Put content in HttpResponseMessage object?

Question

Several months ago, Microsoft decided to change up the HttpResponseMessage class. Before, you could simply pass a data type into the constructor, and then return the message

Answer 1

The easiest single-line solution is to use

return new HttpResponseMessage( HttpStatusCode.OK ) {Content =  new StringContent( "Your message here" ) };

For serialized JSON content:

return new HttpResponseMessage( HttpStatusCode.OK ) {Content =  new StringContent( SerializedString, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, "application/json" ) };