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Discussion on: Introduction to the Compose Snapshot system

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Marek Langiewicz

I found a typo: mutableSnapshotOf -> mutableStateOf, but more importantly: I don't understand what do you mean by "all writes are considered non-conflicting" in standard equality policies. I guess you've shown the write conflict in the example above. I also don't get how custom merge should report a failure. By returning null? But what if the mutable state type is nullable and we want to succeed with null result.
BTW if you're hesitating about next parts of this awesome series how about an example of custom simplified text "UI"? Sth like github.com/JakeWharton/mosaic but simplified to fit the blog post(s). It would be great to see how this snapshot system (and some custom applier I guess) should be used in such cases and why. Especially the "why". I find your explanations of intentions behind the compose parts especially useful.

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gmk57

Equality policies docs have been clarified since then. Looks like "structural" & "referential" are non-conflicting when new value is equal to an old one. neverEqualPolicy is always conflicting.

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Zach Klippenstein

Thanks, fixed the typo!

I don't understand what do you mean by "all writes are considered non-conflicting" in standard equality policies. … I also don't get how custom merge should report a failure. By returning null? But what if the mutable state type is nullable and we want to succeed with null result.

I am not sure of the answer to this unfortunately. Since the default return value is null, and in that case conflicting writes do fail, the wording "all writes are non-conflicting" is definitely confusing. I'll dig into this a bit more and try to clarify.