You can just have `Request` as a parameter and do those edge cases yourself. Or write your own Extractor which would handle that pretty easily. I'm not sure of

You can just have `Request` as a parameter and do those edge cases yourself. Or write your own Extractor which would handle that pretty easily. I'm not sure of your use case where clients can send any format they want and the HTTP server is supposed to know and handle any format automatically (form, json, querystring, etc), but seems more like a legacy edge case than something you would do building a server from scratch. Something like this (completely untested) but pretty straight forward to handle your usecase. #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default)] #[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "json")))] pub struct FormOrJson<T>(pub T); #[async_trait] impl<T, S, B> FromRequest<S, B> for FormOrJson<T> where T: DeserializeOwned, B: HttpBody + Send + 'static, B::Data: Send, B::Error: Into<BoxError>, S: Send + Sync, { type Rejection = InvalidFormOrJson; async fn from_request(req: Request<B>, state: &S) -> Result<Self, Self::Rejection> { if json_content_type(req.headers()) { let bytes = Bytes::from_request(req, state).await?; let deserializer = &mut serde_json::Deserializer::from_slice(&bytes); let value = match serde_path_to_error::deserialize(deserializer) { Ok(value) => value, Err(err) => { let rejection = match err.inner().classify() { serde_json::error::Category::Data => JsonDataError::from_err(err).into(), serde_json::error::Category::Syntax | serde_json::error::Category::Eof => { JsonSyntaxError::from_err(err).into() } serde_json::error::Category::Io => { if cfg!(debug_assertions) { // we don't use `serde_json::from_reader` and instead always buffer // bodies first, so we shouldn't encounter any IO errors unreachable!() } else { JsonSyntaxError::from_err(err).into() } } }; return Err(rejection); } }; Ok(FormOrJson(value)) } else if has_content_type(req, &mime::APPLICATION_WWW_FORM_URLENCODED) { let bytes = Bytes::from_request(req).await?; let value = serde_urlencoded::from_bytes(&bytes) .map_err(FailedToDeserializeQueryString::__private_new::<(), _>)?; Ok(FormOrJson(value)) } else { Err(InvalidFormOrJson.into()) } } }