diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/snapshots/get/GetSnapshotsRequest.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/snapshots/get/GetSnapshotsRequest.java
index e90f9e578ce37..32c9493b440d5 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/snapshots/get/GetSnapshotsRequest.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/admin/cluster/snapshots/get/GetSnapshotsRequest.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ public class GetSnapshotsRequest extends MasterNodeRequest<GetSnapshotsRequest>
 
     public static final String ALL_SNAPSHOTS = "_all";
     public static final String CURRENT_SNAPSHOT = "_current";
+    public static final boolean DEFAULT_VERBOSE_MODE = true;
 
     private String repository;
 
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ public class GetSnapshotsRequest extends MasterNodeRequest<GetSnapshotsRequest>
 
     private boolean ignoreUnavailable;
 
-    private boolean verbose = true;
+    private boolean verbose = DEFAULT_VERBOSE_MODE;
 
     public GetSnapshotsRequest() {
     }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/admin/cluster/RestGetSnapshotsAction.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/admin/cluster/RestGetSnapshotsAction.java
index 160bada6474d0..f42180b5029b8 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/admin/cluster/RestGetSnapshotsAction.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/admin/cluster/RestGetSnapshotsAction.java
@@ -20,26 +20,18 @@
 package org.elasticsearch.rest.action.admin.cluster;
 
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.snapshots.get.GetSnapshotsRequest;
-import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.snapshots.get.GetSnapshotsResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.client.node.NodeClient;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.ToXContent;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.rest.BaseRestHandler;
-import org.elasticsearch.rest.BytesRestResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.rest.RestController;
 import org.elasticsearch.rest.RestRequest;
-import org.elasticsearch.rest.RestResponse;
-import org.elasticsearch.rest.action.RestBuilderListener;
+import org.elasticsearch.rest.action.RestToXContentListener;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.Collections;
-import java.util.Map;
 
 import static org.elasticsearch.client.Requests.getSnapshotsRequest;
 import static org.elasticsearch.rest.RestRequest.Method.GET;
-import static org.elasticsearch.rest.RestStatus.OK;
 
 /**
  * Returns information about snapshot
@@ -60,19 +52,10 @@ public RestChannelConsumer prepareRequest(final RestRequest request, final NodeC
         String repository = request.param("repository");
         String[] snapshots = request.paramAsStringArray("snapshot", Strings.EMPTY_ARRAY);
 
-        final GetSnapshotsRequest getSnapshotsRequest = getSnapshotsRequest(repository).snapshots(snapshots);
+        GetSnapshotsRequest getSnapshotsRequest = getSnapshotsRequest(repository).snapshots(snapshots);
         getSnapshotsRequest.ignoreUnavailable(request.paramAsBoolean("ignore_unavailable", getSnapshotsRequest.ignoreUnavailable()));
         getSnapshotsRequest.verbose(request.paramAsBoolean("verbose", getSnapshotsRequest.verbose()));
         getSnapshotsRequest.masterNodeTimeout(request.paramAsTime("master_timeout", getSnapshotsRequest.masterNodeTimeout()));
-        return channel -> client.admin().cluster().getSnapshots(getSnapshotsRequest,
-            new RestBuilderListener<GetSnapshotsResponse>(channel) {
-                @Override
-                public RestResponse buildResponse(GetSnapshotsResponse response, XContentBuilder builder) throws Exception {
-                    Map<String, String> params = Collections.singletonMap("verbose", Boolean.toString(getSnapshotsRequest.verbose()));
-                    ToXContent.MapParams xContentParams = new ToXContent.MapParams(params);
-                    response.toXContent(builder, xContentParams);
-                    return new BytesRestResponse(OK, builder);
-                }
-            });
+        return channel -> client.admin().cluster().getSnapshots(getSnapshotsRequest, new RestToXContentListener<>(channel));
     }
 }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/SnapshotInfo.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/SnapshotInfo.java
index de6a4e2987e25..de0a52ed0e46a 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/SnapshotInfo.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/SnapshotInfo.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchParseException;
 import org.elasticsearch.Version;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ShardOperationFailedException;
+import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.snapshots.get.GetSnapshotsRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Nullable;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
@@ -346,7 +347,7 @@ public XContentBuilder toXContent(final XContentBuilder builder, final Params pa
             return toXContentSnapshot(builder, params);
         }
 
-        final boolean verbose = params.paramAsBoolean("verbose", false);
+        final boolean verbose = params.paramAsBoolean("verbose", GetSnapshotsRequest.DEFAULT_VERBOSE_MODE);
         // write snapshot info for the API and any other situations
         builder.startObject();
         builder.field(SNAPSHOT, snapshotId.getName());