Can a channel be easily converted to a flow?

# coroutines

[asad.awadia]

Can a channel be easily converted to a flow?

[Adam Powell]

yes but it depends on how you would like it to behave

[asad.awadia]

Any docs?

[Adam Powell]

.consumeAsFlow() will return a flow that is only good for one `collect`; the channel will be automatically cancelled when the collect ends if the channel was not already closed by the sender

[Adam Powell]

https://kotlin.github.io/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-core/kotlinx.coroutines.flow/consume-as-flow.html

[asad.awadia]

Oh so its still hot?

[Adam Powell]

yes, it's still whatever the SendChannel was on the producer end, though as usual, the producer will suspend on send if the buffer is full and there is no waiting consumer

[Adam Powell]

if you want to make a cold flow using a channel to produce into, you might be looking for the channelFlow builder

[asad.awadia]

Oh awesome yes that’s exactly what I was looking for

[asad.awadia]

Thanks!!