How to view content delivered from HttpResponseMessage (ASP.NET MVC Web Api) - asp.net-mvc

Question

I create json object and assign it to a StringContent of my HttpResponseMessage instance. Everything works fine when I call the Web API action, the result is 200, the content-length is how it should be, but how to find the content itself, where is the json? What I get in the browser and in Postman is this:
StatusCode: 200, ReasonPhrase: 'OK', Version: 1.1, Content: System.Net.Http.StringContent, Headers:
{
Content-Type: application/json
}
Why is this instead of my json string?
Content: System.Net.Http.StringContent

Answer 1

If what you are trying to achieve is to return a valid JSON response, then this is the way to go in Asp.Net MVC
public ActionResult HttpResponseMessage()
{
var oJSON = new { url = "path_to_file", hash = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" };
return Json(oJSON, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
Response headers as seen by Postman:
Cache-Control →private
Content-Length →49
Content-Type →application/json; charset=utf-8
Date →Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:31:44 GMT
Server →Microsoft-IIS/10.0
X-AspNet-Version →4.0.30319
X-AspNetMvc-Version →5.2
X-Powered-By →ASP.NET
X-SourceFiles →=?UTF-8?B?RTpcRXhhbSA3MCA0ODdcNzA0ODdcTVZDUm91dGVzXEhvbWVcSHR0cFJlc3BvbnNlTWVzc2FnZQ==?=
Response body as seen by Postman
{"url":"path_to_file","hash":"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"}