start

Starts store intent processing in a new coroutine in the given scope. Intents are processed as long as the parent scope is active.

Starting store processing when it is already started will result in an exception.

Although not always needed, store can be launched multiple times, assuming you cancel the job used before or call Store.close.

Returns an ImmutableStoreLifecycle that the store is running on that can be cancelled later. A mutable version Store returns a mutable StoreLifecycle that can be used to stop the store.

The Store also implements StoreLifecycle but there is an important distinction between the one returned by this method and the Store itself. The returned reference only tracks the lifecycle resulting from this call, while the Store tracks all starts and stops as a single lifecycle.

For example, waiting for startup or closing the returned lifecycle multiple times is a no-op, while the store object itself will have the opposite behavior and wait for the next start call.