fix: receive message type assumption on nullish values

a too eager message type assumption using `getPayload(String)` on the message leads to `null`'is values not being thus.
e.g. it's interpreted as `XML` instead of `PLAINTEXT`.
occured during implementation of citrusframework/citrus-simulator#315.

Author: bbortt

.mvn/settings.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+<settings>
+    <mirrors>
+        <mirror>
+            <id>maven</id>
+            <name>pf-central</name>
+            <url>https://repo.pnet.ch/artifactory/eta-maven/</url>
+            <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
+        </mirror>
+    </mirrors>
+    <servers>
+        <server>
+            <id>central</id>
+            <username>${api.username}</username>
+            <password>${api.password}</password>
+        </server>
+        <server>
+            <id>snapshots</id>
+            <username>${api.username}</username>
+            <password>${api.password}</password>
+        </server>
+    </servers>
+    <profiles>
+        <profile>
+            <id>artifactory</id>
+            <activation>
+                <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
+            </activation>
+            <repositories>
+                <repository>
+                    <id>central</id>
+                    <url>http://central</url>
+                    <releases>
+                        <enabled>true</enabled>
+                    </releases>
+                    <snapshots>
+                        <enabled>true</enabled>
+                    </snapshots>
+                </repository>
+            </repositories>
+            <pluginRepositories>
+                <pluginRepository>
+                    <id>central</id>
+                    <url>http://central</url>
+                    <releases>
+                        <enabled>true</enabled>
+                    </releases>
+                    <snapshots>
+                        <enabled>true</enabled>
+                    </snapshots>
+                </pluginRepository>
+            </pluginRepositories>
+        </profile>
+    </profiles>
+</settings>

core/citrus-api/src/main/java/org/citrusframework/CitrusSettings.java

@@ -16,18 +16,17 @@
 
 package org.citrusframework;
 
+import org.citrusframework.common.TestLoader;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Properties;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
-import org.citrusframework.common.TestLoader;
-import org.citrusframework.message.MessageType;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-
 import static java.lang.Boolean.parseBoolean;
 import static java.lang.System.getProperty;
 import static java.lang.System.getenv;
@@ -40,6 +39,7 @@
 import static org.citrusframework.common.TestLoader.JAVA;
 import static org.citrusframework.common.TestLoader.SPRING;
 import static org.citrusframework.common.TestLoader.YAML;
+import static org.citrusframework.message.MessageType.XML;
 
 public final class CitrusSettings {
 
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ private CitrusSettings() {
     public static final String DEFAULT_MESSAGE_TYPE = getPropertyEnvOrDefault(
             DEFAULT_MESSAGE_TYPE_PROPERTY,
             DEFAULT_MESSAGE_TYPE_ENV,
-            MessageType.XML.toString());
+            XML.toString());
 
     /**
      * Flag to allow deactivation of the http message builder citrus header update. See <a href="https://github.com/citrusframework/citrus/issues/1143">ISSUE-1143</a> for details.