Kotlin Coroutines Delay Job (Synchronized)

May 16, 2018

Behaviour of the following code:

Use kotlin coroutines for async task.
Schedule a job to run 10 seconds later. If the function is called again before the previous delay/wait complete, it shall reset to wait 10 seconds again.
The job is thread-safe and ensure only one "instance" is running.

@Volatile private var backupJob: Job? = null@Synchronized fun scheduleBackupJob() {    Log.d(TAG, "backupJob.schedule")    backupJob?.apply {        // if job still waiting, cancel it        if (isActive) {            cancel()        }    }    // launch job with 10s delay    backupJob = launch {        Log.d(TAG, "backupJob.wait")        delay(10000L)        if (isActive) {            Log.d(TAG, "backupJob.start")            // do something            Log.d(TAG, "backupJob.end")        }        else {            Log.d(TAG, "backupJob.cancel")        }    }}

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