Javaru

Javaru

Kotlin Coroutine Confidence: Code does not run (pg 225)

When I run pets/v23 from page 225, I get a quick flash of the “control panel” window, and then the program exits. There is no output in the console other than:

Process finished with exit code 0

Same problem for pets/v24 .

For pets/v25 and pets/v26, I get a single window, and then after the 15 second delay, rather than a second slide show starting, the program exits.

book-kotlin-coroutine-confidence version B3

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sam-cooper

sam-cooper

Author of Kotlin Coroutine Confidence

Wow, thanks for spotting this! I’m embarrassed I missed it.

Looks like the bug is in the suspending createWindow() function. When we invoke the block() parameter (which, by the way, I’ve renamed to onWindowOpened() after our previous thread), we call window.dispose() immediately afterwards. But the lambda function doesn’t just need to wait for its own code; it also has a CoroutineScope receiver which it can use to launch additional coroutines.

The solution is to wrap block()/onWindowOpened() with its own coroutineScope { … }:

suspend fun createWindow(
  title: String,
  onWindowOpened: suspend CoroutineScope.(JFrame) -> Unit
): Unit = withContext(Dispatchers.Main) {
  val window = JFrame(title)
  window.defaultCloseOperation = JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE
  window.size = Dimension(400, 300)
  launch {
    window.addWindowListener(object : WindowAdapter() {
      override fun windowClosed(e: WindowEvent) = this@launch.cancel()
    })
    window.isVisible = true
    try {
      coroutineScope { onWindowOpened(window) }
    } finally {
      window.dispose()
    }
  }
}

This ensures the try block waits for the child coroutines as well as the suspending code. Adding a CoroutineScope receiver to an already-suspending function is a bit of an unusual pattern—it’s something I’d only ever really do in higher-order functions like this one. You can see the same pattern in the launch() and async() functions. It’s really just a convenience thing. Without it, callers would still be able to launch child coroutines by adding a coroutineScope() block inside the lambda code block. In other words, the two working options would be:

  • createWindow(…) { launch { … } } + coroutineScope { onWindowOpened(window) }, or
  • createWindow(…) { coroutineScope { launch { … } } } + onWindowOpened(window)

Evidently I changed my mind halfway through implementing it, and ended up halfway between the two options.

I might add a quick note next to the original createWindow() function explaining this extra coroutineScope(), since it’s a little unusual.

Thank you again for reporting the bug!

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