diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 263fe34..c7263be 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <groupId>com.mservicetech</groupId>
     <artifactId>openapi-schema-validation</artifactId>
-    <version>2.0.2</version>
+    <version>2.0.3</version>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <description>openapi schema  for openpai 3.*</description>
     <url>https://github.com/mservicetech/openapi-schema-validation</url>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/mservicetech/openapi/common/RequestEntity.java b/src/main/java/com/mservicetech/openapi/common/RequestEntity.java
index b04520b..c8b8302 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/mservicetech/openapi/common/RequestEntity.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/mservicetech/openapi/common/RequestEntity.java
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+
 public class RequestEntity {
 
     Map<String, ?> pathParameters;
@@ -53,6 +55,10 @@ public void setRequestBody(String requestBody) {
         this.requestBody = requestBody;
     }
 
+    public void setRequestBody(JsonNode requestBody) {
+        this.requestBody = requestBody.toPrettyString();
+    }
+
     public String getContentType() {
         return contentType;
     }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/mservicetech/openapi/validation/OpenApiValidatorTest.java b/src/test/java/com/mservicetech/openapi/validation/OpenApiValidatorTest.java
index 6d6913c..4387357 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/mservicetech/openapi/validation/OpenApiValidatorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/mservicetech/openapi/validation/OpenApiValidatorTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 package com.mservicetech.openapi.validation;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.mservicetech.openapi.common.RequestEntity;
 
 import com.mservicetech.openapi.common.Status;
@@ -81,6 +84,21 @@ public void testRequestBody3() {
         //{"statusCode":400,"code":"ERR11004","message":"VALIDATOR_SCHEMA","description":"Schema Validation Error - requestBody.id: string found, integer expected","severity":"ERROR"}
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testRequestBody4() throws JsonProcessingException {
+        InputStream in = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("json/req3.json");
+        String req = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in, StandardCharsets.UTF_8)).lines().collect(Collectors.joining("\n"));
+        RequestEntity requestEntity = new RequestEntity();
+        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+        JsonNode jsonNode = mapper.readTree(req);
+        requestEntity.setRequestBody(jsonNode);
+        requestEntity.setContentType("application/json");
+        Status status = openApiValidator.validateRequestPath("/pets", "post", requestEntity);
+        Assert.assertNotNull(status);
+        Assert.assertEquals( status.getCode(), "ERR11004");
+        //{"statusCode":400,"code":"ERR11004","message":"VALIDATOR_SCHEMA","description":"Schema Validation Error - requestBody.id: string found, integer expected","severity":"ERROR"}
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testRequestPath() {