@hiredman dude I figured it out! 😄 it took a while but I finally found an invocation of jsonista in the metosin coercion_test

if the encoding for the messages is json , the body requires (slurp) (j/ ... (j/object-mapper....))) something like that

i'm a little fuzzy on the details but that's the general idea, it was encoded as a ByteArrayInputStream and it needs to be decoded, I just had no idea how. Or where it was even happening. Now I have it figured out and I am able to test my ring app

with test files 😎