Hi I am new to programming, but currently I encounter xamarin forms cannot implicitly convert type 'system.threading.tasks.task> to system.collections.generic.List as I am trying to use global variable upon launching the app to optimized the app when I am trying to set the List of menu items into the global variable which will be access by the other pages, it gave me that error. I have no idea how to solve that issue so someone please help me
Here is my App.cs
private static int globalVariable = 1;
public static List<MenuItemModel> foodList = new List<MenuItemModel>();
private static List<MenuItemModel> beverageList = new List<MenuItemModel>();
public static int GlobalVariable
{
get { return globalVariable; }
set { globalVariable = value; }
}
public static List<MenuItemModel> FoodList
{
get { return foodList; }
set { foodList = value; }
}
public static List<MenuItemModel> BeverageList
{
get { return beverageList; }
set { beverageList = value; }
}
public App()
{
GlobalVariable = 10;
BeverageList = getBeverageList();
FoodList = getFoodList();
}
public async Task<List<MenuItemModel>> getBeverageList()
{
ConstantCS constant = new ConstantCS();
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://172.20.129.44/");
// Add an Accept header for JSON format.
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
HttpResponseMessage response = new HttpResponseMessage();
response = client.GetAsync("WebServices/menu.svc/GetBeveragesJSON").Result;
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
string jsonString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
dynamic dynamicObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(jsonString);
int itemId_;
string itemName_;
string itemCategory_;
string itemSubCategory_;
string itemDescription_;
string itemImage_;
int itemQuantity_;
double itemPrice_;
string itemStatus_;
string itemAddOn_;
for (int i = 0; i < dynamicObject.d.Count; i++)
{
itemId_ = dynamicObject.d[i]["itemID"];
itemName_ = dynamicObject.d[i]["itemName"].ToString();
itemCategory_ = dynamicObject.d[i]["itemCategory"].ToString();
itemSubCategory_ = dynamicObject.d[i]["itemSubCategory"].ToString();
itemDescription_ = dynamicObject.d[i]["itemDesc"].ToString();
itemImage_ = dynamicObject.d[i]["itemImg"].ToString();
itemQuantity_ = int.Parse(dynamicObject.d[i]["itemQty"].ToString());
itemPrice_ = double.Parse(dynamicObject.d[i]["itemPrice"].ToString());
itemStatus_ = dynamicObject.d[i]["itemStatus"].ToString();
itemAddOn_ = dynamicObject.d[i]["itemRequest"].ToString();
string itemURL_ = constant.PhotoBaseURL + itemImage_;
beverageList.Add(new MenuItemModel(itemId_, itemName_, itemCategory_, itemSubCategory_, itemDescription_, itemURL_, itemQuantity_, itemPrice_, itemStatus_, itemAddOn_));
}
}
else
{
//Debug.WriteLine("It entered else not if");
}
return beverageList;
}
You're not doing anything
async
ingetBeverageList()
, so you can safely change its signature toAfter that, you should stop for a few days, and learn about async/await and TPL...