very very dumb question. I have a `csvReader.open(file) { ... }` function from a library. The probl...

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[Phani Mahesh]

very very dumb question. I have a csvReader.open(file) { ... } function from a library. The problem is the lambda is not suspend-aware. Is there any way to call a suspend fn in the lambda there other than calling runBlocking? FWIW, this is all inside a suspending function, so I do not want to do runBlocking inside a suspend function. It just feels so wrong.

[nanodeath]

so to be clear, your the containing function has suspend, the open function callback is not suspend, and you want to be able to call other suspend methods from inside the callback?

[Phani Mahesh]

Yes.

[Adam Powell]

Why do you want to suspend while reading a file from a blocking reader API?

[Phani Mahesh]

I was using the library wrong, I just realized I can readAsSequence inside the open lambda, get the sequence out, and process it as I want in the suspending context out of the blocking callback to open. Thanks @Adam Powell!

[Phani Mahesh]

Actually that won't work because the stream is closed outside the lambda, and reading from sequence fails. Oh well. I found we have the author and a (small) community hanging around in #CMAL3470A, moving this there