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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def body_as_json(self, encoding='UTF-8'):
 """ The body of the event loaded as a JSON object is the data is compatible. :param encoding: The encoding to use for decoding message data. Default is 'UTF-8' :rtype: dict """

        data_str = self.body_as_str(encoding=encoding)
        try:
            return json.loads(data_str)
        except Exception as e:
            raise TypeError("Event data is not compatible with JSON type: {}".format(e))