I am having some trouble fixing a race condition w...

# coroutines

[Joseph PH]

I am having some trouble fixing a race condition where there are multiple executions on the same function , I was thinking of adding a field marking the status of the object that is still in progress, but is there any other elegant way to address this?

[bdawg.io]

How will you be preventing this field from experiencing race conditions with shared mutable state?

[Luis Munoz]

sounds like you want to do @synchronized

[uli]

Are you developing the UI or the Backend?

[Joseph PH]

@uli Backend sir

[uli]

It really depends. With coroutines, you could use an actor pattern instead of withLock.
As you are talking about a database, you might also want to look into database transactions / locking.

[Luis Munoz]

What I would do is when the user clicks a button launch a job in the backend, if he clicks it again and the job is active you can cancel the first job and launch a new one. Or it will just return the same one that was first launched.

[Luis Munoz]

job = launch { your code }