What would be the kotlin version of this? Runnabl...

# android

[dr.henry]

What would be the kotlin version of this?

Runnable r = new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
while (mStatus) {
synchronized (this) {
try {
wait(1000 * 60);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
continue;
}
}
sendRequest();
}
}
};
thread = new Thread(r);
thread.start();

[Itua]

I think you can copy and paste that in the IDE and it will convert it for you into Kotlin

[dr.henry]

when I use convert, "wait" is not usable

[dr.henry]

continue is not usable

[James]

thread(start = true) {
      while(mStatus) {
        synchronized(this) {
          Thread.sleep(60_000)
          sendRequest()
        }
      }
    }

[James]

Allow the interrupt exception to propagate up?

[dr.henry]

It cause hang app

[James]

If you really need to call wait you can cast to java.lang.Object.

[James]

You can also return a value from synchronised

while(mStatus) {
  val shouldSendRequest = synchronized(this) {
    try {
      (this as java.lang.Object).wait(60_000)
      true
    } catch (ex: Exception) {
      false
    }
  }

  if (shouldSendRequest) sendRequest()
}

[dr.henry]

I will test it and say the result

[oianmol]

you can also use coroutines , i assume

[dr.henry]

@James The whole problem was from my code. I was using "thread.run()" for run created Thread.
Thanks a lot

[dr.henry]

@oianmol Isn't coroutines hard to learn? and isn't it is experimental stage?

[oianmol]

@dr.henry its easy very easy , also experimental is temporary , If you dont want to use coroutines then you can use RxJAVA it has a lot of operators for the use case.

[dr.henry]

Do you can give me a good reference to learn coroutines?

[dave08]

Try the kotlinx.coroutines repo, we're using it, and it's much less mess than threads and runners, and we're also switching from rx....

[dr.henry]

Thanks a lot