diff --git a/lib/rest_client.robot b/lib/rest_client.robot
index 423ab0d..2b70d54 100644
--- a/lib/rest_client.robot
+++ b/lib/rest_client.robot
@@ -396,6 +396,8 @@
     ...  data=${data}  headers=${headers}
     Should Be Equal As Strings  ${resp.status_code}  ${HTTP_CREATED}
 
+    ${content}=  To JSON  ${resp.content}
+
     Set Global Variable  ${XAUTH_TOKEN}  ${resp.headers["X-Auth-Token"]}
 
-    [Return]  ${resp}
+    [Return]  ${content}