Barrier Design Pattern
Learn how to implement the Barrier design pattern in Kotlin.
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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 ...