Wait for async Task without wrapping exceptions in AggregateException
I am going to use these in a command line application. So I need to call them synchronously a lot.
No, you don't. You can use async
-await
in a console application, you just need to make an async to sync transition at the very top. And you can do that by using Wait()
:
public static void Main()
{
MainAsync().Wait();
}
public static async Task MainAsync()
{
var datastore = …;
await datastore.SaveAsync();
}
Usually, combining await
with Wait()
is a bad idea (it can cause deadlocks), but it's the right solution here.
Note that if SaveAsync()
throws an exception and you don't catch it, it will be rethrown as AggregateException
from the Wait()
. But you can catch it as the original exception in MainAsync()
(because it doesn't use Wait()
).
If you really wanted to get the first exception thrown directly, you could do something similar to what await
does: task.GetAwaiter().GetResult()
. Note that if the Task
contains more than one exception, you will get only the first one (but the same applies to await
).
Since C# 7.1, you can make your Main
method async
and the compiler will write the transition code for you:
public static async Task Main()
{
var datastore = …;
await datastore.SaveAsync();
}
When I use a method returning
Task<TResult>
,task.Result
throwsAggregateException
even though there are no continuation tasks set. Why is this happening?
This has nothing to do with continuations. A single Task
can represent multiple operations, and each of them can throw an exception. Because of that, Task
methods always throw the exceptions wrapped in an AggregateException
.
I also have tried
task.RunSynchronously()
That doesn't make any sense. RunSynchronously()
can only be used on Task
s that were created using the Task
constructor. That's not the case here, so you can't use it. Task
s returned from async methods are always already started.
You can create a dummy Main
public static void Main()
{
MainAsync().Wait();
}
public static async Task MainAsync()
{
try {
var result = await dataStore.Save(data);
} catch(ExceptionYouWantToCatch e) {
// handle it
}
}
Also, see this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9212343/1529246