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SparkyRobinson
SparkyRobinson

Reputation: 1522

Hello World Cloud Function with Parse and Xamarin .NET

I'm trying to follow the tutorials available on Parse.com for calling CloudFunctions from the .Net API.

Apparently, this should work: 

var result = await ParseCloud.CallFunctionAsync<IDictionary<string, object>>("hello", new Dictionary<string, object>());`

When calling in Xamarin:

button.Click += async (sender, e) => {
    var result = await ParseCloud.CallFunctionAsync<IDictionary<string, object>> ("hello", new Dictionary<string, object>());
};

It just locks up my mobile app. When calling:

button.Click += async (sender, e) => {
    var obj = new ParseObject("Note");
    obj ["text"] = "Hello, world!  This is a Xamarin app using Parse!";
    obj ["tags"] = new List<string> {"welcome", "xamarin", "parse"};
    await obj.SaveAsync ();
};

It successfully saves an object to Parse.

When calling the 'hello' Cloud Function using curl, it works perfectly and returns 'Hello World'

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong here. Any suggestions?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 990

Answers (1)

SparkyRobinson
SparkyRobinson

Reputation: 1522

var result = await ParseCloud.CallFunctionAsync<string>("hello", new Dictionary<string, object>());
                Toast.MakeText(this,result.ToString(),ToastLength.Short).Show();

It was because the example on their website was wrong! It should be CallFunctionAsync<string>, not CallFunctionAsync<IDictionary<string, object>> as the type being returned is a string!

Arrrrhhhh. Hopefully this helps someone in the future.

EDIT: According to the developers at Parse, this should be fixed now / soon.

Upvotes: 3

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