I've read all about `Flow`s and I still do not understand if/how I can replace channels with flows in my library. I really need to be able to do

.send

on the one side and iterate when reading on the other side, but at the same time I need to transform the data using

map

and

filter

, which are obsolete for channels.

Flows are not a replacement for channels

additionally, you can create your own flow by simply doing https://kotlin.github.io/kotlinx.coroutines/kotlinx-coroutines-core/kotlinx.coroutines.flow/flow.html its a little more restricted than a channel, since it's a cold stream -- coroutine does not run until first request

Channel<>.asFlow()

should help.

Where is

asFlow

defined?