Return jpeg image from Asp.Net Core WebAPI

Question

Using asp.net core web api, I want to have my controller action method to return an jpeg image stream.
In my current implementation, b

Answer 1

Clean solution use FilestreamResult !!

[HttpGet]
public async Task Get()
{
    var image = System.IO.File.OpenRead("C:\\test\\random_image.jpeg");
    return File(image, "image/jpeg");
}

Explanation:

In ASP.NET Core you have to use the built-in File() method inside the Controller. This will allow you to manually set the content type.

Don't create and return HttpResponseMessage, like you were used to using in ASP.NET Web API 2. It doesn't do anything, not even throwing errors!!