of ring request must be an instance of java.io.InputStream. So you can use reader + slurp to get a string out.

(defn is->str [is]
  (let [rdr (clojure.java.io/reader is)]
    (slurp rdr)))

Usage: (is->str (:body request))