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Florian

12/02/2020, 9:32 AM
Lets say I have a sealed class
A
with 2 subclasses
B
and
C
. Can I combine a
Flow<B>
and a
Flow<C>
to a
Flow<A>
?
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magnumrocha

12/02/2020, 9:33 AM
combine(flowA, flowB) { some logic here }
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louiscad

12/02/2020, 9:35 AM
@Florian Did you fire up a Google search with the obvious keywords before asking? If not, can you guess what would be the right keywords?
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Florian

12/02/2020, 9:36 AM
I already tried
combine
but I don't see how I can return a Flow of the superclass
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magnumrocha

12/02/2020, 9:36 AM
combine<A>(flowB, flowC)
well, I think the kotlin compiler inference can resolve it for you
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Florian

12/02/2020, 9:37 AM
but I have to return a single value from the block
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louiscad

12/02/2020, 9:37 AM
Now I understand what you can better. It seems you want to merge these two flows, am I right?
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Florian

12/02/2020, 9:37 AM
yes
I can only return something like a
Pair
from
combine
but I want a Flow that emits each value separately as its supertype
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louiscad

12/02/2020, 9:38 AM
So the right keywords are "kotlin flow merge", not combine as combine is designed to combine the last value of each flow.
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Florian

12/02/2020, 9:39 AM
Thanks, but this was not an obvious keyword
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louiscad

12/02/2020, 9:39 AM
Yep, I understand how
combine
was more natural to think of
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Florian

12/02/2020, 9:40 AM
but thank you very much for your help
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louiscad

12/02/2020, 9:41 AM
Did you find the right operator to use?
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Florian

12/02/2020, 9:41 AM
merge seems to work
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louiscad

12/02/2020, 9:41 AM
Yep, looks to be just what you need šŸ™‚
Before asking here, did you look at the KDoc of
combine
? I'm aksing to understand your thought process, and see if the doc should mention the
merge
operator to help folks in the future.
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Florian

12/02/2020, 9:44 AM
I already knew combine, I'm using it in my project
I thought I'll have to use combine but I didn't know with what transform block
I will google more thoroughly next time
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magnumrocha

12/02/2020, 9:51 AM
you can learn a lot with the Rx diagrams that explain the work of each operator...
the concept of Flow transformation operators are pretty the same thing
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Florian

12/02/2020, 9:54 AM
thank you
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magnumrocha

12/02/2020, 9:55 AM
oh, I didn't realize there is one for Flows already: https://flowmarbles.com/
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Florian

12/02/2020, 9:56 AM
wow 🤩 I'm gonna bookmark that right away
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looks like
combine
was actually the correct operator, because with
merge
I don't get all the values into a single Flow
I just get separate emits from both Flows
instead I now merge the 2 lists inside the combine operator like this:
val combinedChatFlow: Flow<List<Chat>> = combine(directChatsFlow, groupChatsFlow) { directChats, groupChats ->
    directChats + groupChats
}
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magnumrocha

12/02/2020, 2:52 PM
this is the difference between the two operators