diff --git a/dropwizard-jsonapi/src/main/java/io/rtr/jsonapi/JsonAPIRequest.java b/dropwizard-jsonapi/src/main/java/io/rtr/jsonapi/JsonAPIRequest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e5e646e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dropwizard-jsonapi/src/main/java/io/rtr/jsonapi/JsonAPIRequest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+package io.rtr.jsonapi;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+
+public class JsonAPIRequest {
+  public Data data;
+  public Data getData() {
+    return data;
+  }
+  public void setData(Data data) {
+    this.data = data;
+  }
+  public class Data {
+    String type;
+    String id;
+    HashMap<String, Object> attributes;
+    public String getType() {
+      return type;
+    }
+    public void setType(String type) {
+      this.type = type;
+    }
+    public String getId() {
+      return id;
+    }
+    public void setId(String id) {
+      this.id = id;
+    }
+    public HashMap<String, Object> getAttributes() {
+      return attributes;
+    }
+    public void setAttributes(HashMap<String, Object>  attributes) {
+      this.attributes = attributes;
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/dropwizard-jsonapi/src/main/java/io/rtr/jsonapi/filter/JsonApiFeature.java b/dropwizard-jsonapi/src/main/java/io/rtr/jsonapi/filter/JsonApiFeature.java
index ef496f4..4b90ea2 100644
--- a/dropwizard-jsonapi/src/main/java/io/rtr/jsonapi/filter/JsonApiFeature.java
+++ b/dropwizard-jsonapi/src/main/java/io/rtr/jsonapi/filter/JsonApiFeature.java
@@ -26,6 +26,18 @@ protected void configure() {
         	context.register(JsonApiResponseFilter.class);
         	return true;
         }
+		if (!config.isRegistered(JsonApiRequestFilter.class)) {
+			context.register(new AbstractBinder() {
+
+				@Override
+				protected void configure() {
+					bindAsContract(ResourceMappingContext.class).in(Singleton.class);
+				}
+			});
+
+			context.register(JsonApiRequestFilter.class);
+			return true;
+		}
 		return false;
 	}
 
diff --git a/dropwizard-jsonapi/src/main/java/io/rtr/jsonapi/filter/JsonApiRequestFilter.java b/dropwizard-jsonapi/src/main/java/io/rtr/jsonapi/filter/JsonApiRequestFilter.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d6a5c3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dropwizard-jsonapi/src/main/java/io/rtr/jsonapi/filter/JsonApiRequestFilter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package io.rtr.jsonapi.filter;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import io.rtr.jsonapi.JsonAPIRequest;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.message.internal.MediaTypes;
+
+import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerRequestContext;
+import javax.ws.rs.container.ContainerRequestFilter;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
+import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+@Provider
+public class JsonApiRequestFilter implements ContainerRequestFilter
+{
+
+  public static final MediaType JSONAPI_MEDIATYPE = MediaType.valueOf("application/vnd.api+json");
+  @Override
+  public void filter(ContainerRequestContext requestContext)
+    throws IOException
+  {
+    if (requestContext.hasEntity() && MediaTypes.typeEqual(JSONAPI_MEDIATYPE, requestContext.getMediaType()))
+    {
+      InputStream in = requestContext.getEntityStream();
+      if (in.getClass() != ByteArrayInputStream.class) {
+        ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
+        JsonAPIRequest jsonAPIRequest = objectMapper.readValue(in, JsonAPIRequest.class);
+        // Buffer input
+        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        objectMapper.writeValue(baos, jsonAPIRequest.getData().getAttributes());
+
+        //set the input to be the attributes field itself
+        in = new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray());
+        requestContext.setEntityStream(in);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
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