Hey guys, Are normal function calls in suspend fun...

# android

[Shaheer Muzammil]

Hey guys,
Are normal function calls in suspend function, sequential?
For Example; in the snippet below, will the liveData post empty list or wait for the suspend call to finish and post that list?

var dataList = emptyList()
fun suspend fetchData(){
    dataList = repository.getData() //another suspend function
                         .map{/* some mapping logic */}
    liveData.postValue(dataList)
}

I have this scenario and an empty list is being printed.

[mkrussel]

The liveData.postValue(dataList) will not run until after the call to repository.getData() returns.

Some other piece of could is probably initializing the liveData with an empty list, or getData is returning an empty list.

[Shaheer Muzammil]

hmmm, makes sense ...

Just confirming, so every line of code in a suspend function is sequential, either suspend function or normal function or any other computation.

and to run parallel operations we will need to launch another coroutine either with launch or async.

[mkrussel]

yes

[Shaheer Muzammil]

Thanks a lot!

[nilTheDev]

@Shaheer Muzammil Unless you are doing coroutinescope.lauch or coroutinescope.async almost everything is sequential. That's the general rule of thumb.