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Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

By : Alexey Soshin
Book Image

Hands-On Design Patterns with Kotlin

By: Alexey Soshin

Overview of this book

Design patterns enable you as a developer to speed up the development process by providing you with proven development paradigms. Reusing design patterns helps prevent complex issues that can cause major problems, improves your code base, promotes code reuse, and makes an architecture more robust. The mission of this book is to ease the adoption of design patterns in Kotlin and provide good practices for programmers. The book begins by showing you the practical aspects of smarter coding in Kotlin, explaining the basic Kotlin syntax and the impact of design patterns. From there, the book provides an in-depth explanation of the classical design patterns of creational, structural, and behavioral families, before heading into functional programming. It then takes you through reactive and concurrent patterns, teaching you about using streams, threads, and coroutines to write better code along the way By the end of the book, you will be able to efficiently address common problems faced while developing applications and be comfortable working on scalable and maintainable projects of any size.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Deferred channel

The more you work with coroutines, the more you'll get used to await results. At some point, you'll start sending deferred values over channels.

We'll start by creating 10 async tasks. The first will delay for a long time, and others we delay for a short time:

val elements = 10
val deferredChannel = Channel<Deferred<Int>>(elements)

launch(CommonPool) {
repeat(elements) { i ->
println("$i sent")
deferredChannel.send(async {
delay(if (i == 0) 1000 else 10)
i
})
}
}

We'll put all those results into a buffered channel.

Now we can read from this channel, and be using a second select block, and await the results:

val time = measureTimeMillis {
repeat(elements) {
val result = select<Int> {
deferredChannel.onReceive {
select {
...