if I have a long running task which I'm collecting with

longRunningTask().collect{
   // ...
}

is there a way of canceling in the middle of the collecting? Like: I wan the function to finish itself and stop doing what it was doing

You could consider using

transformWhile

which lets you return

true

or

false

to indicate whether you want to continue collecting the flow

from what you suggested, looking at the docs, we have

takeWhile

what type* does

longRunningTask

return?

just a String

A String, or a

Flow<String>

?

Flow<String>

Just checking 😄

sometimes I'm lazy to explain things, my bad