<@UD17D4K8W> I'm upgrading from v2 to v4 and I use...

# ballast

[rocketraman]

@Casey Brooks I'm upgrading from v2 to v4 and I used to have an interceptor which used BallastNotification.ViewModelStarted to send an initial input to the view model queue. What would the replacement be now that there is no ViewModelStarted option. I see ViewModelStatusChanged, and I can do if (it.status == Status.Running) but I see that Status.Running is in an internal package. Is there a better approach now?

[Casey Brooks]

notificationFlow.awaitViewModelStart() is what you should be using. It does exactly what you described

https://github.com/copper-leaf/ballast/blob/main/ballast-api/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/copperleaf/ballast/utils.kt#L276

[rocketraman]

Like this?

launch(start = CoroutineStart.UNDISPATCHED) {
      notifications.awaitViewModelStart()
      val initialInput = initialInputFn()
      sendToQueue(Queued.HandleInput(null, initialInput))
    }

[Casey Brooks]

Yup, that’s exactly right. But even better, you can just use BootstrapInterceptor if that’s all you’re doing with the interceptor https://github.com/copper-leaf/ballast/blob/main/ballast-utils/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/copperleaf/ballast/core/BootstrapInterceptor.kt

[rocketraman]

Oh nice, thank you.