I'm invoking a rest service that returns JSON like this:

{
   "some.key" : "some value",
   "another.key" : "another value"
}

I would like to think that I can invoke this service with a java.util.Map as the response type but that's not working for me. I get this exception:

org.springframework.web.client.RestClientException: Could not extract response: no suitable HttpMessageConverter found for response type [interface java.util.Map]

Should I just specify String as the response type and convert the JSON to a Map?