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+module ActionController
+  class AbstractRequest
+    # Determine whether the body of a HTTP call is URL-encoded (default)
+    # or matches one of the registered param_parsers. 
+    #
+    # For backward compatibility, the post format is extracted from the
+    # X-Post-Data-Format HTTP header if present.
+    def post_format
+      case content_type
+      when 'application/xml'
+        :xml
+      when 'application/x-yaml'
+        :yaml
+      else
+        :url_encoded
+      end
+    end
+
+    # Is this a POST request formatted as XML or YAML?
+    def formatted_post?
+      post? && (post_format == :yaml || post_format == :xml)
+    end
+
+    # Is this a POST request formatted as XML?
+    def xml_post?
+      post? && post_format == :xml
+    end
+
+    # Is this a POST request formatted as YAML?
+    def yaml_post?
+      post? && post_format == :yaml
+    end
+  end
+end