Calling a Web api from another Web api

Question

Is it somehow possible to make a Web api that calls another web api?

I am using the code below to access a web api from my web api, but it never return from the call. If I use the code from a console app, it is working fine.

public void DoStuff(){
    RunAsync().Wait();
}

public static async Task RunAsync(){
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
    client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost:53452/");
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));

    // HTTP GET
    HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("umbraco/api/Member/Get?username=test");
    if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
    {
        string user = await response.Content.ReadAsAsync<string>();
    }

}

Answer 1

I also went through the same problem, after much research I discovered that the await operator does not stop the work if the HttpClient returns error 500.
To work around the problem I used Task.Wait().

var response = client.GetAsync ("umbraco/api/Member/Get?username=test");
response.Wait ();

I hope this helps others.