Doesn't ASP.NET Core have an InternalServerError()?

Question

The Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Controller base class doesn't have an equivalent of BadRequest(), Ok(), NoContent(), etc. for returning HTTP 500 status codes.

Why can't we do?

try{
  oops();
}
catch(Excpetion e){
  //some handling
  return InternalServerError(e);
}

I know can do return StatusCode(500);, but we are trying to be more consistent with our HTTP codes and would like to know if there is something more consistent with Ok() for returning a 500 code?

Answer 1

ASP.NET Core 2.x doesn't have InternalServerError method. Instead you can include the following library.

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;

And then use the following code.

return new StatusCodeResult(StatusCodes.Status500InternalServerError);

Or if you want to add the exception along with the response, try the following code

var result = StatusCode(StatusCodes.Status500InternalServerError, exception);
return result;    

Answer 2

If just like me you didn't understand where the StatusCode method is coming from in Karim's answer, this code will work just as well:

var errorObjectResult = new ObjectResult(exceptionMessage);
errorObjectResult.StatusCode = StatusCodes.Status500InternalServerError;
                
return errorObjectResult;