Reminder: Setting up MVC4 Async Service in Controller

A quick reminder: I call a Json formatted file as a Service, that I placed in the App_Data folder. I then pull the contents needed using AsyncController.

Code Snippet

1. using System;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using System.Linq;
4. using System.Web;
5. using System.Web.Mvc;
6. using MadLibs.Models;
7. using System.Net.Http;
8. using Newtonsoft.Json;
9.  
10.  
11. namespace MadLibs.Controllers
12. {
13.     public class MadLibController : AsyncController
14.     {
15.         //
16.         // GET: /MadLib/
17.  
18.         public ActionResult StoryService()
19.         {
20.             return this.File("~/App_Data/StoriesDB.json", "application/json");
21.         }
22.  
23.         public void IndexAsync()
24.         {
25.             String uri = Url.Action("StoryService", "MadLib", null, Request.Url.Scheme);
26.             HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
27.             var response = client.GetStringAsync(uri).Result;
28.  
29.             AsyncManager.Parameters["stories"] = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Story>>(response);
30.         }
31.  
32.         public ActionResult IndexCompleted(List<Story> stories)
33.         {
34.             return View(stories);
35.         }
36.     }
37. }