From 1c4298727cfa3f6e7c64001cbdfb20e4d326556c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JasminMistry <4480577+jasmin-mistry@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:18:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: removed the utf-8 encoding from the PostAsync fucntion

---
 src/GraphQL.Client/GraphQLClient.cs           | 10 +++++++---
 src/GraphQL.Client/GraphQLClientOptions.cs    |  2 +-
 .../GraphQLClientPostTests.cs                 | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/GraphQL.Client/GraphQLClient.cs b/src/GraphQL.Client/GraphQLClient.cs
index 543da712..1985dc6e 100644
--- a/src/GraphQL.Client/GraphQLClient.cs
+++ b/src/GraphQL.Client/GraphQLClient.cs
@@ -177,9 +177,13 @@ public async Task<GraphQLResponse> PostAsync(GraphQLRequest request, Cancellatio
 			if (request.Query == null) { throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(request.Query)); }
 
 			var graphQLString = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(request, this.Options.JsonSerializerSettings);
-			using (var httpContent = new StringContent(graphQLString, Encoding.UTF8, this.Options.MediaType.MediaType))
-			using (var httpResponseMessage = await this.httpClient.PostAsync(this.EndPoint, httpContent, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false)) {
-				return await this.ReadHttpResponseMessageAsync(httpResponseMessage).ConfigureAwait(false);
+			using (var httpContent = new StringContent(graphQLString))
+			{
+				httpContent.Headers.ContentType = this.Options.MediaType;
+				using (var httpResponseMessage = await this.httpClient.PostAsync(this.EndPoint, httpContent, cancellationToken).ConfigureAwait(false))
+				{
+					return await this.ReadHttpResponseMessageAsync(httpResponseMessage).ConfigureAwait(false);
+				} 
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/src/GraphQL.Client/GraphQLClientOptions.cs b/src/GraphQL.Client/GraphQLClientOptions.cs
index ce2e4c4d..ab7fd8d7 100644
--- a/src/GraphQL.Client/GraphQLClientOptions.cs
+++ b/src/GraphQL.Client/GraphQLClientOptions.cs
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ public class GraphQLClientOptions {
 		/// <summary>
 		/// The <see cref="MediaTypeHeaderValue"/> that will be send on POST
 		/// </summary>
-		public MediaTypeHeaderValue MediaType { get; set; } = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json"); // This should be "application/graphql" also "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" is Accepted
+		public MediaTypeHeaderValue MediaType { get; set; } = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse("application/json; charset=utf-8"); // This should be "application/graphql" also "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" is Accepted
 
 	}
 
diff --git a/tests/GraphQL.Client.Tests/GraphQLClientPostTests.cs b/tests/GraphQL.Client.Tests/GraphQLClientPostTests.cs
index 5898d40d..ba56c9a1 100644
--- a/tests/GraphQL.Client.Tests/GraphQLClientPostTests.cs
+++ b/tests/GraphQL.Client.Tests/GraphQLClientPostTests.cs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+using System.Net.Http.Headers;
 using GraphQL.Common.Request;
 using GraphQL.Common.Tests.Model;
 using Xunit;
@@ -22,6 +23,25 @@ public async void QueryPostAsyncFact() {
 			Assert.Equal("Luke Skywalker", response.GetDataFieldAs<Person>("person").Name);
 		}
 
+		[Fact]
+		public async void QueryPostAsyncWithoutUtf8EncodingFact()
+		{
+			var graphQLRequest = new GraphQLRequest
+			{
+				Query = @"
+				{
+					person(personID: ""1"") {
+						name
+					}
+				}"
+			};
+			this.GraphQLClient.Options.MediaType = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse("application/json");
+			var response = await this.GraphQLClient.PostAsync(graphQLRequest).ConfigureAwait(false);
+
+			Assert.Equal("Luke Skywalker", response.Data.person.name.Value);
+			Assert.Equal("Luke Skywalker", response.GetDataFieldAs<Person>("person").Name);
+		}
+
 		[Fact]
 		public async void OperationNamePostAsyncFact() {
 			var graphQLRequest = new GraphQLRequest {