Barrier Design Pattern
Understand how to implement the Barrier design pattern in Kotlin to coordinate multiple asynchronous tasks. Learn to start concurrent coroutines simultaneously and wait for all to complete, improving performance and code clarity in concurrent scenarios.
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The Barrier design pattern provides us with the ability to wait for multiple concurrent tasks to complete before proceeding further. A common use case for this is composing objects from different sources.
For example, take the following class:
data class FavoriteCharacter(val name: String,val catchphrase: String,val picture: ByteArray = Random.nextBytes(42))
FavoriteCharacter data class with name, catchphrase, and picture properties
Let’s assume that the catchphrase data comes from one service and the picture data comes from another. We would like to fetch these two pieces of ...