.. _component-foundation-attributes:

Finally, you canalsostore additional data in the request,

thanks tothepublic ``attributes`` property, which is also an instance of

Thanks to the public ``attributes`` property, you can store additional data

intherequest, which is also an instance of

:class:`Symfony\\Component\\HttpFoundation\\ParameterBag`. This is mostly used

to attach information that belongs to the Request and that needs to be

accessed from many different points in your application. For information

on how this is used in the Symfony2 framework, see

:ref:`the Symfony2 book<book-fundamentals-attributes>`.

Finally, the raw data sent with the request body can be accessed using

:method:`Symfony\\Component\\HttpFoundation\\Request::getContent()`::

For instance, this may be useful to process a JSON string sent to the

application by a remote service using the HTTP POST method.

Identifying a Request