Can I call Context.SetError twice to provide 2 values back?

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As a follow up question to this one:

OWIN Web api 2 adding additional logic to Bearer authorization

Can I call context.SetError twice like the below, to give 2 values back to the requestor? If not, what's the right way to do that?

        if (user == null)
        {
            context.SetError("invalid_grant", "The user name or password is incorrect.");
            context.SetError("error_code", 69);

            return;
        }

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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You're right, you cannot call it twice. I found this answer to a similar issue to be very useful in my case: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32934494/6033048

I needed to add an error_code besides error and error_description so I extended OAuthGrantResourceOwnerCredentialsContext like in user2325333's example.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Mar 08 '16 at 08:01

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 19 '15 at 11:25

Ok, so for those people visiting via future search engines:

NO. You cannot call it twice to provide 2 values back. I eventually just serialized (To Json) what I wanted to say and stuffed it into the error_description field. A developer with half a brain would be able to interpret it back into an object and use it appropriately.

Can I call Context.SetError twice to provide 2 values back?

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