:wave: — what’s the “correct” way to retrieve a JW...

# android

[Luke Carpenter]

👋 — what’s the “correct” way to retrieve a JWT saved in a Proto DataStore in an API client? I have a DataSource which wraps the Flow from DataStore, but it’s not obvious how I can get the “latest token” from the flow — last on the flow blocks the app, and collectLatest gives me a closure not a return value, so I’m a little confused on what I do 😵‍💫 😵

[Luke Carpenter]

Here’s the options I have so far — any guidance you can provide would be very very helpful! 🙇

Untitled.kt

[Luke Carpenter]

Solved this by launching a new coroutine in init specifically to copy from the flow to an instance variable on the API client:

[Luke Carpenter]

init {
        scope.launch {
            apiPreferencesDataSource.apiData.collect { apiData ->
                Log.d("PartScanClient", "[INIT] getConfig: apiData='$apiData'")

                [e-mail] = apiData.token
            }
        }
    }

not confident this is the recommended way to get this done, but, it works