Inconsitency in IActionResult return types

[bradford-dillon]

I was writing unit tests on some controller logic and wanted to simply write some tests to check the status code returned in various situations. What I found was that some return types inherit from StatusCodeResult providing access to the status codes while others inherit from ActionResult that does not have a set status code.

This is easy enough to get around in unit tests as I can just test for Assert.IsType instead of directly checking the status code, but if I am testing for return codes elsewhere I would like to test for them everywhere for the sake of consistency.

Is there some technical limitation that prevents things like OkObjectResult and Forbid from inheriting from StatusCodeResult or is it that way because of normal software development "stuff"?