Converter with async operatiron: string to image

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Hello,
at the moment I’m using a converter to bind to an image. Inside the viewmodel I have a string containing the reference to the image inside an addressable group. At the moment the converter looks as followed:

    public struct StringToImageConverter
    {

        private static AsyncOperationHandle<Sprite> imageOperationHandle;

        public static StyleBackground Convert(string name)
        {
            imageOperationHandle = Addressables.LoadAssetAsync<Sprite>(name);
            imageOperationHandle.WaitForCompletion();
            if (imageOperationHandle.Status == AsyncOperationStatus.Succeeded)
                return new StyleBackground(imageOperationHandle.Result);

            Debug.LogWarning("Failed to load image with name: " + name);
            return null;
        }
    }

On desktop this is working correctly. But when using this code on WebGL I get an error about “imageOperationHandle.WaitForCompletion();” not supported in WebGL. Is there a better way to implement a converter with async operations? Preferable without moving the loading of the Sprite into the viewmodel.

Thanks in advance
Regards Stefan