Is there a nice way to convert a shared flow to a ...

# coroutines

[rnett]

Is there a nice way to convert a shared flow to a state flow by just providing the initial value? The flow is already hot, so I'm hoping I wouldn't need to provide a scope (and wouldn't have a separate collection coroutine running)

[rnett]

The closest I can find is MutableStateFlow().onCompletion{ emitAll(sharedFlow) } which loses the state flow type

[Geert]

Do you mean something like: sharedFlow.stateIn(someCoroutineScope) ?

[rnett]

Kind of, but I want to provide the initial value, and ideally not have collection running in another coroutine

[Joffrey]

How would you imagine it would work behind the scenes?

[uli]

You could provide your own implementation of the StateFlow interface:

public interface StateFlow<out T> : SharedFlow<T> {
    /**
     * The current value of this state flow.
     */
    public val value: T
}

But it’s hard to get right. If look at google for implementations of `fun StateFlow.map(…):StateFlow`you will probably find some inspiration

[rnett]

I realized that the constantly up to date value accessor was driving most of the problems, and I didn't actually need it (I just needed the initial value to pass into collectAsState, so I went with that and just passed around the initial value and flow of updates