Best asynchronous while method

Question

I need to write some asynchronous code that essentially attempts to repeatedly talk to and initialise a database. Quite often the first attempt will fail hence the requirem

Answer 1

You don't really need WaitItForWork method, just await for a database initialization task:

async Task Run()
{
    await InitializeDatabase();
    // Do what you need after database is initialized
}

async Task InitializeDatabase()
{
    // Perform database initialization here
}

If you have multiple pieces of code that call to WaitForItToWork then you need to wrap database initialization into a Task and await it in all workers, for example:

readonly Task _initializeDatabaseTask = InitializeDatabase();

async Task Worker1()
{
    await _initializeDatabaseTask;
    // Do what you need after database is initialized
}

async Task Worker2()
{
    await _initializeDatabaseTask;
    // Do what you need after database is initialized
}

static async Task InitializeDatabase()
{
    // Initialize your database here
}