public async Task<string> makeRequest() //1. Changed to async and return type
{
if (InternetAvailable())
{
string strResponseValue = string.Empty;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(endPoint);
request.Method = httpMethod.ToString();
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.Accept = "application/json";
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", token);
request.UserAgent = @"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.106 Safari/537.36";
if ((request.Method == "POST" || request.Method == "PUT") && postJSON != string.Empty)
{
using (StreamWriter swJSONPayload = new StreamWriter(await request.GetRequestStreamAsync())) //2. changed to asynchronous call
{
swJSONPayload.Write(postJSON);
swJSONPayload.Close();
}
}
HttpWebResponse response = null;
try
{
response =await (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponseAsync(); //3. changed to asynchronous call
// Process the response stream... (could be JSON, XML or HTML etc...)
using (Stream responseStream =await response.GetResponseStreamAsync()) //4. changed to asynchronous call
{
if (responseStream != null)
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream))
{
strResponseValue = reader.ReadToEnd();
}// End of StreamReader
}
}// End of using ResponseStream
}
catch (WebException ex)
{
if (ex.Status == WebExceptionStatus.ProtocolError && ex.Response != null)
{
var resp = (HttpWebResponse)ex.Response;
if (resp.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized)
{
MessageBox.Show("Unauthorized", "Unauthorized", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Stop);
Environment.Exit(1);
}
}
}
return strResponseValue;
}
else
{
return null;
}
}