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Learning RxJava

You're reading from   Learning RxJava Build concurrent applications using reactive programming with the latest features of RxJava 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789950151
Length 412 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nick Samoylov Nick Samoylov
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Foundations of Reactive Programming in Java
2. Thinking Reactively FREE CHAPTER 3. Observable and Observer 4. Basic Operators 5. Section 2: Reactive Operators
6. Combining Observables 7. Multicasting, Replaying, and Caching 8. Concurrency and Parallelization 9. Switching, Throttling, Windowing, and Buffering 10. Flowable and Backpressure 11. Transformers and Custom Operators 12. Section 3: Integration of RxJava applications
13. Testing and Debugging 14. RxJava on Android 15. Using RxJava for Kotlin 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Introducing Lambda Expressions 1. Appendix B: Functional Types 2. Appendix C: Mixing Object-Oriented and Reactive Programming 3. Appendix D: Materializing and Dematerializing 4. Appendix E: Understanding Schedulers

Understanding unsubscribeOn()

One last concurrency operator that we need to cover is unsubscribeOn(). Disposing of an Observable can be an expensive (in terms of the time it takes) operation, depending on the nature of the source. For instance, if the Observable emits the results of a database query using RxJava-JDBC, (https://github.com/davidmoten/rxjava-jdbc), it can be expensive to dispose of because it needs to shut down the JDBC resources it is using. This can cause the thread that calls dispose() to become busy. If this is a UI thread in JavaFX or Android (for instance, because a CANCEL PROCESSING button was clicked), this can cause undesirable UI freezing.

Here is a simple Observable that is emitting every second. We stop the main thread for 3 seconds and then call dispose() to shut the operation down. Let's use doOnDispose() (which will be executed by the disposing...

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