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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&amp;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.

Thanks <@UJBKXD0HH>! Yeah, that sounds like what I'm looking for.

I see it's annotated `@ObsoleteCoroutinesApi`, though. What is the non-obsolete alternative? <https://kotlin.github.io/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-core/kotlinx.coroutines.channels/actor.html|The docs> link to <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/87|an issue with a 3.5 year long discussion>, but no clear answer.

probably exactly what you're already doing :slightly_smiling_face:

but the pattern does have a long precedent, as you can see

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. :confused:

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.