UPDATE 2. I found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10547895/how-can-i-tell-when-httpclient-has-timed-out but not yet sure how to incorporate into my code.

It is very late here, so I'll try to work on that problem tomorrow.

UPDATE. Here is my current solution - but I now need to somehow implement number of tries and correctly work with the timeout errors:

async Task<TicketUsageResponse> GetResponse(CityPassJSON json)
        {
            TicketUsageResponse ticketUsageResponse = null;
            using (HttpResponseMessage response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync("/integrationapi//Attraction/Tickets/Validate", json))
            {
                if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
                {
                    using (HttpContent content = response.Content)
                    {
                        ticketUsageResponse = await content.ReadAsAsync<TicketUsageResponse>();
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    Int32 statusCode = (Int32) response.StatusCode;
                    throw new HttpException(statusCode, response.ReasonPhrase);
                } 
                
            }
            return ticketUsageResponse;
        }

and here is the main function which is going to be called from VFP somehow:

Int32 statusCode = 1;
            try
            {
                SetRequestHeaders(tcHost, tcUserName, tcPassword, tnTimeout);

                var json = new CityPassJSON();
                var ticket = new TicketUsageRequest(tcBarcode, tcUsageDate, tcUserName);

                json.TicketUsageRequests.Add(ticket);

                Task<TicketUsageResponse> task = GetResponse(json);
                task.Wait();

                TicketUsageResponse result = task.Result;

                tcMessage = result.ReturnData[0].Message;
                tcReturnValueText = result.ReturnValueText;
                tnReturnValue = result.ReturnValue;
                tcProductCode = result.ReturnData[0].ExternalProductCode;
            }

            catch (Exception e)
            {
                tcReturnValueText = e.Message;
                statusCode = 0;
            }

            return statusCode;

So, in the body of that function I need to somehow implement my tries. This is part which is not clear to me as that timeout is currently going to go to the exception block, I think.

Also, how should I simulate the timeout response?

Thanks again.

>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I've defined the following method:
>>
>>

>>static async Task<HttpResponseMessage> GetResponse(TicketUsageRequests ticket, string apiUrl)
>>        {
>>            HttpResponseMessage response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync(apiUrl, ticket);
>>            //response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
>>            
>>            return response;
>>        }

>>
>>My question is - how can I get its result in the main method code and synchronously?
>>
>>My current method is:
>>
>>

>>try
>>            {               
>>                SetRequestHeaders(tcHost, tcUserName, tcPassword, tnTimeout, tnRetries);
>>
>>                TicketUsageRequests ticket = new TicketUsageRequests();
>>                ticket.TicketBarcode = tcBarcode;
>>                ticket.TicketUsageDate = tcUsageDate;
>>                ticket.UserID = tcUserName;
>>
>>               ... here I want to get the result of the response and parse it
>>
>>   ...
>>

>>
>>I found this
>>
>>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5095183/how-would-i-run-an-async-taskt-method-synchronously
>>
>>and trying to figure out how to apply pixel's solution.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>Not 100% sure but just try:

HttpResponseMessage response = client.PostAsJsonAsync(apiUrl, ticket).Result;

I'm now back to the next hurdle I don't know how to solve :(

The code from https://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/advanced/calling-a-web-api-from-a-net-client shows how to get product back (in UpdateProduct method).

In my case I'm trying to use synchronous methods (because my main function is going to pass a few parameters by reference).

So, I got this:

if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
                {
                    TicketUsageResponse ticketUsageResponse = response.Content.ReadAsAsync<TicketUsageResponse>(); // This line does not compile

                  }

In other words, I need to get the object back. If I add await when I need to change the whole method.

Thanks in advance.
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