Can't get error message on BadRequest in Web Api 2

Question

I've googled a lot searching for an answer to my problem with no luck so, let's try if someone else can help me.

I have a Web Api 2 action to register an user after doing some validations. If everything works, it return the serialized user and if don't, an error message sent within a BadRequest response.

At the other hand, I have a WPF client that calls the API for a response.

My problem is that I can't get the reason sent by the error, the client just get the Bad Request error message.

This is a part of the code:

Web Api Action:

public async Task<IHttpActionResult> AddUser(NewUserDTO {
    if (!ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        return BadRequest(ModelState);
    }
    if (!model.IdCliente.HasValue)
    {
        ModelState.AddModelError("", "No existe el cliente");
        return BadRequest(ModelState);
    }
    // do save stuff
    return Ok(TheModelFactory.Create(user));
}

Client function:

public async Task<ApplicationUserDTO> AddUser(NewUserDTO dto) {
    using (var client = new HttpClient()) {
        client.BaseAddress = new Uri(_urlBase);
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", Token);
        HttpContent content = new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dto));
        content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
        HttpResponseMessage responseMessage = await client.PostAsync("api/accounts/AddUser", content);
        if (responseMessage.IsSuccessStatusCode) {
            var responseJson = await responseMessage.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
            user = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ApplicationUserDTO>(responseJson);
        }
        else
             MessageBox.Show(responseMessage.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result);
        return user;
    } 
}

Anyone can help?

Edited:

DTO:

[Serializable]
public class NewUserDTO {
public int? IdCliente { get; set; }
[Required]
public string UserName { get; set; }
[Required]
public string Email { get; set; }
public string Role { get; set; }
public string Password { get; set; } }

Anyway... the dto is sent correctly to api nut, here's the serialized dto as you asked for:

"{\"IdCliente\":null,\"UserName\":\"Toni\",\"Email\":\"[email protected]\",\"Role\":\"Filtra\",\"Password\":\"TONI\"}"

Can you put debug point at line HttpContent content = new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dto)); and post value of content? Also definition of NewUserDTO type as well. — Pankaj Kapare
– Pankaj Kapare, Commented Feb 22, 2016 at 1:24
@ToniMoreno Can you post where you add your filters if you have any — jolySoft
– jolySoft, Commented Feb 23, 2016 at 9:36
code public static void RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilterCollection filters) { filters.Add(new HandleErrorAttribute());} — Toni Moreno
– Toni Moreno, Commented Feb 23, 2016 at 17:45

Alexan · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-15 22:37:12Z

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API

return new BadRequestErrorMessageResult(yourErrorMessage);

Client

var errorMessage = responseMessage.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
MessageBox.Show(errorMessage);

edited May 15, 2017 at 22:37

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answered May 15, 2017 at 22:19

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Jonathan Counihan · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-29 12:39:55Z

Have you checked your web.config httpErrors section?

I had the same issue because my web.config looked like this

<httpErrors errorMode="Custom" existingResponse="Replace">
    <clear />
    <error statusCode="404" path="~/Error/NotFound" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
    <error statusCode="403" path="~/Error/AccessDenied" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
    <error statusCode="500" path="~/Error/ServerError" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
</httpErrors>

You must make sure that existingResponse is set to PassThrough

<httpErrors errorMode="Custom" existingResponse="PassThrough">
    <clear />
    <error statusCode="404" path="~/Error/NotFound" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
    <error statusCode="403" path="~/Error/AccessDenied" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
    <error statusCode="500" path="~/Error/ServerError" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
</httpErrors>

Not sure if it will help you, but give it a shot.

jolySoft · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-22 22:10:51Z

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Instead of returning it, throw a request exception:

throw new HttpResponseException(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest);

Unless you require more detail passing o the client in which case you could pass back a Request.CreateErrorResponse but you would need to change the return type to HttpResponseMessage

edited Feb 22, 2016 at 22:10

answered Feb 22, 2016 at 11:15

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Toni Moreno Over a year ago

It doesn't work. I guess the error is cached by any filter and it returns to the client the html source code for the Internal Server Error page.

jolySoft Over a year ago

@ToniMoreno Sorry quick, corrected now. Possible duplicate here to, have a look at this: stackoverflow.com/questions/12519561/…

jsxsl Over a year ago

Making this change to return an HttpResponseException then adding the error detail policy I posted should return your the error details!

jsxsl · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-22 22:40:20Z

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Add the line below to WebAPIConfig.cs in the Register method. This will include the error details instead of just the generic 500 internal server error.

        GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.IncludeErrorDetailPolicy = IncludeErrorDetailPolicy.Always;

answered Feb 22, 2016 at 22:40

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Toni Moreno · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-24 23:10:43Z

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Finally, I gived up. Maybe some code at web.config, mvc config, api config, filtering or whatever is disturbing and sending a diferent response than the controller does. I added a status code and a message property to my DTO and return always an object. Thanks anyway to all who tried to help me.

answered Feb 24, 2016 at 23:10

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Sujoy Over a year ago

What does "gived up" mean? Stackovflow is allowing such language.

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