Obviously this is an anti-pattern, but how would one go about converting a `Flow<T>` into a `R...

# coroutines

[zak.taccardi]

Obviously this is an anti-pattern, but how would one go about converting a Flow<T> into a ReceiveChannel<T>?

I’ve tried the following so far, but it’s deadlocking

@Suppress("DeprecatedCallableAddReplaceWith")
@Deprecated("You should be using Flows, not channels.")
fun <T> Flow<T>.collectAsReceiveChannel(scope: CoroutineScope): ReceiveChannel<T> {
    val flow = this

    val channel = Channel<T>()

    val flowJob = scope.launch {
        flow
            .onEach { item -> channel.send(item) }
            .collect()
    }

    channel.invokeOnClose {
        flowJob.cancel()
    }

    return channel
}

[louiscad]

Just use produceIn

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

What Louis said – not only is it less code for you to write, it also plugs into channel operator fusion so can be more efficient.