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Aaron
Aaron

Reputation: 1052

Flurl.http PostJsonAsync disappears

I have a class that is posting to an API which is working in my unit tests but not my MVC controller.

In the tester the following line works just fine but when call it in my MVC application I cannot step beyond the following line.

public async Task<string> post( object values )       
    {
        using (var client = new HttpClient())
        {
            try
            {
                var responseString = await address.PostJsonAsync(values).ReceiveString();
                return responseString; //Never reaches this line while in MVC.

            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                //Console.Error.WriteLine(e.Message);
                return "";
            }
        }
    }

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2979

Answers (2)

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 1139

Be use to use Flurl.Http package, not only Flurl package

Get it on NuGet: PM> Install-Package Flurl.Http

Or get just the stand-alone URL builder without the HTTP features: PM> Install-Package Flurl

https://github.com/tmenier/Flurl

Upvotes: 1

Aaron
Aaron

Reputation: 1052

Another coworker help me find the problem. It had to do with async/await/sync. Changing to return the Result right from the call fixed the problem.

    public string post( object values ) 
    {
        try
        {
            var responseString = address.PostJsonAsync(values).ReceiveString().Result;
            return responseString;
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            //Console.Error.WriteLine(e.Message);
            return "";
        }            
    }

Upvotes: 3

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