diff --git a/examples/consume-body-in-extractor-or-middleware/Cargo.toml b/examples/consume-body-in-extractor-or-middleware/Cargo.toml
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+[package]
+name = "example-consume-body-in-extractor-or-middleware"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2018"
+publish = false
+
+[dependencies]
+axum = { path = "../../axum" }
+hyper = "0.14"
+tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["full"] }
+tower = "0.4"
+tower-http = { version = "0.2", features = ["map-request-body", "util"] }
+tracing = "0.1"
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = ["env-filter"] }
diff --git a/examples/consume-body-in-extractor-or-middleware/src/main.rs b/examples/consume-body-in-extractor-or-middleware/src/main.rs
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+//! Run with
+//!
+//! ```not_rust
+//! cargo run -p example-consume-body-in-extractor-or-middleware
+//! ```
+
+use axum::{
+    async_trait,
+    body::{self, BoxBody, Bytes, Full},
+    extract::{FromRequest, RequestParts},
+    http::{Request, StatusCode},
+    middleware::{self, Next},
+    response::{IntoResponse, Response},
+    routing::post,
+    Router,
+};
+use std::net::SocketAddr;
+use tower::ServiceBuilder;
+use tower_http::ServiceBuilderExt;
+use tracing_subscriber::{layer::SubscriberExt, util::SubscriberInitExt};
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() {
+    tracing_subscriber::registry()
+        .with(tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::new(
+            std::env::var("RUST_LOG")
+                .unwrap_or_else(|_| "example_consume_body_in_extractor_or_middleware=debug".into()),
+        ))
+        .with(tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer())
+        .init();
+
+    let app = Router::new().route("/", post(handler)).layer(
+        ServiceBuilder::new()
+            .map_request_body(body::boxed)
+            .layer(middleware::from_fn(print_request_body)),
+    );
+
+    let addr = SocketAddr::from(([127, 0, 0, 1], 3000));
+    tracing::debug!("listening on {}", addr);
+    axum::Server::bind(&addr)
+        .serve(app.into_make_service())
+        .await
+        .unwrap();
+}
+
+// middleware that shows how to consume the request body upfront
+async fn print_request_body(
+    request: Request<BoxBody>,
+    next: Next<BoxBody>,
+) -> Result<impl IntoResponse, Response> {
+    let request = buffer_request_body(request).await?;
+
+    Ok(next.run(request).await)
+}
+
+// the trick is to take the request apart, buffer the body, do what you need to do, then put
+// the request back together
+async fn buffer_request_body(request: Request<BoxBody>) -> Result<Request<BoxBody>, Response> {
+    let (parts, body) = request.into_parts();
+
+    // this wont work if the body is an long running stream
+    let bytes = hyper::body::to_bytes(body)
+        .await
+        .map_err(|err| (StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, err.to_string()).into_response())?;
+
+    do_thing_with_request_body(bytes.clone());
+
+    Ok(Request::from_parts(parts, body::boxed(Full::from(bytes))))
+}
+
+fn do_thing_with_request_body(bytes: Bytes) {
+    tracing::debug!(body = ?bytes);
+}
+
+async fn handler(_: PrintRequestBody, body: Bytes) {
+    tracing::debug!(?body, "handler received body");
+}
+
+// extractor that shows how to consume the request body upfront
+struct PrintRequestBody;
+
+#[async_trait]
+impl FromRequest<BoxBody> for PrintRequestBody {
+    type Rejection = Response;
+
+    async fn from_request(req: &mut RequestParts<BoxBody>) -> Result<Self, Self::Rejection> {
+        let request = Request::from_request(req)
+            .await
+            .map_err(|err| err.into_response())?;
+
+        let request = buffer_request_body(request).await?;
+
+        *req = RequestParts::new(request);
+
+        Ok(Self)
+    }
+}