Hey, what is the recommended way to convert a `ReceiveChannel` to a shared `BroadcastChannel`? I try...

# coroutines

[sdeleuze]

Hey, what is the recommended way to convert a ReceiveChannel to a shared BroadcastChannel? I try to convert my Reactor SSE example to Coroutines where I want to use a single stream from my Mongo database to a shared broadcasted stream to browsers. Reactor version: https://github.com/sdeleuze/spring-kotlin-deepdive/blob/step3/src/main/kotlin/io/spring/deepdive/web/ArticleController.kt#L51-L52. Coroutines version without the broadcast feature: https://github.com/sdeleuze/spring-kotlin-deepdive/blob/step3-coroutine/src/main/kotlin/io/spring/deepdive/web/ArticleController.kt#L52-L57.

[Jonathan]

I'm not sure if it is what you want, but what about :

private val notificationBroadcast = BroadcastChannel(1).apply {
  launch {
	val count = articleEventRepository.count().toInt()
	articleEventRepository.findWithTailableCursorBy().drop(count).consumeEach {
	  send(it)
	}
  }
}

@GetMapping("/notifications", produces = [(MediaType.TEXT_EVENT_STREAM_VALUE)])
suspend fun notifications(): ReceiveChannel<ArticleEvent> = notificationBroadcast.openSubscription()

[Jonathan]

Maybe easier to read that way: https://github.com/jcornaz/spring-kotlin-deepdive/commit/a8427bea79db33cb5ef2886ab4f4587e1c11c604

[sdeleuze]

Thanks but the content of the channel seems not to be sent to the browser with this version while it is with the ReceiveChannel one so I guess something is missing.