How to throw exception in Web API?

Question

How can I throw a exception to in ASP.net Web Api?

Below is my code:

public Test GetTestId(string id)
{
    Test test = _test.GetTest(id);

    if (t         


        

Answer 1

This should help you understand WebAPI error handling a bit better:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/youssefm/archive/2012/06/28/error-handling-in-asp-net-webapi.aspx

What you have in your code snippet should work. The server will send back a 404 Not Found to the client if test is null with no response body. If you want a response body, you should consider using Request.CreateErrorResponse as explained in the blog post above and passing that response to the HttpResponseException.

Answer 2

It's absolutely fine.

Alternatively, if you wish to provide more info (to allow, as you say, the client to distinguish from regular 404):

    if (test == null)
    {
         throw new HttpResponseException(Request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, 
"this item does not exist"));
    }