Returning Empty ActionResult

asp.net-mvc actionresult bad-request
Maxim V. Pavlov picture Maxim V. Pavlov · Feb 8, 2012 · Viewed 23.8k times · Source

I may encounter situations, when I need to just return bad request result.

For example, there is a call to MVC 3 site's controllers action, but the required parameter is missing in a request uri.

What do I return in response. I know I can do this:

Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.BadRequest;
return Content(string.Empty);

Is this the correct way for the above described situation?

Answer

Sergey Kudriavtsev picture Sergey Kudriavtsev · Feb 8, 2012

Your solution will work OK, but more clear way will be using HttpStatusCodeResult class, like this:

return new HttpStatusCodeResult(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);

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