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Asynchronous callback from web api controller

Anonymous User 2999 17 Dec 2013

I'm very new to Web API and I have an unusual pattern that I need to implement. In the Post method of my controller, it is to take an object which includes a CallbackURL. It will then immediately return an HTTP response to the caller. Afterwards, it will use a 3rd party, off-site API to perform some work with the object. Once that work is done, the controller is to post the results of that work to the CallbackURL.

However, I do not know how to implement this in Web API. Once I return the HTTP response, the controller's lifecycle is over, correct? If so, how do I perform the work I need to do after I return the response?

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1 Answers

Pravesh Singh 17 Dec 2013

Hi John,

If you only need to post results to a url and not to the client that initiated the call, you could possibly do something as easy as this:

public string MyAPIMethod(object input)
{
    Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
    {       
        //call third-party service and post result to callback url here.       
    });
    return "Success!";
}

The api call will return right away, and the Task you created will continue the processing in a different thread.

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