#NEWLINE# def get_data( self , as_text = False ) : #NEWLINE# #INDENT# 'The string representation of the request body.  Whenever you call\n        this property the request iterable is encoded and flattened.  This\n        can lead to unwanted behavior if you stream big data.\n\n        This behavior can be disabled by setting\n        :attr:`implicit_sequence_conversion` to `False`.\n\n        If `as_text` is set to `True` the return value will be a decoded\n        unicode string.\n\n        .. versionadded:: 0.9\n        ' #NEWLINE# self . _ensure_sequence ( ) #NEWLINE# rv = b'' . join ( self . iter_encoded ( ) ) #NEWLINE# if as_text : #NEWLINE# #INDENT# rv = rv . decode ( self . charset ) #NEWLINE# #UNINDENT# return rv