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# File action_controller/request.rb, line 364
def parse_formatted_request_parameters
  return {} if content_length.zero?

  content_type, boundary = self.class.extract_multipart_boundary(content_type_with_parameters)

  # Don't parse params for unknown requests.
  return {} if content_type.blank?

  mime_type = Mime::Type.lookup(content_type)
  strategy = ActionController::Base.param_parsers[mime_type]

  # Only multipart form parsing expects a stream.
  body = (strategy && strategy != :multipart_form) ? raw_post : self.body

  case strategy
    when Proc
      strategy.call(body)
    when :url_encoded_form
      self.class.clean_up_ajax_request_body! body
      self.class.parse_query_parameters(body)
    when :multipart_form
      self.class.parse_multipart_form_parameters(body, boundary, content_length, env)
    when :xml_simple, :xml_node
      body.blank? ? {} : Hash.from_xml(body).with_indifferent_access
    when :yaml
      YAML.load(body)
    else
      {}
  end
rescue Exception => e # YAML, XML or Ruby code block errors
  raise
  { "body" => body,
    "content_type" => content_type_with_parameters,
    "content_length" => content_length,
    "exception" => "#{e.message} (#{e.class})",
    "backtrace" => e.backtrace }
end