Introduction: Job and Awaiting Children
Explore the concept of Job in Kotlin coroutines and its role in managing coroutine lifecycle and state. Understand how parent and child coroutines interact, how Jobs handle cancellation and completion, and how to await coroutine completion effectively. Gain foundational knowledge for better coroutine synchronization and management.
We'll cover the following...
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Jobs and awaiting children
In the “Structured Concurrency” lesson, we mentioned the following consequences of the parent-child relationship:
- Children inherit context from their parents.
- A parent suspends until all the children are finished.
- When the parent is canceled, its child’s coroutines are also canceled.
- When a child is destroyed, it also destroys the parent.
The fact that a child inherits its context from its parent is a basic part of a coroutine builder’s behavior. ...