How do you get root coroutine context? Or can you ...
# coroutinesr
Rechee Jozil
10/22/2020, 4:10 PMHow do you get root coroutine context? Or can you walk through parent contexts?
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
10/22/2020, 4:21 PMYou can definitely traverse the job hierarchy. What are you trying to use this for?
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Rechee Jozil
10/22/2020, 4:24 PM@Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] I'm trying to do some automatic profiling of things with coroutines. I want to only profile the timing of the root coroutine though
Rechee Jozil
10/22/2020, 4:24 PMI'd like to give each root coroutine a unique name. However when using Coroutine context to do something like this... It doesn't work so well because context is propagated.
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
10/22/2020, 4:33 PMyea, you can’t mutate contexts, but you could add completion listeners. i think you’d also need to use reflection to get access to the job’s parent, there’s no public API for that.
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