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EventLoader unable to correctly deserialize posted json body data for APIGateway events

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Description

Using aws-lambda-java-tests v 1.1.1 and attempting to write a unit test for my lambda function handler (integrated with API Gateway).

Here is a snippet from my junit test - attempting to load a test event to pass to the handler function:
```
APIGatewayV2HTTPEvent event = EventLoader.loadApiGatewayHttpEvent("events/broken.json");

//proceed to pass the event to the function handler

```
The contents of the file 'broken.json' are as follows :
```
{
"version": "2.0",
"headers": {
"content-type":"application/json"
},
"requestContext": {
"accountId": "123456789012",
"apiId": "api-id"
}
,
"body": {
"firstName":"John",
"lastName":"Doe",
"nickName":"Jonny D"
},
"isBase64Encoded": false
}
```
All the documentation and examples I've found only use a string as the body, but this is a fairly common use case (an HTTP API accepting json data into a POST for updating information). From above, the body has a simple json object structure representing a person. Because the APIGatewayV2HTTPEvent defines the body as a string, the EventLoader fails with the following exception:
```
java.io.UncheckedIOException: com.amazonaws.lambda.thirdparty.com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException: Cannot deserialize instance of `java.lang.String` out of START_OBJECT token
at [Source: (BufferedInputStream); line: 11, column: 11] (through reference chain: com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.APIGatewayV2HTTPEvent["body"])
```

What am I missing here? Is this a deficiency in the EventLoader class, or am I attempting to test this behavior in the wrong way?

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