So, I’ve defined a simple data class, as follows:

@Serializable
data class UserSession(
    var name: String = "",
    val isEnrolled: Boolean = false,
)

This class relates to another Kotlin class, UserSessionViewModel, as follows:

class UserSessionViewModel(
    private val application: Application,
    private val store: DataStore<UserSession>,
) : AndroidViewModel(application), KoinComponent {

    /**
     * A [Flow] representing the current [UserSession].
     * It emits every time the user session is updated.
     */
    val userSession: Flow<UserSession>
        get() = store.data

    /**
     * Enrolls the user in the application.
     * Updates the `isEnrolled` property of [UserSession] to true.
     */
    fun enroll() {
        viewModelScope.launch {
            store.updateData {
                it.copy(isEnrolled = true)
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Caches the given name in the [UserSession].
     *
     * @param name The name to be cached.
     */
    fun cacheName(name: String) {
        viewModelScope.launch {
            store.updateData {
                it.copy(name = name)
            }
        }
    }

    fun getEnrolledName(): String {
        viewModelScope.launch {
            store.<proper-method?> {
                //what do I do here to return the 'name' variable's value?
        }
    }

//and other, similar write-only methods into the data-store
}

My question: how would I implement a simple ‘getter’ method into one of these variables? Or, is there a need to do so?

The other examples I’ve found always talk about implementing a Preferences DataStore…this isn’t quite the case. I just want to make sure my variable of interest, persists across app restarts, and can be read within my UserSessionViewModel object’s methods

Thanks in advance,

Charles.