C# How to await a method that returns Task<dynamic>?

Question

I have a method that is parsing the results from a JSON object. The method returns a Task object but when I run the code, I am getting the following error:

'System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string,object>' does not contain a definition for 'GetAwaiter'

The object returned from the dynamic method is an array of objects of type System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary and System.Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair. Here is the code:

private static async Task<dynamic> GetReslutstAsync(string url)
    {
        WebRequest request;
        WebResponse response = null;
        try
        {
            request = WebRequest.Create(url);
            request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("username", "password", "company");
            //request.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
            response = await request.GetResponseAsync();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
        }

        using (var reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
        {
            try
            {
                JavaScriptSerializer js = new JavaScriptSerializer();
                var objects = js.Deserialize<dynamic>(reader.ReadToEnd());
                return objects;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
                return null;
            }
        }
    }

The exception occurs here:

private static async Task<dynamic> MakeRequest(string url)
    {
        try
        {
            return await GetReslutstAsync(url).Result;  //<---- This is where I get the error!
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
            return null;
        }
    }

I believe this has something to do with the fact that I am returning a dynamic type object. How can I get around this? I need to await this task inside the "MakeRequest" method so that it does not continue until the request is completed.

EDIT:

My "MakeRequest" method is in a loop like this:

while (true)
        {
            ClockTimer timer = new ClockTimer();
            timer.StartTimer(); //<---This does not stop untill 5 sec has passed
            MakeRequest("www.someurl.com"); //<--- This just skips into the next loop even if not complete.
        }

My issue is that MakeRequest is being run asynchronously so basically, it just skips over this and goes right into the next loop. I need "MakeRequest" to HALT until the request is finished. I have tried removing all async/await keywords but this just results in "Result was not calculated".

Answer 1

This is what you need:

return await GetReslutstAsync(url);

You are not awaiting on the dynamic, only the task that returns a dynamic.