Hey guys, I have a function inside a coroutinescop...

# coroutines

[otakusenpai]

Hey guys,
I have a function inside a coroutinescope which I need to call every few seconds. How do I do that? It's a timer kind of thing.

[otakusenpai]

This was what I used earlier, but now I dont remember what I did to make it work... https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.concurrent/timer.html

[octylFractal]

there's https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines/channels.html#ticker-channels

[octylFractal]

I don't think timer is coroutine-aware so I don't think you can use that & properly suspend

[otakusenpai]

Oh yes ticker channels...thats what I used last time

[otakusenpai]

Thnx

[otakusenpai]

On a sidenote, how do I pass the function that I want to work on to a ticker channel ?

[octylFractal]

you don't, you would just consumer the channel to time it

[octylFractal]

assuming you have `val channel = ticker(...)`:

for (delay in channel) {
     functionToRun()
}

[otakusenpai]

ok let me see

[otakusenpai]

ok Im having this one problem.
The function Im using send a message over a network, and uses a flood locking mechanism to stop flooding. Now when I try to use this

val one = async {
for(delay in whoUpdater) {
                            logger.log(toLog, toFile,"$botname: Turning on channel sync")
                            updateChanList()
                            logger.log(toLog, toFile,"$botname: Done syncing")
                        }
}
one.await()

Then it justs listens for that message instead of any other message. How do i stop it from happening?

[otakusenpai]

I could put a small break statement inside the for loop but idk

[otakusenpai]

Ok I put a break inside tht for loop but no change....
Please guide me

[Dico]

I don't understand the problem

[Dico]

Instead of async I think you should use launch
And don't await, what are you awaiting