bean doesnt do much in this case

Tried https://github.com/clojure/java.data but this gives the same result as bean

That is an inputstream

Reading data from it consumes it

Thanks I can figure out how to render it. Was wondering if Portal had a way of doing it by default or some standard way of overriding some type-specific renderer.

You might be able to move the Portal middleware after the body processing middleware. Usually it will put the parsed body under something like :body-params