Hi, is there an empty ReceiveChannel available in kotlinx.coroutines ?

No, but you can do

produce {}

. What is your use-case for it?

Yes, I wrote

private val EmptyChannel = produce<Nothing> { }

fun <E> emptyChannel(): ReceiveChannel<E> = EmptyChannel

I just wondered if there was already something. thanks

Please consider filing an issue to https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues explaining your use-case. PR would be welcome, too.

Basically we have the following interface:

interface MyInterface {
	fun openEventSubscription(): ReceiveChannel<Event>
}

Of course most implementations would delegate the subscription to a

BroadcastChannel

or use

produce

to create a channel. But, in some edges cases and in tests the implementation may simply want to return an empty channel Do you think it makes sense ? Should I submit an issue or a PR ?