Return content with IHttpActionResult for non-OK response

Question

For returning from a Web API 2 controller, I can return content with the response if the response is OK (status 200) like this:

    public IHttpActionResult          


        

Answer 1

Anyone who is interested in returning anything with any statuscode with returning ResponseMessage:

//CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode, T value)
return ResponseMessage(Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.XX, object));