How to close the channel after all producer coroutines are done?

Question

Consider the following code:

import kotlinx.coroutines.channels.Channel
import kotlinx.coroutines.*

fun main() = runBlocking<Unit> {
    val channel = Channel<String>()
    launch {
        channel.send("A1")
        channel.send("A2")
        log("A done")
    }
    launch {
        channel.send("B1")
        log("B done")
    }
    launch {
        for (x in channel) {
            log(x)
        }
    }
}

fun log(message: Any?) {
    println("[${Thread.currentThread().name}] $message")
}

The original version has the receiver coroutine like that:

launch {
        repeat(3) {
            val x = channel.receive()
            log(x)
        }
    }

It expects only 3 messages in the channel. If I change it to the first version then I need to close the channel after all producer coroutines are done. How can I do that?

Answer 1

A possible solution is to create a job that will wait for all channel.send() to finish, and call channel.close() in the invokeOnCompletion of this job:

import kotlinx.coroutines.channels.Channel
import kotlinx.coroutines.*

fun main() = runBlocking<Unit> {
    val channel = Channel<String>()
    launch {
      launch {
          channel.send("A1")
          channel.send("A2")
          log("A done")
      }
      launch {
          channel.send("B1")
          log("B done")
      }
    }.invokeOnCompletion {
        channel.close()
    }
    launch {
        for (x in channel) {
            log(x)
        }
    }
}

fun log(message: Any?) {
    println("[${Thread.currentThread().name}] $message")
}