diff --git a/kubernetes-server-mock/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/server/mock/KubernetesResponseComposer.java b/kubernetes-server-mock/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/server/mock/KubernetesResponseComposer.java
index 185af2466f1..d84b64e7c36 100644
--- a/kubernetes-server-mock/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/server/mock/KubernetesResponseComposer.java
+++ b/kubernetes-server-mock/src/main/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/server/mock/KubernetesResponseComposer.java
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ private static String join(String sep, Collection<String> collection) {
   @Override
   public String compose(Collection<String> collection) {
     return String.format(
-        "{\"apiVersion\":\"v1\",\"kind\":\"List\", \"items\": [%s]}",
+        "{\"apiVersion\":\"v1\",\"kind\":\"List\", \"items\": [%s], " +
+         "\"metadata\": {\"resourceVersion\": \"\", \"selfLink\": \"\"}}",
         join(",", collection));
   }
 }
diff --git a/kubernetes-tests/src/test/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/mock/CrudInformerTest.java b/kubernetes-tests/src/test/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/mock/CrudInformerTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6f02cbc3bbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes-tests/src/test/java/io/fabric8/kubernetes/client/mock/CrudInformerTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (C) 2020 VMware, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.mock;
+
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.Pod;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.PodBuilder;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.PodList;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.KubernetesClient;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.informers.ResourceEventHandler;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.informers.SharedIndexInformer;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.informers.SharedInformerFactory;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.server.mock.KubernetesServer;
+import org.junit.Rule;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.migrationsupport.rules.EnableRuleMigrationSupport;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue;
+import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+
+@EnableRuleMigrationSupport
+public class CrudInformerTest {
+  @Rule
+  public KubernetesServer server = new KubernetesServer(true, true);
+
+  // https://github.com/fabric8io/kubernetes-client/issues/2306
+  @Test
+  void testCrudInformer() throws InterruptedException {
+    Pod podToCreate = new PodBuilder().withNewMetadata().withName("pod1").endMetadata().build();
+    KubernetesClient client = server.getClient();
+    SharedInformerFactory factory = client.informers();
+    SharedIndexInformer<Pod> podInformer = factory.sharedIndexInformerFor(Pod.class, PodList.class, 4000);
+    BlockingQueue<Pod> events = new LinkedBlockingQueue<>();
+    podInformer.addEventHandler(
+      new ResourceEventHandler<Pod>() {
+        @Override
+        public void onAdd(Pod obj) {
+          events.add(obj);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void onUpdate(Pod oldObj, Pod newObj) {
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void onDelete(Pod oldObj, boolean deletedFinalStateUnknown) {
+        }
+      });
+    factory.startAllRegisteredInformers();
+    client.pods().create(podToCreate);
+    Pod readPod = events.poll(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+    assertNotNull(readPod);
+    assertEquals(readPod.getMetadata().getName(), podToCreate.getMetadata().getName());
+    factory.stopAllRegisteredInformers();
+  }
+}