Execution stops abruptly during handshake

[kinetiq]

Hi, and thanks for the great work! I'm trying to get this working in a console app, but I'm having a problem. Execution stops abruptly in RequestExecutor.Execute, on this line:

IRestResponse response = await client.ExecutePostTaskAsync(request);

There's no exception that I can detect... I think the await is just never returning - but it doesn't hang, it exits.

I know this is a restsharp call. The key is correct (works in Margibot). Any idea what to try here?

[Workshop2]

Hey @kinetiq
Do you have a code example anywhere I could try? Are you running through a proxy?

Thanks

[kinetiq]

No proxy, just running this in a simple setup at home.

Code is very simple:

        var connector = new SlackConnector.SlackConnector();
        Connection = await connector.Connect(slackKey);
        Connection.OnMessageReceived += MessageReceived;
        Connection.OnDisconnect += OnDisconnect;

Also! If I go into your code and change this line to synchronous, everything works:

        IRestResponse response = client.ExecuteAsPost(request, "post");

...The handshake succeeds, and I end up getting events and so on! Any idea what this might be?

[Workshop2]

Is your console app method async? I have seen these kind of issues before when trying to await something when not in an async context.

Could you do something like:

        var connector = new SlackConnector.SlackConnector();
        Connection = connector.Connect(slackKey).Result;
        Connection.OnMessageReceived += MessageReceived;
        Connection.OnDisconnect += OnDisconnect;

[kinetiq]

You are right, I wasn't in an async context! I was doing this:

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        MainAsync(args);        
    }

    static async void MainAsync(string[] args)
    {
        var manager = new ConnectionManager();
        await manager.Connect();

        Console.ReadLine();
    }

But I needed to do this:

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        MainAsync(args).Wait();
    }

    static async Task MainAsync(string[] args)
    {
        var manager = new ConnectionManager();
        await manager.Connect();

        Console.ReadLine();
    }

Dumb mistake, clearly need to do more async work.

I bet people run into this a lot when they're getting started. I actually bounced off of this problem once before, months ago, and I'm just now playing with it again.

Anyway! Thanks for the help.

[Workshop2]

No problem, glad to have helped