fix: preserve original HTTP mock request content

[thomhurst]

Description

Matched HTTP mock requests were replacing their original content with a UTF-8 StringContent before invoking the response factory. This corrupted binary payloads, changed text encodings, and discarded content headers such as multipart boundaries and custom headers.

Keep the original HttpContent. The existing ReadAsStringAsync call already buffers it for body matching, allowing factories to reread it without reconstructing the request.

Add regressions covering binary bytes, UTF-16 text, multipart content and boundaries, custom headers, content identity, and rereading a non-seekable stream.

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)

Checklist

• Read the contributing guidelines.
• Follow the existing code style.
• Add regression tests proving the fix.
• Preserve public APIs and avoid new reflection.
• Remove the extra request-content allocation.

Testing

• Before the fix: all four new regression cases failed on .NET 10.
• dotnet test --project tests/TUnit.Mocks.Http.Tests/TUnit.Mocks.Http.Tests.csproj -c Release — 174 passed across .NET 8, 9, and 10.

Validation ran on Windows. No generator output or public API changes require snapshot updates.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Request content is now preserved when handled by mock HTTP requests, including binary, text, and multipart content.
  • Original content headers, custom headers, bytes, and object identity remain intact.
  • Response factories can reread request bodies, including non-seekable content.

• Tests

  • Added coverage validating request-content preservation and rereading behavior across supported content types.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

MockHttpHandler.SendAsync no longer replaces request content after reading it. New tests verify preservation of bytes, headers, object identity, and rereading of non-seekable content.

Changes

Request content preservation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve request content and validate rereads src/TUnit.Mocks.Http/MockHttpHandler.cs, tests/TUnit.Mocks.Http.Tests/RequestContentPreservationTests.cs	SendAsync keeps the original request content after buffering. Tests cover binary, text, multipart, custom headers, object identity, and non-seekable content rereads.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e9712

HTTP mock request-content preservation is covered for generated execution, but reflection-mode coverage remains unconfirmed, leaving a bounded compatibility risk for consumers using that mode.

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Greptile Summary

This PR preserves the original HTTP request content after body matching instead of replacing it with UTF-8 StringContent.

• Retains the original bytes, encoding, content headers, multipart boundaries, and object identity.
• Adds regression coverage for binary, UTF-16, multipart, custom-header, identity, and non-seekable-stream scenarios.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; the implementation preserves the original content while retaining body matching and factory rereading behavior.

The handler awaits content buffering before matching and factory invocation, and the new tests directly guard every preservation property affected by the removed reconstruction.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
src/TUnit.Mocks.Http/MockHttpHandler.cs	Removes lossy request-content reconstruction and passes the original, buffered content to response factories.
tests/TUnit.Mocks.Http.Tests/RequestContentPreservationTests.cs	Adds focused regressions proving preservation of content bytes, metadata, identity, and non-seekable-stream rereading.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
    A[Original HttpContent] --> B[ReadAsStringAsync buffers content]
    B --> C[Match request body]
    C --> D[Invoke response factory]
    D --> E[Factory receives original buffered HttpContent]

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Code Review

Reviewed the fix for MockHttpHandler.SendAsync corrupting matched request content.

The fix is correct and well-targeted. Removing the StringContent reconstruction and relying on the buffering already performed by ReadAsStringAsync()/LoadIntoBufferAsync() is the right approach:

• It preserves the original HttpContent instance (headers, encoding, multipart boundaries, stream ownership) instead of lossily rebuilding a UTF-8 StringContent from a decoded string.
• The pre-existing ReadAsStringAsync() call (used for body matching in RequestMatcher) already buffers the content internally, so a response factory calling ReadAsByteArrayAsync()/ReadAsStringAsync() again on request.Content gets a fresh read from the buffer — including for non-seekable streams, since LoadIntoBufferAsync copies sequentially rather than seeking.
• Verified no other code path (CapturedRequest, RequestMatcher) depends on request.Content being replaced with a StringContent; both only read headers/body snapshots independently.

Tests (RequestContentPreservationTests) directly cover the regression: binary bytes, UTF-16 text, multipart + boundaries, custom header survival, reference identity, and rereading a non-seekable stream. This is exactly the right test surface for this bug class.

No issues found. Nicely scoped bug fix — no architectural concerns.

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Inline comments:
In `@tests/TUnit.Mocks.Http.Tests/RequestContentPreservationTests.cs`:
- Line 13: Update the HTTP preservation test execution configuration to run both
ResponseFactoryReceivesOriginalContent and
ResponseFactoryCanRereadNonSeekableContent in reflection mode, in addition to
their default source-generated execution. Use the existing targeted
reflection-test mechanism and ensure both tests in TUnit.Mocks.Http.Tests are
included.

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Run the HTTP preservation tests in both TUnit modes.

TUnit.Mocks.Http.Tests uses source-generated execution by default. scripts/run-reflection-tests.ps1 runs only tests/TUnit.TestProject, so these tests are not covered with --reflection. Add a targeted reflection run for both ResponseFactoryReceivesOriginalContent and ResponseFactoryCanRereadNonSeekableContent.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@tests/TUnit.Mocks.Http.Tests/RequestContentPreservationTests.cs` at line 13,
Update the HTTP preservation test execution configuration to run both
ResponseFactoryReceivesOriginalContent and
ResponseFactoryCanRereadNonSeekableContent in reflection mode, in addition to
their default source-generated execution. Use the existing targeted
reflection-test mechanism and ensure both tests in TUnit.Mocks.Http.Tests are
included.

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