A sender that does not prevent the channel from being closed.

If all Sender instances of a channel were dropped and only WeakSender instances remain, the channel is closed.

In order to send messages, the WeakSender needs to be upgraded using WeakSender::upgrade, which returns Option<Sender>. It returns None if all Senders have been dropped, and otherwise it returns a Sender.

Examples

use tokio::sync::broadcast::channel;

# #[tokio::main(flavor = "current_thread")]
# async fn main() {
let (tx, _rx) = channel::<i32>(15);
let tx_weak = tx.downgrade();

// Upgrading will succeed because `tx` still exists.
assert!(tx_weak.upgrade().is_some());

// If we drop `tx`, then it will fail.
drop(tx);
assert!(tx_weak.clone().upgrade().is_none());
# }