diff --git a/lib/Drupal/services/Plugin/rest/resource/AnnotationResourceExample.php b/lib/Drupal/services/Plugin/rest/resource/AnnotationResourceExample.php
index 33784bc15d81b79af6c5c6c0984e5583f046d3ec..eab6c00ce7befcf861f244048e63efea327a2b14 100644
--- a/lib/Drupal/services/Plugin/rest/resource/AnnotationResourceExample.php
+++ b/lib/Drupal/services/Plugin/rest/resource/AnnotationResourceExample.php
@@ -85,6 +85,6 @@ class AnnotationResourceExample extends AnnotationResourceBase {
    * )
    */
   public function examplePostCall() {
-    return new ResourceResponse(array('message' => 'POST call'));
+    return new ResourceResponse(array('message' => (object) array('POST call')));
   }
 }
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diff --git a/lib/Drupal/services/Tests/AnnotationResourceExampleTest.php b/lib/Drupal/services/Tests/AnnotationResourceExampleTest.php
index 6e36500b7b8852a59a07f04c901adfc780a1ed5f..c982e5805bc14dbd792be30989e24712be8297ca 100644
--- a/lib/Drupal/services/Tests/AnnotationResourceExampleTest.php
+++ b/lib/Drupal/services/Tests/AnnotationResourceExampleTest.php
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class AnnotationResourceExampleTest extends RESTTestBase {
 
     $response = $this->httpRequest('examplePostCall', 'POST', NULL, $this->defaultMimeType);
     $decoded_response = drupal_json_decode($response);
-    $decoded_expected = array('message' => 'POST call');
+    $decoded_expected = array('message' => array('POST call'));
     $this->assertIdentical($decoded_expected, $decoded_response, 'examplePostCall response expected');
 
     $arg1 = $this->randomName();