When doing PostAsync why wait is not working?

Question

In a WebApi project I do a Post to convert some file to another:

var post = client.PostAsync(requestUri, content);
post.Wait();
var result = post.Result;

The result will contain the converted file so is important for me that current Thread to wait for the response before going further and use the result.

Well, it seems that it goes further and of course, the result is not ready yet... Do I do anything wrong here?

Answer 1

If you want to do synchronously, needless to call Wait(), just return Result directly, the Result property blocks the calling thread until the task finishes.

var response = client.PostAsync(requestUri, content).Result;
response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

In here, the content of result is still not ready yet, you need to continue to get the content:

var responseBody = response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync().Result;