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Why am I receiving WebAPI response status as 204 (No Content)

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Posted on by Venkata Ravi Babu V... 80

We have created a custom action(OOB with two input and one output parameter) and called the same from JavaScript through WebAPI.If the call is synchronous the response status is 200 and able to get output parameter as the response text.

But if the call is asynchronous then the behaviour is weird sometimes it gives response status as 204 and sometimes 200.

Could someone let us know why we are receiving 204(No Content) status as we are expecting output parameter as response text always.

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    Red Hodgerson Profile Picture
    Red Hodgerson on at
    RE: Why am I receiving WebAPI response status as 204 (No Content)

    This is a known issue for v8.2 on-premise. Upgrading to v9 on-premise will resolve the issue. To work-around it in v8.2 you can recycle the app pool.

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    Yusi Profile Picture
    Yusi 100 on at
    RE: Why am I receiving WebAPI response status as 204 (No Content)

    I faced the same issue and restarting the app server alone solved my problem. Now getting 200 instead of 204 with a valid returned content value

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    Community Member on at
    RE: Why am I receiving WebAPI response status as 204 (No Content)

    I had the same error.

    I deleted the plugin registration and deleted the process. Then I created it again, but with the same result.

    My solution was to create the process with a new name. Registered the plugin and everything worked again.

    I think that there is something like a caching on the server, that only recreating is not enough. Maybe deleting the process, restart the system (iisreset) and recreation my help.

  • Peter Widmer Profile Picture
    Peter Widmer 40 on at
    RE: Why am I receiving WebAPI response status as 204 (No Content)

    There seems to be a bug (which Laszlo Penzes pointed out already).

    The workaround is like this: Create a new action and get all parameters (input and output) right before saving the action. After doing so I correctly received the content (200)

  • LaszloPenzes Profile Picture
    LaszloPenzes on at
    RE: Why am I receiving WebAPI response status as 204 (No Content)

    Same here.

    Created a custom action with one output parameter. Assigned a value to that param and activated -> worked ok.

    Made a minor change to the action (amended the value assigned to output param) -> stopped working and the only thing it returns is 204 No Content.

    Some folks wrote that there's a problem with WF editor that makes the XAML file to have invalid content. I exported both versions of the solution and compared the files, but no difference.

  • Fede Jousset Profile Picture
    Fede Jousset 30 on at
    RE: Why am I receiving WebAPI response status as 204 (No Content)

    Hi there,

    Were you able to find the root cause or fix this issue? I'm having the same problem calling a Custom Action using the WebAPI endpoint, but in our scenario it's a synchronous execution.

    Thank you!

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