So is it safe to use `runCatching` in coroutines for control kotlinlang #coroutines

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ursus

03/24/2021, 2:06 PM

So.. is it safe to use

runCatching

in coroutines for control flow? I gather it will catch CancelationException as well. Won't that break stuff?

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Erik

03/24/2021, 8:25 PM

It depends, but in general I wouldn't use it, because you'll also catch

CancellationException

, which you usually don't want to catch by default

See an interesting discussion here: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/1814 I commented there too, because I had the same question as you and I did some more research

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diego-gomez-olvera

10/26/2021, 10:22 AM

is there any recommended alternative to

runCatching

that re-throws

CancellationException

?

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Oliver.O

10/26/2021, 5:12 PM

Does this help? https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C1CFAFJSK/p1631901872095800?thread_ts=1631873158.088000&cid=C1CFAFJSK

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diego-gomez-olvera

10/28/2021, 9:46 AM

that is what I had in mind, I was wondering if there was some ‘standard’, but I can just write it and use it in my project. Thanks!

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