@JvmField
    val EMPTY: RequestBody = ByteString.EMPTY.toRequestBody()

    /**
     * Returns a new request body that transmits this string. If [contentType] is non-null and lacks
     * a charset, this will use UTF-8.
     */
    @JvmStatic
    @JvmName("create")
    fun String.toRequestBody(contentType: MediaType? = null): RequestBody {

    assertOnFileDescriptor { fd ->
      val requestBody = fd.toRequestBody()

      assertThat(requestBody.contentLength()).isEqualTo(-1L)
      assertThat(requestBody.isOneShot()).isEqualTo(true)
    }
  }

  @Test
  fun testFileDescriptorRead() {
    assertOnFileDescriptor(content = "Hello") { fd ->
      val requestBody = fd.toRequestBody()

      val buffer = Buffer()
      requestBody.writeTo(buffer)

  public void run() throws Exception {
    Map<String, String> requestBody = new LinkedHashMap<>();
    requestBody.put("longUrl", "https://publicobject.com/2014/12/04/html-formatting-javadocs/");
    RequestBody jsonRequestBody = RequestBody.create(
        mapJsonAdapter.toJson(requestBody), MEDIA_TYPE_JSON);
    Request request = new Request.Builder()

Einige Anwendungsfälle sind:

* Konvertieren von Nicht-JSON-Requestbodys nach JSON (z. B. <a href="https://msgpack.org/index.html" class="external-link" target="_blank">`msgpack`</a>).
* Dekomprimierung gzip-komprimierter Requestbodys.
* Automatisches Loggen aller Requestbodys.

## Handhaben von benutzerdefinierten Requestbody-Kodierungen { #handling-custom-request-body-encodings }

    // Use the imgur image upload API as documented at https://api.imgur.com/endpoints/image
    RequestBody requestBody = new MultipartBody.Builder()
        .setType(MultipartBody.FORM)
        .addFormDataPart("title", "Square Logo")
        .addFormDataPart("image", "logo-square.png",
            RequestBody.create(
                new File("docs/images/logo-square.png"),
                MEDIA_TYPE_PNG))
        .build();

import okhttp3.MediaType.Companion.toMediaType
import okhttp3.OkHttpClient
import okhttp3.Request
import okhttp3.RequestBody
import okio.BufferedSink

class PostStreaming {
  private val client = OkHttpClient()

  fun run() {
    val requestBody =
      object : RequestBody() {
        override fun contentType() = MEDIA_TYPE_MARKDOWN

        override fun writeTo(sink: BufferedSink) {

import okhttp3.Request;
import okhttp3.RequestBody;
import okhttp3.Response;
import okio.BufferedSink;

public final class PostStreaming {
  public static final MediaType MEDIA_TYPE_MARKDOWN
      = MediaType.get("text/x-markdown; charset=utf-8");

  private final OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

  public void run() throws Exception {
    RequestBody requestBody = new RequestBody() {

 * limitations under the License.
 */
package okhttp3

import java.io.IOException
import okio.BufferedSink

open class ForwardingRequestBody(
  delegate: RequestBody?,
) : RequestBody() {
  private val delegate: RequestBody

  fun delegate(): RequestBody = delegate

  override fun contentType(): MediaType? = delegate.contentType()

  @Throws(IOException::class)

        }
      }

    val file = File("docs/images/logo-square.png")
    val requestBody: RequestBody = file.asRequestBody(MEDIA_TYPE_PNG)

    val request =
      Request
        .Builder()
        .header("Authorization", "Client-ID $IMGUR_CLIENT_ID")
        .url("https://api.imgur.com/3/image")
        .post(ProgressRequestBody(requestBody, progressListener))
        .build()

import okhttp3.OkHttpClient;
import okhttp3.Request;
import okhttp3.RequestBody;
import okhttp3.Response;

public class PostExample {
  public static final MediaType JSON = MediaType.get("application/json; charset=utf-8");

  final OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

  String post(String url, String json) throws IOException {
    RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(json, JSON);
    Request request = new Request.Builder()