How to return a list of objects as an IHttpActionResult?

Question

I\'m new to ASP.NET webapi and I can\'t find a way to return a list of objects queried by id.

This is my controller method for the GET request. I want to return all the

Answer 1

Just simply return it like this, you need to use one of the nice methods that ApiController now supplies.

This will return a status code of 200 along with your questions collection.

[ResponseType(typeof(List))]
public async Task GetQuestion(int questionnaireId)
{
    var questions = from q in db.Questions
    where q.QuestionnaireId == questionnaireId
    select new Question()
    {
            Id = q.Id,
            ImageLink = q.ImageLink,
            QuestionnaireId = q.QuestionnaireId,
            Text = q.Text
    };
    return this.Ok(questions);
}