async

Creates a coroutine and returns its future result as an implementation of Deferred. The running coroutine is cancelled when the resulting deferred is cancelled. The resulting coroutine has a key difference compared with similar primitives in other languages and frameworks: it cancels the parent job (or outer scope) on failure to enforce structured concurrency paradigm. To change that behaviour, supervising parent (SupervisorJob or supervisorScope) can be used.

Coroutine context is inherited from a CoroutineScope, additional context elements can be specified with context argument. If the context does not have any dispatcher nor any other ContinuationInterceptor, then Dispatchers.Default is used. The parent job is inherited from a CoroutineScope as well, but it can also be overridden with corresponding context element.

By default, the coroutine is immediately scheduled for execution. Other options can be specified via start parameter. See CoroutineStart for details. An optional start parameter can be set to CoroutineStart.LAZY to start coroutine lazily. In this case, the resulting Deferred is created in new state. It can be explicitly started with start function and will be started implicitly on the first invocation of join, await or awaitAll.

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