Emit from a catch block is bad practice ? Android developer guide says it not <https://developer.and...

# coroutines

[Vaibhav Nalawade]

Emit from a catch block is bad practice ? Android developer guide says it not https://developer.android.com/kotlin/flow

[gildor]

Why is it a bad practice? Really think it depends on your case

[Ian Lake]

This is exactly what the Flow.catch operator is for - to transform or map exceptions thrown upstream into something appropriate for downstream consumers: https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-core/kotlinx.coroutines.flow/catch.html