From 8d4298ed883a5ab71fa8c7173a686f06ef34a11f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Graeme Rocher <graeme.rocher@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 09:37:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] When using respond, of the object is a map treat it as the
 model

---
 .../web/rest/render/html/DefaultHtmlRenderer.groovy        | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/grails-plugin-rest/src/main/groovy/org/grails/plugins/web/rest/render/html/DefaultHtmlRenderer.groovy b/grails-plugin-rest/src/main/groovy/org/grails/plugins/web/rest/render/html/DefaultHtmlRenderer.groovy
index d848b82546a..c661362aa8f 100644
--- a/grails-plugin-rest/src/main/groovy/org/grails/plugins/web/rest/render/html/DefaultHtmlRenderer.groovy
+++ b/grails-plugin-rest/src/main/groovy/org/grails/plugins/web/rest/render/html/DefaultHtmlRenderer.groovy
@@ -81,7 +81,12 @@ class DefaultHtmlRenderer<T> implements Renderer<T> {
     }
 
     protected void applyModel(RenderContext context, Object object) {
-        context.setModel([(resolveModelVariableName(object)): object])
+        if(object instanceof Map) {
+            context.setModel((Map)object)
+        }
+        else {
+            context.setModel([(resolveModelVariableName(object)): object])
+        }
     }
 
     protected String resolveModelVariableName(Object object) {