Async threadsafe Get from MemoryCache

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A simple solution would be to use SemaphoreSlim.WaitAsync() instead of a lock, and then you could get around the issue of awaiting inside a lock. Although, all other methods of MemoryCache are thread-safe.

private SemaphoreSlim semaphoreSlim = new SemaphoreSlim(1);
public async Task<T> GetAsync(
            string key, Func<Task<T>> populator, TimeSpan expire, object parameters)
{
    if (parameters != null)
        key += JsonConvert.SerializeObject(parameters);

    if (!_cache.Contains(key))
    {
        await semaphoreSlim.WaitAsync();
        try
        {
            if (!_cache.Contains(key))
            {
                var data = await populator();
                _cache.Add(key, data, DateTimeOffset.Now.Add(expire));
            }
        }
        finally
        {
            semaphoreSlim.Release();
        }
    }

    return (T)_cache.Get(key);
}

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