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

A more detailed example with support of HTTP code not defined in C# HttpStatusCode.

public class MyController : ApiController
{
    public IHttpActionResult Get()
    {
        HttpStatusCode codeNotDefined = (HttpStatusCode)429;
        return Content(codeNotDefined, "message to be sent in response body");
    }
}

Content is a virtual method defined in abstract class ApiController, the base of the controller. See the declaration as below:

protected internal virtual NegotiatedContentResult Content(HttpStatusCode statusCode, T value);