FileWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult) Method

Definition

Ends an asynchronous request for a file system resource.

C#
public override System.Net.WebResponse EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult);

Parameters

asyncResult
IAsyncResult

An IAsyncResult that references the pending request for a response.

Returns

A WebResponse that contains the response from the file system resource.

Exceptions

asyncResult is null.

Examples

The following code example uses the EndGetResponse method to end an asynchronous request for a file system resource.

C#

public class RequestDeclare
{
public FileWebRequest myFileWebRequest;	

    public RequestDeclare()
    {
        myFileWebRequest = null;
    }
}

class FileWebRequest_resbeginend
{

    public static ManualResetEvent allDone = new ManualResetEvent(false);

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        
        if (args.Length < 1)
        {
           Console.WriteLine("\nPlease enter the file name as command line parameter:");
           Console.WriteLine("Usage:FileWebRequest_resbeginend <systemname>/<sharedfoldername>/<filename>\nExample:FileWebRequest_resbeginend shafeeque/shaf/hello.txt");
        }
        else
        {
          try
        {

              // Place a 'Webrequest'.
              WebRequest myWebRequest= WebRequest.Create("file://"+args[0]);
              // Create an instance of the 'RequestDeclare' and associating the 'myWebRequest' to it.		
              RequestDeclare myRequestDeclare = new RequestDeclare();
              myRequestDeclare.myFileWebRequest = (FileWebRequest)myWebRequest;

              // Begin the Asynchronous request for getting file content using 'BeginGetResponse()' method.	
              IAsyncResult asyncResult =(IAsyncResult) myRequestDeclare.myFileWebRequest.BeginGetResponse(new AsyncCallback(RespCallback),myRequestDeclare);			
              allDone.WaitOne();
           }
        catch(ArgumentNullException e)
           {
              Console.WriteLine("ArgumentNullException is :"+e.Message);
           }
           catch(UriFormatException e)
          {
              Console.WriteLine("UriFormatException is :"+e.Message);
          }
       }
    }

  private static void RespCallback(IAsyncResult ar)
  {	

           // State of request is asynchronous.
            RequestDeclare requestDeclare=(RequestDeclare) ar.AsyncState;
                
            FileWebRequest  myFileWebRequest=requestDeclare.myFileWebRequest;
        
           // End the Asynchronus request by calling the 'EndGetResponse()' method.
            
            FileWebResponse myFileWebResponse = (FileWebResponse) myFileWebRequest.EndGetResponse(ar);

            // Reade the response into Stream.
            StreamReader streamReader= new StreamReader(myFileWebResponse.GetResponseStream());

            Char[] readBuffer = new Char[256];
                
            int count = streamReader.Read( readBuffer, 0, 256 );

            Console.WriteLine("The contents of the file are :\n");
    
            while (count > 0)
            {
                String str = new String(readBuffer, 0, count);
                Console.WriteLine(str);
                count = streamReader.Read(readBuffer, 0, 256);
            }
            
            streamReader.Close();
            // Release the response object resources.
            myFileWebResponse.Close();
            allDone.Set();
            Console.WriteLine("File reading is over.");	
    }
}

Remarks

The EndGetResponse method completes an asynchronous request for a file system resource that was started with the BeginGetResponse method.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 2.0, 2.1

See also