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Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627160
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Miguel Angel Castiblanco Torres Miguel Angel Castiblanco Torres
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello, Concurrent World! 2. Coroutines in Action FREE CHAPTER 3. Life Cycle and Error Handling 4. Suspending Functions and the Coroutine Context 5. Iterators, Sequences, and Producers 6. Channels - Share Memory by Communicating 7. Thread Confinement, Actors, and Mutexes 8. Testing and Debugging Concurrent Code 9. The Internals of Concurrency in Kotlin 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Interacting with channels

The behavior of Channel<T> is composed by two interfaces, SendChannel<T> and ReceiveChannel<T>. In this section, we will take a look at the functions defined by each and how they are used to interact with a channel.

SendChannel

This interface defines a couple of functions to send elements through a channel and other functions in order to validate that it's possible to send something.

Validating before sending

There are a few validations that you can perform before trying to send elements through the channel. The most common...

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