How to stop an async task launched by the handler

[BraisGabin]

I have a serch that each time that you type a character it launches a request. The problem is that if I don't cancel I could have this race condition:

• Action Search "mv"
• Action Search "mvf"
• Mutation with items from "mvf"
• Mutation with items from "mv"

At the end the user sees the results of "mv" instead of "mvf".

If I can cancel the collection of the current old flow I would fix it. Maybe there is other way to avoid this problem. I tried out this one: badoo/MVICore#68 (comment) but Flow doesn't have a takeUntil.

[BraisGabin]

If someone see this. A workaround was posted in the last link of the previous post. Basically is an impelemntation of the operator takeUntil for Flow

[pedroql]

Hi,

This is indeed an interesting scenario (and I've needed this in other MVI libraries). I haven't had time to look into this so I don't yet know if it would be easy to plug this functionality or if it would require more significant changes. I'll try to have a look and post something, but I don't know when that will be possible.

Anyway, the source is relatively small so I would suggest you try it yourself. I'm happy to help too (within my time availability).