Return Custom HTTP Status Code from WebAPI 2 endpoint

Question

I\'m working on a service in WebAPI 2, and the endpoint currently returns an IHttpActionResult. I\'d like to return a status code 422, but since it\'s

Answer 1

Another simplified example:

public class MyController : ApiController
{
    public IHttpActionResult Get()
    {
        HttpStatusCode codeNotDefined = (HttpStatusCode)422;
        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);