Can StateFlow represent one off events?

# coroutines

[rkeazor]

Can StateFlow represent one off events?

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

It's not ideal if you're only emitting events (use SharedFlow for that). But if you're trying to express a one-off event in your state, you can use some kind of event ID to distinguish events over time.

[streetsofboston]

You can finagle them to make that happen, but they are not ideal for this.

[streetsofboston]

Until the SharedFlow become available, I wrapped a BroadcastChannel in a Flow to make my own shared-flow for now. It works, but the new SharedFlow is much more performant and not as ‘expensive’ (it doesn’t use a broadcastchannel, iirc).

[rkeazor]

Cool thanks yall