How to pull the finalUri property from an async image lookup result?

Question

In windows phone 7 I'm doing a simple async lookup to find an image by uri and set the returned binary as the source for an image control.

public object SetImageFromUri(string uri)
{
    var wc = new WebClient();
    wc.OpenReadCompleted += new OpenReadCompletedEventHandler(wc_OpenReadCompleted);
    wc.OpenReadAsync(new Uri(uri), wc);

    return null;
}

void wc_OpenReadCompleted(object sender, OpenReadCompletedEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Error == null && !e.Cancelled)
    {
            var image = new BitmapImage();
            image.SetSource(e.Result);

            //e.Result has a property in the memory stream labeled finalUri
            //someImageControl.Source = image;

    }
}

My question is- how can I pull out the final uri property from the e.Result so I can see what image control it's associated with

Thank you in advance

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '11 at 01:25

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Instead of passing the WebClient through as the second parameter, pass the Uri (or some other piece of usefule state information)

wc.OpenReadAsync(new Uri(uri), uri);

You can then access this in your callback

var uri = (string)e.UserState;

answered Aug 04 '11 at 01:25

Chris Sainty

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

Due to specific restrictions implemented in the Reflection mechanism, you cannot access internal content from sandboxed code. Ultimately, you would want to use something like this:

FieldInfo f = e.Result.GetType().GetField("_finalUri", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly | BindingFlags.Instance);
Uri n = (Uri)f.GetValue(e.Result);

However, this will cause a FieldAccessException. If you are not using a redirect URI, then you can simply reuse the parameter that is initially passed to your method. If not, you need to check HttpWebRequest and follow the idea I outlined a couple of days ago.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 04 '11 at 10:37

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You could also just bind directly to the Image, and use the LowProfileImageLoader, to avoid it blocking the UI thread during the load. (Remember to set a FallBack image)

answered Aug 04 '11 at 10:37

Claus Jørgensen

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Excellent -but how can I set a fall back image using this library? – Toran Billups Aug 14 '11 at 21:08
Set it as a default value for the property you're binding. (It throws a exception if you bind to a null value) – Claus Jørgensen Aug 15 '11 at 06:41

How to pull the finalUri property from an async image lookup result?

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