title: How to make a REST call from Spring MVC Controller and return the response as it is
body: <p>I am trying to make a webservice call from my Spring MVC controller using RestTemplate,  I was wondering if there is a way to return the response as it is without unmarshaling to a Java object.</p>
  
  <p>For example like in play framework,</p>
  
  <p><code>HttpResponse res = WS.url(url).get();
  renderJSON(res.getString()); // or res.getJson()</code></p>
  
  <p>Most of my responses would be JSON or very rare case it might be a String.</p>