Is it possible to skip/disable normalization of a request body?

[vetlevo]

What would you like to discuss?

I have a use case where I need to send a request to an API that expects a POST request with:
'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

and form data that looks like URLSearchParams...:
attr1=abcdef&date=ge2021-01-02T07:51:01Z&date=le2021-01-04T08:00:00Z

Got performs a normalization step on the body and correctly transforms it to:

{
    "attr1": "abcdef",
    "date": [
        "ge2023-12-31T23:00:00.000Z",
        "le2024-01-07T23:00:00.000Z"
    ]
}

Of course I would like to have the maintainers of the API make it compliant with the format that is most commonly used, but it is unlikely to happen any time soon.

Hence, I was hoping to use the 'beforeRequest' hook to pass the body on the format they expect, but it seems the 'normalization' happens after.

I would like to keep using got for this, and not have to use another request library for this particular use case. Is this possible with got?

Checklist

• I have read the documentation.

[vetlevo]

It seems to even be the default behvaiour of fetch as well, so I guess not... I will probably have to do it with something a bit lower level, like node:http sadly ... That's what happens when you have to use APIs that are not following the most widely accepted use of standards ...