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Learning RxJava

You're reading from   Learning RxJava Reactive, Concurrent, and responsive applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120426
Length 400 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Thomas Nield Thomas Nield
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Thinking Reactively FREE CHAPTER 2. Observables and Subscribers 3. Basic Operators 4. Combining Observables 5. Multicasting, Replaying, and Caching 6. Concurrency and Parallelization 7. Switching, Throttling, Windowing, and Buffering 8. Flowables and Backpressure 9. Transformers and Custom Operators 10. Testing and Debugging 11. RxJava on Android 12. Using RxJava for Kotlin New Appendix

Using to() for fluent conversion

On rare occasions, you may find yourself having to pass an Observable to another API that converts it into a proprietary type. This can be done simply by passing an Observable as an argument to a factory that does this conversion. However, this does not always feel fluent, and this is where the to() operator comes in.

For example, JavaFX has a Binding<T> type that houses a mutable value of type T, and it will notify affected user interface elements to update when it changes. RxJavaFX has JavaFxObserver.toBinding() and JavaFxSubscriber.toBinding() factories, which can turn an Observable<T> or Flowable<T> into a JavaFX Binding<T>. Here is a simple JavaFX Application that uses Binding<String> built-off Observable<String>, which is used to bind to a textProperty() operator of label:

 import io.reactivex.Observable...
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