From 21d5f23bdfb86d58ff029e68d3d8cc764b1e4d4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: laalauger <laalaguer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 11:31:36 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] update 1.0.12

---
 setup.py                   |  2 +-
 tests/test_transaction.py  | 11 ++++++++++-
 thor_devkit/transaction.py | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5730158..d32121d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="thor-devkit",
-    version="1.0.11",
+    version="1.0.12",
     author="laalaguer",
     author_email="laalaguer@gmail.com",
     description="SDK to interact with VeChain Thor public blockchain.",
diff --git a/tests/test_transaction.py b/tests/test_transaction.py
index dc5e5c8..6cba40d 100644
--- a/tests/test_transaction.py
+++ b/tests/test_transaction.py
@@ -238,4 +238,13 @@ def test_unused():
 
     reserved_list = delegated_tx_3._encode_reserved()
     assert reserved_list == [bytes.fromhex("01"), bytes.fromhex("0F0F")]
-    assert transaction.Transaction.decode(delegated_tx_3.encode(), True) == delegated_tx_3
\ No newline at end of file
+    assert transaction.Transaction.decode(delegated_tx_3.encode(), True) == delegated_tx_3
+
+def test_body_copy():
+    b1 = copy.deepcopy(body)
+    tx = transaction.Transaction(b1)
+    b2 = tx.get_body(False)
+    b3 = tx.get_body(True)
+
+    assert id(b2) != id(b3) # id should be different
+    assert b2 == b3 # content should be the same
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/thor_devkit/transaction.py b/thor_devkit/transaction.py
index db329e1..4a9045b 100644
--- a/thor_devkit/transaction.py
+++ b/thor_devkit/transaction.py
@@ -166,6 +166,22 @@ def __init__(self, body: dict):
         ''' Construct a transaction from a given body. '''
         self.body = BODY(body)
         self.signature = None
+    
+    def get_body(self, as_copy:bool = True):
+        '''
+        Get a dict of the body represents the transaction.
+        If as_copy, return a newly created dict.
+        If not, return the body used in this Transaction object.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        as_copy : bool, optional
+            Return a new dict clone of the body, by default True
+        '''
+        if as_copy:
+            return deepcopy(self.body)
+        else:
+            return self.body
 
     def _encode_reserved(self) -> List:
         r = self.body.get('reserved', None)