Acknowledge the web api call before processing in Web Api C#

Question

I have a main web app which sends the alert to second application and the second application here needs to do more work, meanwhile main application will be waiting for the acknowledgment, hence once the second app receives the request, it should acknowledge by sending a flag and then continue its work.

In order to achieve that i am creating a new method and processing the data there and i am calling that new method using new thread and immediately returning the acknowledgement to main app.

Below is my code, am i following the right approach or is there a better way of doing it?

    public bool Post([FromBody] string content)
    {            
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(content))
        {
            Thread thread = new Thread(() => AnotherMethod(content));
            thread.Start();
        }
        return true;
    }

Answer 1

You could try using async / await

public async Task<bool> Post([FromBody] string content)
{            
    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(content))
    {
        await AnotherMethod(content);
    }
    return true;
}

then your AnotherMethod must be async too