ASP.Net Web Api Help

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Hi,
i am just learning web Apis in ASP.Net ... I getting the hang of it so far and my mini projects are working well. I was just wondering if someone would explain to me why we have to declare

C#

[ResponseType(typeof(myTable))]

above every IHttpAction result? and also what that does.

Thank you.

Posted 16-Dec-15 0:52am

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ZurdoDev 16-Dec-15 8:49am

I haven't used IHttpAction but being that the property is ResponseType it likely is declaring what return type the method will provide.

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xszaboj · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-16T05:26:00

Use this to specify the entity type returned by an action when the declared return type is HttpResponseMessage or IHttpActionResult. The ResponseType will be read by ApiExplorer when generating ApiDescription.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.http.description.responsetypeattribute(v=vs.118).aspx[^]

So the reason is to tell the user(consumer) what they can expect from you.