只是更新一下ASP的当前状态。净之前。接口现在被称为IActionResult，实现没有太大变化:

[JsonObject(IsReference = true)]
public class DuplicateEntityException : IActionResult
{        
    public DuplicateEntityException(object duplicateEntity, object entityId)
    {
        this.EntityType = duplicateEntity.GetType().Name;
        this.EntityId = entityId;
    }

    /// <summary>
    ///     Id of the duplicate (new) entity
    /// </summary>
    public object EntityId { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    ///     Type of the duplicate (new) entity
    /// </summary>
    public string EntityType { get; set; }

    public Task ExecuteResultAsync(ActionContext context)
    {
        var message = new StringContent($"{this.EntityType ?? "Entity"} with id {this.EntityId ?? "(no id)"} already exist in the database");

        var response = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.Ambiguous) { Content = message };

        return Task.FromResult(response);
    }

    #endregion
}

对于我来说，我通常发送回一个HttpResponseException，并根据抛出的异常设置相应的状态代码，如果异常是致命的，将决定我是否立即发送回HttpResponseException。

在一天结束的时候，它是一个返回响应而不是视图的API，所以我认为向使用者发送带有异常和状态代码的消息是很好的。我目前还不需要积累错误并将它们发送回来，因为大多数异常通常是由于不正确的参数或调用等。

在我的应用程序中的一个例子是，有时客户端会要求数据，但没有任何数据可用，所以我抛出一个自定义NoDataAvailableException，让它气泡到Web API应用程序，然后在我的自定义过滤器捕捉它发送回一个相关的消息以及正确的状态代码。

我不是100%确定这方面的最佳实践是什么，但这对我来说目前是有效的，所以这就是我正在做的。

更新:

自从我回答了这个问题，就有一些关于这个话题的博客文章:

https://weblogs.asp.net/fredriknormen/asp-net-web-api-exception-handling

(这个版本在夜间版本中有一些新特性) https://learn.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/youssefm/error-handling-in-asp-net-webapi

更新2

更新我们的错误处理过程，我们有两种情况:

For general errors like not found, or invalid parameters being passed to an action we return a HttpResponseException to stop processing immediately. Additionally for model errors in our actions we will hand the model state dictionary to the Request.CreateErrorResponse extension and wrap it in a HttpResponseException. Adding the model state dictionary results in a list of the model errors sent in the response body. For errors that occur in higher layers, server errors, we let the exception bubble to the Web API app, here we have a global exception filter which looks at the exception, logs it with ELMAH and tries to make sense of it setting the correct HTTP status code and a relevant friendly error message as the body again in a HttpResponseException. For exceptions that we aren't expecting the client will receive the default 500 internal server error, but a generic message due to security reasons.

更新3

最近，在选择Web API 2后，为了发送回一般错误，我们现在使用IHttpActionResult接口，特别是在System.Web.Http.Results命名空间中内置的类，如NotFound, BadRequest，当他们适合时，如果他们不适合，我们扩展他们，例如一个NotFound结果与响应消息:

public class NotFoundWithMessageResult : IHttpActionResult
{
    private string message;

    public NotFoundWithMessageResult(string message)
    {
        this.message = message;
    }

    public Task<HttpResponseMessage> ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        var response = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.NotFound);
        response.Content = new StringContent(message);
        return Task.FromResult(response);
    }
}

ASP。NET Web API 2确实简化了它。例如，以下代码:

public HttpResponseMessage GetProduct(int id)
{
    Product item = repository.Get(id);
    if (item == null)
    {
        var message = string.Format("Product with id = {0} not found", id);
        HttpError err = new HttpError(message);
        return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound, err);
    }
    else
    {
        return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, item);
    }
}

当没有找到该项时，返回以下内容到浏览器:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:27:18 GMT
Content-Length: 51

{
  "Message": "Product with id = 12 not found"
}

建议:除非有灾难性错误(例如WCF Fault Exception)，否则不要抛出HTTP Error 500。选择一个表示数据状态的适当HTTP状态代码。(请参阅下面的apigee链接。)

链接:

ASP中的异常处理。NET Web API (asp.net) 而且 RESTful API设计:错误怎么办?(apigee.com)

基于Manish Jain的回答(这意味着Web API 2简化了事情):

1)使用验证结构来响应尽可能多的验证错误。这些结构还可以用于响应来自表单的请求。

public class FieldError
{
    public String FieldName { get; set; }
    public String FieldMessage { get; set; }
}

// a result will be able to inform API client about some general error/information and details information (related to invalid parameter values etc.)
public class ValidationResult<T>
{
    public bool IsError { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// validation message. It is used as a success message if IsError is false, otherwise it is an error message
    /// </summary>
    public string Message { get; set; } = string.Empty;

    public List<FieldError> FieldErrors { get; set; } = new List<FieldError>();

    public T Payload { get; set; }

    public void AddFieldError(string fieldName, string fieldMessage)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(fieldName))
            throw new ArgumentException("Empty field name");

        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(fieldMessage))
            throw new ArgumentException("Empty field message");

        // appending error to existing one, if field already contains a message
        var existingFieldError = FieldErrors.FirstOrDefault(e => e.FieldName.Equals(fieldName));
        if (existingFieldError == null)
            FieldErrors.Add(new FieldError {FieldName = fieldName, FieldMessage = fieldMessage});
        else
            existingFieldError.FieldMessage = $"{existingFieldError.FieldMessage}. {fieldMessage}";

        IsError = true;
    }

    public void AddEmptyFieldError(string fieldName, string contextInfo = null)
    {
        AddFieldError(fieldName, $"No value provided for field. Context info: {contextInfo}");
    }
}

public class ValidationResult : ValidationResult<object>
{

}

2)不管操作是否成功，服务层都会返回ValidationResults。例句:

    public ValidationResult DoSomeAction(RequestFilters filters)
    {
        var ret = new ValidationResult();

        if (filters.SomeProp1 == null) ret.AddEmptyFieldError(nameof(filters.SomeProp1));
        if (filters.SomeOtherProp2 == null) ret.AddFieldError(nameof(filters.SomeOtherProp2 ), $"Failed to parse {filters.SomeOtherProp2} into integer list");

        if (filters.MinProp == null) ret.AddEmptyFieldError(nameof(filters.MinProp));
        if (filters.MaxProp == null) ret.AddEmptyFieldError(nameof(filters.MaxProp));


        // validation affecting multiple input parameters
        if (filters.MinProp > filters.MaxProp)
        {
            ret.AddFieldError(nameof(filters.MinProp, "Min prop cannot be greater than max prop"));
            ret.AddFieldError(nameof(filters.MaxProp, "Check"));
        }

        // also specify a global error message, if we have at least one error
        if (ret.IsError)
        {
            ret.Message = "Failed to perform DoSomeAction";
            return ret;
        }

        ret.Message = "Successfully performed DoSomeAction";
        return ret;
    }

3) API Controller将根据服务功能结果构建响应

一种选择是将几乎所有参数都设置为可选，并执行自定义验证，从而返回更有意义的响应。另外，我注意不允许任何异常超出服务边界。

    [Route("DoSomeAction")]
    [HttpPost]
    public HttpResponseMessage DoSomeAction(int? someProp1 = null, string someOtherProp2 = null, int? minProp = null, int? maxProp = null)
    {
        try
        {
            var filters = new RequestFilters 
            {
                SomeProp1 = someProp1 ,
                SomeOtherProp2 = someOtherProp2.TrySplitIntegerList() ,
                MinProp = minProp, 
                MaxProp = maxProp
            };

            var result = theService.DoSomeAction(filters);
            return !result.IsError ? Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, result) : Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.BadRequest, result);
        }
        catch (Exception exc)
        {
            Logger.Log(LogLevel.Error, exc, "Failed to DoSomeAction");
            return Request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError, new HttpError("Failed to DoSomeAction - internal error"));
        }
    }

只是更新一下ASP的当前状态。净之前。接口现在被称为IActionResult，实现没有太大变化:

[JsonObject(IsReference = true)]
public class DuplicateEntityException : IActionResult
{        
    public DuplicateEntityException(object duplicateEntity, object entityId)
    {
        this.EntityType = duplicateEntity.GetType().Name;
        this.EntityId = entityId;
    }

    /// <summary>
    ///     Id of the duplicate (new) entity
    /// </summary>
    public object EntityId { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    ///     Type of the duplicate (new) entity
    /// </summary>
    public string EntityType { get; set; }

    public Task ExecuteResultAsync(ActionContext context)
    {
        var message = new StringContent($"{this.EntityType ?? "Entity"} with id {this.EntityId ?? "(no id)"} already exist in the database");

        var response = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.Ambiguous) { Content = message };

        return Task.FromResult(response);
    }

    #endregion
}

欢迎来到2022年!现在我们在. net中有了其他的答案(因为ASP。NET Core 2.1)。请看这篇文章:在ASP中使用ProblemDetails类。NET Core Web API，作者在其中解释了以下最佳实践:

如何实现标准IETF RFC 7807，它将“问题细节”定义为一种在HTTP响应中携带机器可读的错误细节的方法，以避免为HTTP api定义新的错误响应格式。 模型验证如何使用ProblemDetails类来填充验证错误列表——这是对一般规则问题的直接回答，即在出现第一个错误后是否中断处理。

作为一个挑逗，如果我们使用ProductDetails和多个错误，JSON输出是这样的: