You might decide not to use IHttpActionResult
because your existing code builds a HttpResponseMessage
that doesn’t fit one of the canned responses. You can however adapt HttpResponseMessage
to IHttpActionResult
using the canned response of ResponseMessage
. It took me a while to figure this out, so I wanted to post it showing that you don’t necesarily have to choose one or the other:
public IHttpActionResult SomeAction() { IHttpActionResult response; //we want a 303 with the ability to set location HttpResponseMessage responseMsg = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.RedirectMethod); responseMsg.Headers.Location = new Uri("http://customLocation.blah"); response = ResponseMessage(responseMsg); return response; }
Note, ResponseMessage
is a method of the base class ApiController
that your controller should inherit from.