How to make custom WCF error handler return JSON response with non-OK http code?

Actually, this works for me.

Here’s my ErrorMessage class:

    [DataContract]
    public class ErrorMessage
    {
        public ErrorMessage(Exception error)
        {
            Message = error.Message;
            StackTrace = error.StackTrace;
            Exception = error.GetType().Name;
        }

        [DataMember(Name="stacktrace")]
        public string StackTrace { get; set; }
        [DataMember(Name = "message")]
        public string Message { get; set; }
        [DataMember(Name = "exception-name")]
        public string Exception { get; set; }
    }

Combined with the last snippet above:

        fault = Message.CreateMessage(version, "", new ErrorMessage(error), new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(ErrorMessage)));
        var wbf = new WebBodyFormatMessageProperty(WebContentFormat.Json);
        fault.Properties.Add(WebBodyFormatMessageProperty.Name, wbf);

        var response = WebOperationContext.Current.OutgoingResponse;
        response.ContentType = "application/json";
        response.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError; 

This gives me proper errors as json. Thanks. 🙂