Flurl Post Not Returning from Web Api - api

Question

I've got a Xamarin application using Flurl, with the following post to a Web Api
Xamarin App:
private async Task<LoginResponse> processLogin()
{
try
{
return await "http://192.168.0.12:60257/api/loginapi/Login".WithTimeout(10).PostJsonAsync(new { username = "fsdafsd", password = "gdfgdsf" }).ReceiveJson<LoginResponse>();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
return new LoginResponse { ResponseStatusCode = -1 };
}
}
Web Api:
public LoginResponse Login([FromBody]LoginRequest loginRequest)
{
var result = new LoginResponse();
try
{
var user = this.UserManager.FindAsync(loginRequest.username, loginRequest.password);
if (user != null)
{
result.ResponseStatusCode = 1;
}
else
{
result.ResponseStatusCode = 0;
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
result.ResponseStatusCode = -1;
}
return result;
}
I can see my Web Api method getting hit, and it returns the expected object type, not my Xamarin application continues to wait on the Flurl Post.
Can anyone advise what I might be doing wrong?
UPDATE:
I have noticed that the following does work, but it's not ideal:
dynamic result = await "http://192.168.0.12:60257/api/loginapi/Login".PostJsonAsync(new { username = "fsdafsd", password = "gdfgdsf" }).ReceiveJson();

Answer 1

Fixed it. For whatever reason, it was the type I was trying to return. Changing the object variable type to "dynamic" fixed this, and allowed me to deserialise the object correctly.
dynamic result = await "http://192.168.0.12:60257/api/loginapi/Login".PostJsonAsync(new { username = "fsdafsd", password = "gdfgdsf" }).ReceiveJson();
Returns a dynamic object with the properties I'd expect in the normal structure.
If anyone can enlighten my why I couldn't do:
LoginRequest result = ...
It'd be appreciated.