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Do not propagate cancellation to the upstream in Flow flat* operators #2964

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A new mental model is now perfectly aligned with the rest of the coroutines:

  • Where one [semantically] expects a new child to be launched (e.g. in merge or in flatMap*), the cancellation works in one direction as expected -- cancellation of the child is not propagated to the parent. It's especially important when the "virtual child" (flow returned by flat*) can have a different cancellation scope (e.g. it can be a separate UI fragment)
  • Where everything happens in-place, e.g. flattenConcat, the behaviour stays the same

Fixes #2942

@qwwdfsad qwwdfsad requested review from elizarov and removed request for elizarov October 1, 2021 14:31
@qwwdfsad qwwdfsad force-pushed the cancellable-flat-map-operators branch from 7dcefb9 to f3ac536 Compare October 8, 2021 12:46
@qwwdfsad qwwdfsad changed the title Non-propagating cancellation of @FlowPreview operators @qwwdfsad Do not propagate cancellation to the upstream in Flow flat* operators Oct 8, 2021
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@qwwdfsad qwwdfsad changed the title @qwwdfsad Do not propagate cancellation to the upstream in Flow flat* operators Do not propagate cancellation to the upstream in Flow flat* operators Oct 8, 2021
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The docs for flattenConcat still state that it's just an optimized flattenMerge(concurrency = 1), but they now have different downstream cancellation behavior. I didn't check the other operators to see if their docs also need to be updated.

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I've updated the doc.

flatMapMerge and flattenMerge indeed now have an observable difference in cancellation behaviour for concurrency equal 1 and > 1. This is a deliberate design decision as the fact that concurrency == 1 is optimized into sequential transformation. Sequential -> no child coroutines -> in place invocations -> in-place cancellation is propagated

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Yeah, I didn't have issues with the change here, only with the fact that the documentation would now be misleading.

@qwwdfsad qwwdfsad merged commit 80af499 into develop Oct 20, 2021
@qwwdfsad qwwdfsad deleted the cancellable-flat-map-operators branch October 20, 2021 11:31
hoc081098 added a commit to hoc081098/FlowExt that referenced this pull request Nov 23, 2021
yorickhenning pushed a commit to yorickhenning/kotlinx.coroutines that referenced this pull request Jan 28, 2022
…Kotlin#2964)

* Do not propagate cancellation to the upstream in Flow flat* operators

Fixes Kotlin#2964
pablobaxter pushed a commit to pablobaxter/kotlinx.coroutines that referenced this pull request Sep 14, 2022
…Kotlin#2964)

* Do not propagate cancellation to the upstream in Flow flat* operators

Fixes Kotlin#2964
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