使用Web API 2中引入的更现代的IHttpActionResult对@Aliostads进行了更新。

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-api/overview/getting-started-with-aspnet-web-api/action-results#ihttpactionresult

public class TryController : ApiController
{
    public IHttpActionResult GetUser(int userId, DateTime lastModifiedAtClient)
    {
        var user = new DataEntities().Users.First(p => p.Id == userId);
        if (user.LastModified <= lastModifiedAtClient)
        {
            return StatusCode(HttpStatusCode.NotModified);
            // If you would like to return a Http Status code with any object instead:
            // return Content(HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError, "My Message");
        }
        return Ok(user);
    }
}

我讨厌撞旧文章，但这是在谷歌搜索的第一个结果，我有一个问题(即使有你们的支持)。所以这里什么都没有……

希望我的解决方案能帮助那些同样感到困惑的人。

namespace MyApplication.WebAPI.Controllers
{
    public class BaseController : ApiController
    {
        public T SendResponse<T>(T response, HttpStatusCode statusCode = HttpStatusCode.OK)
        {
            if (statusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK)
            {
                // leave it up to microsoft to make this way more complicated than it needs to be
                // seriously i used to be able to just set the status and leave it at that but nooo... now 
                // i need to throw an exception 
                var badResponse =
                    new HttpResponseMessage(statusCode)
                    {
                        Content =  new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(response), Encoding.UTF8, "application/json")
                    };

                throw new HttpResponseException(badResponse);
            }
            return response;
        }
    }
}

然后从BaseController继承

[RoutePrefix("api/devicemanagement")]
public class DeviceManagementController : BaseController
{...

然后使用它

[HttpGet]
[Route("device/search/{property}/{value}")]
public SearchForDeviceResponse SearchForDevice(string property, string value)
{
    //todo: limit search property here?
    var response = new SearchForDeviceResponse();

    var results = _deviceManagementBusiness.SearchForDevices(property, value);

    response.Success = true;
    response.Data = results;

    var statusCode = results == null || !results.Any() ? HttpStatusCode.NoContent : HttpStatusCode.OK;

    return SendResponse(response, statusCode);
}

在MVC 5中，事情变得更简单了:

return new StatusCodeResult(HttpStatusCode.NotModified, this);

.net core 2.2返回304状态码。这是使用ApiController。

    [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult<YOUROBJECT> Get()
    {
        return StatusCode(304);
    }

您还可以选择返回带有响应的对象

    [HttpGet]
    public ActionResult<YOUROBJECT> Get()
    {
        return StatusCode(304, YOUROBJECT); 
    }

更改GetXxx API方法以返回HttpResponseMessage，然后返回完整响应的类型化版本和NotModified响应的非类型化版本。

    public HttpResponseMessage GetComputingDevice(string id)
    {
        ComputingDevice computingDevice =
            _db.Devices.OfType<ComputingDevice>()
                .SingleOrDefault(c => c.AssetId == id);

        if (computingDevice == null)
        {
            return this.Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound);
        }

        if (this.Request.ClientHasStaleData(computingDevice.ModifiedDate))
        {
            return this.Request.CreateResponse<ComputingDevice>(
                HttpStatusCode.OK, computingDevice);
        }
        else
        {
            return this.Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotModified);
        }
    }

* ClientHasStale数据是我的扩展检查ETag和IfModifiedSince头。

MVC框架仍然应该序列化并返回您的对象。

NOTE

我认为通用版本将在未来的Web API版本中被删除。

如果你需要返回一个IHttpActionResult并且想要返回错误代码和消息，使用:

return ResponseMessage(Request.CreateErrorResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotModified, "Error message here"));