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Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

By : Miguel Angel Castiblanco Torres
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Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

By: Miguel Angel Castiblanco Torres

Overview of this book

Kotlin is a modern and statically typed programming language with support for concurrency. Complete with detailed explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, Learning Concurrency in Kotlin addresses the unique challenges in design and implementation of concurrent code. This practical guide will help you to build distributed and scalable applications using Kotlin. Beginning with an introduction to Kotlin's coroutines, you’ll learn how to write concurrent code and understand the fundamental concepts needed to write multithreaded software in Kotlin. You'll explore how to communicate between and synchronize your threads and coroutines to write collaborative asynchronous applications. You'll also learn how to handle errors and exceptions, as well as how to work with a multicore processor to run several programs in parallel. In addition to this, you’ll delve into how coroutines work with each other. Finally, you’ll be able to build an Android application such as an RSS reader by putting your knowledge into practice. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned techniques and skills to write optimized code and multithread applications.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Writing the tests

Let's write a simple and flawed application that can help us, as an example of how to write Functional Tests for concurrent applications. In practice, writing these tests will require more work, but the principles should still apply.

Creating a flawed UserManager

Using interfaces to define the dependencies of our code will allow us to provide mocks during the tests. Let's start by defining a basic DataSource interface that contains the methods that will be used concurrently:

interface DataSource {
fun getNameAsync(id: Int): Deferred<String>
fun getAgeAsync(id: Int): Deferred<Int>
fun getProfessionAsync(id: Int): Deferred<String>
}

Now, let's define a data class that...