Hi ! I'm using ```coroutineScope.launch {``` in order to start a coroutine in my code. But is there ...

# coroutines

[loloof64]

Hi ! I'm using

coroutineScope.launch {

in order to start a coroutine in my code. But is there a variant of launch which runs the coroutine for a given amount of time, instead of infinitely ? Because otherwise, I'm afraid my code, which is a bit a kind of spaghetti as now, will be worse.

[bezrukov]

no there is no such coroutine builder, but you can wrap launch body into `withTimeout`/`withTimeoutOrNull`:

scope.launch { 
    withTimeout(60_000) {
       // code here will be cancelled after 1 minute
    }
}

[loloof64]

Thank you very much 🙂. That's perfect for me 😄

[Joffrey]

Or if using Kotlin 1.6, withTimeout(1.minutes) 🙂 (but withTimeout(Duration) is still experimental AFAIK even though Duration is stable now)

[Javier]

I guess it is caused by coroutines is not yet in 1.6