Reparse the request body when setting body

Whenever the body property is set the parsed_body should be attempted to
be recalculated.

I'm not convinced this is the best way to solve this problem, though it
would appear that anything else would require more extensive
refactoring.

Issue: #172

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/httpretty/core.py b/httpretty/core.py
index 5e7e96b..e683a76 100644
--- a/httpretty/core.py
+++ b/httpretty/core.py
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ class HTTPrettyRequest(BaseHTTPRequestHandler, BaseClass):
         # unicode strings, it must be converted into a utf-8 encoded
         # byte string
         self.raw_headers = utf8(headers.strip())
-        self.body = utf8(body)
+        self._body = utf8(body)
 
         # Now let's concatenate the headers with the body, and create
         # `rfile` based on it
@@ -177,7 +177,19 @@ class HTTPrettyRequest(BaseHTTPRequestHandler, BaseClass):
 
         # And the body will be attempted to be parsed as
         # `application/json` or `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`
-        self.parsed_body = self.parse_request_body(self.body)
+        self.parsed_body = self.parse_request_body(self._body)
+
+    @property
+    def body(self):
+        return self._body
+
+    @body.setter
+    def body(self, value):
+        self._body = utf8(value)
+
+        # And the body will be attempted to be parsed as
+        # `application/json` or `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`
+        self.parsed_body = self.parse_request_body(self._body)
 
     def __str__(self):
         return '<HTTPrettyRequest("{0}", total_headers={1}, body_length={2})>'.format(