diff --git a/src/main/java/com/force/api/ResourceRepresentation.java b/src/main/java/com/force/api/ResourceRepresentation.java
index 2823dcb..c3f368b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/force/api/ResourceRepresentation.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/force/api/ResourceRepresentation.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package com.force.api;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
@@ -69,6 +70,24 @@ public List<?> asList() {
 		}
 	}
 
+	public String asJsonString() {
+		try {
+			Object o = jsonMapper.readValue(response.getStream(), Object.class);
+			return jsonMapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(o);
+		} catch (IOException e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+			throw new ResourceException(e);
+		}
+	}
+
+	public InputStream asStream() {
+		return response.getStream();
+	}
+
+	public byte[] asBytes() {
+		return response.getByte();
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 *
 	 * @return the HTTP response code of the underlying request if it was between 200 and 299. Any code outside of that
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/force/api/ResourceRepresentationTest.java b/src/test/java/com/force/api/ResourceRepresentationTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..71c03dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/com/force/api/ResourceRepresentationTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package com.force.api;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+public class ResourceRepresentationTest {
+
+    ForceApi api;
+    String recordId;
+
+    @Before
+    public void init() {
+        api = new ForceApi(new ApiConfig()
+            .setUsername(Fixture.get("username"))
+            .setPassword(Fixture.get("password")));
+        recordId = api.query("SELECT id FROM Account",Account.class).getRecords().get(0).getId();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testRawJson() {
+        String jsonString = api.getSObject("account", recordId).asJsonString();
+        // Pretty lame smoke test to see if we got some json back.
+        assertEquals(jsonString.charAt(0),'{');
+    }
+}