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Hands-On Reactive Programming with Reactor

You're reading from   Hands-On Reactive Programming with Reactor Build reactive and scalable microservices using the Reactor framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135794
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Reactive Streams 2. The Publisher and Subscriber APIs in a Reactor FREE CHAPTER 3. Data and Stream Processing 4. Processors 5. SpringWebFlux for Microservices 6. Dynamic Rendering 7. Flow Control and Backpressure 8. Handling Errors 9. Execution Control 10. Testing and Debugging 11. Assessments 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Stream publisher

As we discussed in the previous chapter, the publisher is responsible for the generation of unbounded asynchronous events, and it pushes them to the associated subscribers. It is represented by the org.reactivestreams.Publisher interface, as follows:

public interface Publisher<T> {
    public void subscribe(Subscriber<? super T> s);
}

The interface provides a single subscribe method. The method is invoked by any party that is interested in listening to events published by the publisher. The interface is quite simple, and it can be used to publish any type of event, be it a UI event (like a mouse-click) or a data event.

Since the interface is simple, let's add an implementation for our custom FibonacciPublisher:

public class FibonacciPublisher implements Publisher<Integer> {
@Override
public void subscribe(Subscriber<? super Integer...
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Hands-On Reactive Programming with Reactor
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Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789135794
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