Hi, guys, is there any API in `Flow` like `Observa...

# coroutines

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Hi, guys, is there any API in Flow like Observable.timeout?

[Matej Drobnič]

I guess you could use withTimeout method of the coroutines?

[gildor]

withTimeout is not the same, you cannot control emission of items, only overall collect yime. I would create a feature request for this if you have good use case

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I'm writing a MPP for Bluetooth communication. Some code like this

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private fun receiveChunks(count: Int) = notepadType!!.receiveFileInput()
        .filter { it.first() == 0x05.toByte() }
        // TODO Take with timeout
        .take(count)

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The 1.x version was writed in RxKotlin & RxSwift, quit the same way. It receives data in indexed and unsorted chunks, then reduces to a block, kind of TCP --> HTTP

[gildor]

Yeah, make sense. I would create a feature request on kotlinx.coroutunes issue tracker.
But in general it's not hard to write own operator for that with required semantics

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@gildor somehow, the withTimeout doesn't work on iOS without runBlocking. Is there another way round?

[gildor]

Hard to say, maybe some bug, bit better reproduce it and report

[gildor]

But again, not sure what is required semantics for you, because withContext is not the same as Observable.timeout

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https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/462#issuecomment-430111440

delay requires runBlocking. withTimeout maybe the same

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I tried implement the Observabel.timeout by withTimeout, but no luck. I find another way round, with dispatch_after on iOS and Handler.postDelayed on Android.