Error: FireSharp's SetAsync and GetAsync not marked as async?

Question

I'm a beginner and recently tried to get started with FireSharp, and even got some data transfered:

This was my first Code to send data to the server:

public static class Client
{
   static IFirebaseClient client;

   static IFirebaseConfig config = new FirebaseConfig
   {
       AuthSecret = "MyAuthSecret",
       BasePath = "MyBasePath"
   };


   public static bool Start()
   {
       client = new FirebaseClient(config);

       if (client != null) 
       {
           return true; 
       } else {
           return false;
       }
   }

   public static void Send(Data data)
   {
       SetResponse response = await client.SetAsync("Testpath", data);
   }

But at the line SetResponse response = await client.SetAsync("Testpath", data);, I got the following error message:
The 'await' operator can only be used within an async method. Consider marking this method with the 'async' modifier and changing its return type to 'Task'.

I was still able to send data, simply by reducing the line to client.SetAsync("Testpath", data);. I knew it wasn't ideal, since I didn't got a response that way, but it worked!

The real problem was, that I didn't managed to come up with such a workaround for FirebaseResponse response = await client.GetAsync("Testpath");. That way I'm currently unable to get data from the server.

Does anyone have any idea on what the problem could be or how to fix it?

My ideas were:

• Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I put all this in a static class.
• Maybe the FireSharp Libary is broken in the current version.
• Maybe I could manually mark the methods as async, since thats whats the error-message saying.
• Or I could manually change it's return type, as the error-message says.
• Maybe I understood the whole "await" and "async" thing wrong.
• The manual says, "FirebaseClient uses Newtonsoft.Json by default. Maybe that could have anything to do with it.

But I havent tried any of them, since I don't know how. I have no idea whether it is possible and would make sence to change the code of the libary, or whatever the error-message means with "change the return type". I watched a tutorial and looked at the manual, but couldn't find any information about this problem.

I would really appreciate any help since I wasn't able to find any information about this problem on the Internet so far.

Answer 1

Your Send method must be async

public static async Task Send(Data data)