Using async/await and returning Task From ASP.NET Web API Methods

Question

I have a Portable Class Library (PCL) method like this:

public async Task GetLineStatuses()
{
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebReque         


        

Answer 1

as alternative:

public static async Task CallGET(string requestUri, string id = "")
{
    string responseData;
    using (var client = new HttpClient(new HttpClientHandler() { UseDefaultCredentials = true }))
    {
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));

        Uri.TryCreate(new Uri(baseURI), $"{requestUri}{(string.IsNullOrEmpty(id) ? string.Empty : $"/{id}")}", out Uri fullRequestUri);
        using (var response = await client.GetAsync(fullRequestUri))
        {
            responseData = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
        }
        return responseData;
    }
}

and call would be:

var getListUsersResult = Utils.CallGET($"/v1/users").Result;
var resultset= JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(getListUsersResult, typeof(List)) as List;
UserDTO r = users.Where(d => d.Name.ToLower().Contains("test")).FirstOrDefault();

and another call for one item:

var getUser = Utils.CallGET($"/v1/users", $"{USER_ID}").Result;
var getUserResponse = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(getUser, typeof(UserDTO)) as UserDTO;