Moved is_json to utils

src/RequestsLibrary/RequestsKeywords.py

@@ -921,7 +921,6 @@ def request_should_be_successful(self, response):
         """
         self._check_status(None, response, msg=None)
 
-
     def _common_request(
             self,
             method,
@@ -1026,7 +1025,7 @@ def _format_data_according_to_header(self, session, data, headers):
         # Merged headers are already case insensitive
         headers = utils.merge_headers(session, headers)
 
-        if data is not None and headers is not None and 'Content-Type' in headers and not self._is_json(data):
+        if data is not None and headers is not None and 'Content-Type' in headers and not utils.is_json(data):
             if headers['Content-Type'].find("application/json") != -1:
                 if not isinstance(data, types.GeneratorType):
                     if str(data).strip():
@@ -1096,14 +1095,6 @@ def _log_response(method, response):
                      response.text)
 
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def _is_json(data):
-        try:
-            json.loads(data)
-        except (TypeError, ValueError):
-            return False
-        return True
-
     @staticmethod
     def _is_string_type(data):
         if PY3 and isinstance(data, str):

src/RequestsLibrary/utils.py

@@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ def merge_headers(session, headers):
     return merged_headers
 
 
+def is_json(data):
+    try:
+        json.loads(data)
+    except (TypeError, ValueError):
+        return False
+    return True
+
+
 def json_pretty_print(content):
     """
     Pretty print a JSON object