How to return a message together with an Httpstatuscode

Question

I have the following method in my Controller:

public IHttpActionResult Get(string id) 
    {
        var product = objds.GetProduct(new ObjectId(id));
        if (product == null)
        {
            return NotFound();
        }
        return Ok(product);
    }

If the product is null then return one 404, otherwise return a OK with the product. My doubts are as follows::

• How can I return a message along with the status 404?
• Do you have any problem returning a message along with the status?

Answer 1

How can I return a message along with 404 status?

In a simple way, just do this:

return Content(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, "Foo does not exist.");

Have a problem returning a message along with the status?

There is no problem with this. What usually happens is that you get the answer when making a request to an API. Now, if you want to send a message together, you can do.

There are other ways to implement this same functionality, as shown in this answer