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:wave: Hi all! Say I want something like `suspend fun request(url: URL): MyDataClass`, but I want to cache the HTTP results so I don’t make requests twice. Anyone know a good example of how to do that? <@U2E974ELT>’s excellent post <https://medium.com/@elizarov/deadlocks-in-non-hierarchical-csp-e5910d137cc> has a nice example, but the only way I can think to wrap the channels in a suspend function is using `Deferred`’s. Is that the way to do it? It feels clunky.

Perhaps you could use an `actor` where the `actor` caches the results, so if it receives a message asking for `MyDataClass` it will either fetch it or used the cached version?

Ah yes, so this approach seems to use `Deferred`s <https://github.com/kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/master/core/kotlinx-coroutines-core/test/guide/example-sync-07.kt> so maybe that is the way to do it.