I need to make the following code async and awaitable.
I need to get a lot of data from the web server, and then this data will be used to populate the xaml page in my application.
So, I need the DefLogin() method to be awaitable.
Is it possible?
public void DefLogin()
{
postData = "My Data To Post";
var url = new Uri("Url To Post to", UriKind.Absolute);
webRequest = WebRequest.Create(url);
webRequest.Method = "POST";
webRequest.ContentType = "text/xml";
webRequest.BeginGetRequestStream(new AsyncCallback(GetRequestStreamCallback), webRequest);
}
public void GetRequestStreamCallback(IAsyncResult asynchronousResult)
{
webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)asynchronousResult.AsyncState;
Stream postStream = webRequest.EndGetRequestStream(asynchronousResult);
byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
postStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
postStream.Close();
Debug.WriteLine("Start BEGINGetResponse");
webRequest.BeginGetResponse(new AsyncCallback(GetResponseCallback), webRequest);
}
public void GetResponseCallback(IAsyncResult asynchronousResult)
{
try
{
HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)asynchronousResult.AsyncState;
HttpWebResponse response;
response = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.EndGetResponse(asynchronousResult);
Stream streamResponse = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(streamResponse);
string Response = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
streamResponse.Close();
streamReader.Close();
response.Close();
if (Response == "")
{
//show some error msg to the user
Debug.WriteLine("ERROR");
}
else
{
//Your response will be available in "Response"
Debug.WriteLine(Response);
}
}
catch (WebException)
{
//error
}
}
I saw this question on StackOverflow: Converting ordinary Http Post web request with Async and Await, but I could not understand the answer properly.
Please can anyone help? I would be really grateful!
You can use TaskFactory.FromAsync
to convert APM to TAP, making a lot of tiny extension methods like this:
public static Task<Stream> GetRequestStreamAsync(this WebRequest request)
{
return TaskFactory.FromAsync(request.BeginGetRequestStream, request.EndGetRequestStream, null);
}
and do the same for WebRequest.GetResponse
and (if necessary) Stream.Write
, Stream.Flush
, etc.
Then you can write your actual logic using async
and await
without any callbacks:
public async Task DefLoginAsync()
{
postData = "My Data To Post";
var url = new Uri("Url To Post to", UriKind.Absolute);
webRequest = WebRequest.Create(url);
webRequest.Method = "POST";
webRequest.ContentType = "text/xml";
using (Stream postStream = await webRequest.GetRequestStreamAsync())
{
byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
await postStream.WriteAsync(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
await postStream.FlushAsync();
}
try
{
string Response;
using (var response = (HttpWebResponse)await webRequest.GetResponseAsync());
using (Stream streamResponse = response.GetResponseStream())
using (StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(streamResponse))
{
Response = await streamReader.ReadToEndAsync();
}
if (Response == "")
{
//show some error msg to the user
Debug.WriteLine("ERROR");
}
else
{
//Your response will be available in "Response"
Debug.WriteLine(Response);
}
}
catch (WebException)
{
//error
}
}