Hi what is the design pattern to have a list of cl...

# compose-web

[Ayfri]

Hi what is the design pattern to have a list of classes containing data which is got from a Promise ? Like how do I set the variable and how do I say that if it's empty, try to get the value and wait until the list has data to put the composables using the data ?

[Derek Ellis]

You can use the .await() extension on the promise to turn it into a coroutine, and then you can treat it like you would treat any data coming from an ordinary coroutine.

[Ayfri]

And what is the design pattern for data coming from a coroutine ? :>

[Derek Ellis]

If you wanted to work directly with the coroutine and put your data code in your composable (which isn't ideal) you can do something like this:

@Composable
fun MyComposable() { 
  var theList by mutableStateOf(emptyList())

  LaunchedEffect(Unit) { 
    theList = getData().await()
  }

  theList.forEach { 
    // ...
  }
}

[Ayfri]

thanks it works !!

[Derek Ellis]

it's simple and it works, but normally I think you would turn it into a flow as part of a ViewModel or something to help modularize your code

class MyViewModel { 
  val theListData: Flow<List<?>> = flow {
    emit(getData().await())
  }
}

@Composable
fun MyComposable(viewModel: MyViewModel) {
  val theList by viewModel.theListData.collectAsState(emptyList())
  theList.forEach {
    // ...
  }
}

[Ayfri]

Yes I know but it's a list that comes from a JSON that I fetch using Ktor and kotlinx.serialization, so I get the entire list at once so I don't need any flow, also the list is just less than 100 items, they have quite a lot of data but it's almost only literal values and other are not that big

[andylamax]

I agree, for one emission, you don't need a flow at all