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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 _as_json(self, response):
 """Assuming this is not empty, return the content as JSON. Result/exceptions is not determined if you call this method without testing _is_empty. :raises: DeserializationError if response body contains invalid json data. """

        # Assume ClientResponse has "body", and otherwise it's a requests.Response
        content = response.text() if hasattr(response, "body") else response.text
        try:
            return json.loads(content)
        except ValueError:
            raise DeserializationError(
                "Error occurred in deserializing the response body.")