Hi, what is the canonical way to create a flow tha...
# coroutinesr
roy
08/30/2019, 7:49 AMHi, what is the canonical way to create a flow that replays its history whenever it's subscribed to? I have a Flow<String> that contains some log lines and whenever someone calls my API I'd like it to publish all previous log lines and additionally any new ones, by returning the flow as a server-sent event
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octylFractal
08/30/2019, 9:50 AMa flow can't replay its history, but every time you run a terminal operation it will rerun the original flow. you'd have to make that source replay all data somehow
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streetsofboston
08/30/2019, 12:01 PMr
roy
08/30/2019, 2:27 PMYes, I saw those issues, but I thought I was just fundamentally misunderstanding the issue. It's fine if I need to keep the original data around somewhere, but I was wondering how to connect the 'previously sent data' to the newly available data. More specifically, how to join the old data with the new data coming from a
callbackFlowroy
08/30/2019, 2:29 PMbut I guess that's just doing a
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