little changes to requests and integration testing JSON POST requests

flight/net/Request.php

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ class Request
             $config = [
                 'url'        => str_replace('@', '%40', self::getVar('REQUEST_URI', '/')),
                 'base'       => str_replace(['\\', ' '], ['/', '%20'], \dirname(self::getVar('SCRIPT_NAME'))),
-                'method' => self::getMethod(),
+                'method'     => ($config['method'] ?? self::getMethod()),
                 'referrer'   => self::getVar('HTTP_REFERER'),
                 'ip'         => self::getVar('REMOTE_ADDR'),
                 'ajax'       => 'XMLHttpRequest' === self::getVar('HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH'),
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ class Request
     {
         // Set all the defined properties
         foreach ($properties as $name => $value) {
-            $this->$name = $value;
+            $this->{$name} = $value;
         }
 
         // Get the requested URL without the base directory
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ class Request
             return $body;
         }
 
-        $method = self::getMethod();
+        $method = $this->method ?? self::getMethod();
 
         if ('POST' === $method || 'PUT' === $method || 'DELETE' === $method || 'PATCH' === $method) {
             $body = file_get_contents($this->stream_path);

tests/EngineTest.php

@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ namespace tests;
 use Exception;
 use Flight;
 use flight\Engine;
+use flight\net\Request;
 use flight\net\Response;
+use flight\util\Collection;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
 
 // phpcs:ignoreFile PSR2.Methods.MethodDeclaration.Underscore
@@ -304,6 +306,33 @@ class EngineTest extends TestCase
         $this->assertEquals(301, $engine->response()->status());
     }
 
+    public function testJsonRequestBody()
+    {
+        $engine = new Engine();
+        $tmpfile = tmpfile();
+        $stream_path = stream_get_meta_data($tmpfile)['uri'];
+        file_put_contents($stream_path, '{"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"}');
+
+        $engine->register('request', Request::class, [
+            [
+                'method' => 'POST',
+                'url' => '/something/fancy',
+                'base' => '/vagrant/public',
+                'type' => 'application/json',
+                'length' => 13,
+                'data' => new Collection(),
+                'query' => new Collection(),
+                'stream_path' => $stream_path
+            ]
+        ]);
+        $engine->post('/something/fancy', function () use ($engine) {
+            echo $engine->request()->data->key1;
+            echo $engine->request()->data->key2;
+        });
+        $engine->start();
+        $this->expectOutputString('value1value2');
+    }
+
     public function testJson()
     {
         $engine = new Engine();