Hello, I have a question. I want to perform a simple background job using coroutines. Currently I have an

object

that does stuff and writes to a status object that I can then read to know the state of the job (like how many items are processed etc). This is obviously crap because I currently block the entire server. I now want to redo this the right way. I use

launch

since the job doesnt return anything, it just does stuff. I know I can ask that job

isActive()

and stuff like that but how can I ask access that jobs memory, like shared memory? I just want to ask how many items it has processed etc so I can show that in my frontend.

maybe use a Channel to send updates on progress? Like a Channel<Int> in your case?

There are a few things here to unpack, firstly you can have a long running HTTP task that doesn't block the server, e.g. a delay() should free up the thread anyway so the server isn't blocked.

Yeah it probably is. I didnt really bother with it though because this is not the official webpage, just some tooling for myself.