How to return HttpResponseException with Status and text message

I have this :

    [HttpDelete] 
    public HttpResponseMessage DeleteClient(int idCliente)
    {
     

        return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK);

    }

how to return a message text next to status?

Answers:

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Method 1

Why do you have HttpResponseException in the subject? If you really need to return an error status code with a message while throwing an exception, HttpResponseException has a constructor that takes an HttpResponseMessage instance.

But in .NET Core that exception only in the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.WebApiCompatShim backwards compatibility package. The recommended way is just to return the HttpResponseMessage with an error status code directly.

Method 2

You could do something like this:

return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
    Content = new StringContent("The Message")
};

If you want to return JSON (using Newtonsoft.Json library), you could do:

return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK)
{
    Content = new StringContent(
        JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new { message = "The Message" }), 
            Encoding.UTF8, "application/json")
};

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