I am trying to build a POST call using Micronaut. Whenever I hit the API from POSTMAN, I always get body as “Optional.empty” in the server.

Controller :-

import io.micronaut.core.annotation.NonNull;
import io.micronaut.http.HttpHeaders;
import io.micronaut.http.HttpRequest;
import io.micronaut.http.MediaType;
import io.micronaut.http.annotation.*;
import jakarta.inject.Inject;
import lombok.extern.log4j.Log4j2;

import java.util.Objects;

@Controller("/abc/v1")
@Log4j2
public class AbcController {
      @Post("/get-new-user-referral-code")
      @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
      @Consumes(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
      @WithSpan
      public GetReferralCodeResponse getNewUserReferralCode(HttpRequest<?> request) {
        String body = request.getBody().toString();
        HttpHeaders headers = request.getHeaders();

        log.info("Body = {}", body);

    return apiResponse;
  }
}

build.gradle :-

import com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins.shadow.tasks.ShadowJar
plugins {
    id("com.github.johnrengelman.shadow") version "8.1.1"
    id("io.micronaut.application") version "4.4.0"
    id("io.micronaut.aot") version "4.4.0"
    id("groovy")
    id("jacoco")
}

version = "0.1"
group = "com.abc"

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    annotationProcessor("io.micronaut:micronaut-http-validation")
    annotationProcessor("io.micronaut.serde:micronaut-serde-processor")
    implementation("io.micronaut.serde:micronaut-serde-jackson")
    implementation("io.micronaut:micronaut-management")
    implementation("io.micronaut:micronaut-http-client")


    implementation 'jakarta.annotation:jakarta.annotation-api:2.1.1'
    implementation 'jakarta.xml.bind:jakarta.xml.bind-api:4.0.0'

    compileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.30'
    annotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.30'
    testCompileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.30'

    implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:bom'
    implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:appconfigdata'
    implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:sts'
    implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:netty-nio-client:2.24.3'
    implementation 'io.netty:netty-codec-http:4.1.108.Final'
    implementation 'com.github.luben:zstd-jni:1.5.6-6'
    implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:apache-client:2.20.69'
    implementation("software.amazon.awssdk:url-connection-client:2.17+")

    implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-core:1.2.3'
    implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:lambda:2.17.206'

    implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:dynamodb'
    implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:dynamodb-enhanced'

    implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:sns'
    implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:sqs'

    implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:2.20.0'
    implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:2.20.0'

    implementation 'org.json:json:20231013'
    implementation 'org.jsonschema2pojo:jsonschema2pojo-core:1.2.1'

    // opentelemetry
    implementation("io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-exporter-otlp")
    implementation('io.opentelemetry.instrumentation:opentelemetry-instrumentation-annotations:2.3.0')
    implementation("io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-exporter-logging")
    implementation("io.opentelemetry:opentelemetry-sdk")
    implementation("io.reactivex.rxjava2:rxjava:2.2.21")


    testAnnotationProcessor 'io.micronaut:micronaut-inject-java'

    implementation("io.micronaut.kafka:micronaut-kafka")

    developmentOnly("io.micronaut.controlpanel:micronaut-control-panel-ui")
    developmentOnly("io.micronaut.controlpanel:micronaut-control-panel-management")

    implementation("io.micronaut.objectstorage:micronaut-object-storage-aws")

    testImplementation 'org.mockito:mockito-core:3.12.4'

}


application {
    mainClass = "com.abc.Application"
}
java {
    sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.toVersion("21")
    targetCompatibility = JavaVersion.toVersion("21")
}


graalvmNative.toolchainDetection = false
micronaut {
    runtime("netty")
    testRuntime("junit5")
    processing {
        incremental(true)
        annotations("com.abc.*")
    }
    aot {
        // Please review carefully the optimizations enabled below
        // Check https://micronaut-projects.github.io/micronaut-aot/latest/guide/ for more details
        optimizeServiceLoading = false
        convertYamlToJava = false
        precomputeOperations = true
        cacheEnvironment = true
        optimizeClassLoading = true
        deduceEnvironment = true
        optimizeNetty = true
        replaceLogbackXml = true
    }
}


tasks.named("dockerfileNative") {
    jdkVersion = "21.0.4"
}

Logs

"Unrecognized token 'Optional': was expecting (JSON String, Number, Array, Object or token 'null', 'true' or 'false')n at [Source: REDACTED (`StreamReadFeature.INCLUDE_SOURCE_IN_LOCATION` disabled)

Curl Request :-

curl --location 'http://localhost:8080/referrals/v1/get-new-user-referral-code' 
--header 'Content-Length: 1000' 
--header 'Content-Type: text/plain' 
--data 'abc'

I have tried multiple changes from documentations available but no luck.
Can someone please help me understand why I am receiving empty body in the request.

GET requests are working fine.
I am also able to receive all the headers in the api.
Only issue is with body