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t

tseisel

06/07/2019, 12:35 PM

Does something like a hot

Flow

make sense, or is

Flow

dedicated to only cold asynchronous streams while `Channel`s are the best choice for hot streams ?

g

gildor

06/07/2019, 1:03 PM

You can convert channel to Flow, so it’s actually become hot

Also, there is proposal to reimplement BroadcastChannel using Flow interface, so it will be actually hot flow https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/1082

a

Allan Wang

06/07/2019, 5:54 PM

@gildor how do you convert channels to flow? Or do you just mean bridging it with something like

flowViaChannel

?

g

gildor

06/07/2019, 6:07 PM

You can create flow from any BroadcastChannel

There is asFlow extension

flowViaChannel is not hot

Probably "convert" is not exactly correct, it's like subscribe on channel emissions using flow

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