Respond with both body and status code in Nancy

Question

I'm new to Nancy and I want to return both a custom HttpStatusCode and a body (content). If I return an HttpStatusCode, it returns it with a blank body. If I return a string then it returns that as the body but always with a 200 status code of OK.

public class SendSMS : NancyModule
{
    public SendSMS()
    {
        Post["/SendSMS"] = parameters =>
            {
                return HttpStatusCode.BadRequest; // this works, no body
                return "Missing \"to\" parameter"; // this works, 200 status code
                // want to return status code with message
            };
    }
}

Solution 1

You could always create an instance of the Response type and set the Body and StatusCode yourself. If you wanted to take a shortcut you could do something like

var r = (Response)"Some string that goes into the body";
r.StatusCode = 123;

return r;

Solution 2

This should work.

public class SendSMS : NancyModule
{
   public SendSMS()
   {
       Post["/SendSMS"] = parameters =>
       {
           return Negotiate.WithModel("Missing \"to\" param")
                           .WithStatusCode(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest)           
       };
   }
} 

For more information check the docs on controlling content negotiation.

Solution 3

This is the simplest way I've found:

Return from your Module:

return new Response {
                StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.NotFound, ReasonPhrase = "Resource not found"
            };

Solution 4

If you have problems with encoding it's better to use

return new TextResponse(HttpStatusCode.STATUS, "Text Responsé")

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Comments

[Sachman Bhatti]

Only problem with this method was that it was escaping the string and adding quotes around it.

[tBlabs]

ReasonPhrase is additional text to code not a response body.

[Christian Horsdal]

Which version of Nancy are you using Anthony?