diff --git a/src/apatheia/macroutils.nim b/src/apatheia/macroutils.nim
index 42ae072..25af953 100644
--- a/src/apatheia/macroutils.nim
+++ b/src/apatheia/macroutils.nim
@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ proc hasReturnType*(params: NimNode): bool =
      params[0].kind != nnkEmpty:
     result = true
 
+proc getReturnType*(params: NimNode): NimNode =
+  if params != nil and params.len > 0 and params[0] != nil and
+     params[0].kind != nnkEmpty:
+    result = params[0]
+
 proc firstArgument*(params: NimNode): (NimNode, NimNode) =
   if params != nil and
       params.len > 0 and
diff --git a/src/apatheia/tasks.nim b/src/apatheia/tasks.nim
index be9b318..a2c5516 100644
--- a/src/apatheia/tasks.nim
+++ b/src/apatheia/tasks.nim
@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@ macro asyncTask*(p: untyped): untyped =
     body = p[6]
     name = repr(procId).strip(false, true, {'*'})
   
-  echo "ASYNC_TASK: name: ", name
-  echo "ASYNC_TASK: params: \n", params.treeRepr
+  echo "\nASYNC_TASK: "
+  echo "name: ", name
+  echo "hasReturnType: ", hasReturnType(params)
+  echo "getReturnType: ", params.getReturnType().treeRepr
+  echo "params: \n", params.treeRepr
   let tcall = mkCall(ident"test", params)
   echo "ASYNC_TASK: call: \n", tcall.treeRepr
 
@@ -25,9 +28,13 @@ type
 
 proc doHashes*(data: openArray[byte],
                opts: HashOptions) {.asyncTask.} =
-
   echo "args: ", args.len()
 
+proc doHashesRes*(data: openArray[byte],
+               opts: HashOptions): int {.asyncTask.} =
+  echo "args: ", args.len()
+  result = 10
+
 
 
 when false: