I find that I frequently need a Job+SendChannel that sends to that job, where the Job acts as a consumer on the channel (internally it has the corresponding ReceiveChannel) and the job exits once the channel is closed for receive. I've built some small helper classes&functions to help with this, but I'm wondering if there's something already in kotlinx.coroutines I missed, or if there's some reason I shouldn't be doing things this way.

CoroutineScope.actor

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Thanks @Adam Powell! Yeah, that sounds like what I'm looking for. I see it's annotated

@ObsoleteCoroutinesApi

, though. What is the non-obsolete alternative? The docs link to an issue with a 3.5 year long discussion, but no clear answer.

probably exactly what you're already doing 🙂

Yeah, I'd expect it to be a very common thing to want to do. Very unfortunate that the existing API is marked obsolete before a replacement has been released. 😕

a bit awkward, but it's still usable as-is, and replacing it should it be removed is a rather quick matter given the simplicity of the pattern.