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Learning Reactive Programming With Java 8

You're reading from   Learning Reactive Programming With Java 8 Learn how to use RxJava and its reactive Observables to build fast, concurrent, and powerful applications through detailed examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785288722
Length 182 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nickolay Tzvetinov Nickolay Tzvetinov
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Preface 1. An Introduction to Reactive Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Using the Functional Constructions of Java 8 3. Creating and Connecting Observables, Observers, and Subjects 4. Transforming, Filtering, and Accumulating Your Data 5. Combinators, Conditionals, and Error Handling 6. Using Concurrency and Parallelism with Schedulers 7. Testing Your RxJava Application 8. Resource Management and Extending RxJava Index

The Observable.create method

Let's look at the signature of the method first:

public final static <T> Observable<T> create(OnSubscribe<T>)

It takes a parameter of type OnSubscribe. This interface extends the Action1<Subscriber<? super T>> interface; in other words, this type has only one method, taking one argument of type Subscriber<T> and returning nothing. This function will be called every time the Observable.subscribe() method is invoked. Its argument, an instance of the Subscriber class, is in fact the observer, subscribing to the Observable instance (here, the Subscriber class and Observer interface have the same role). We'll be talking about them later in this chapter). We can invoke the onNext(), onError(), and onCompleted() methods on it, implementing our own custom behavior.

It's easier to comprehend this with an example. Let's implement a simple version of the Observable.from(Iterabale<T>) method:

<T> Observable...
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