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Reactive Programming in Kotlin

You're reading from   Reactive Programming in Kotlin Design and build non-blocking, asynchronous Kotlin applications with RXKotlin, Reactor-Kotlin, Android, and Spring

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788473026
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rivu Chakraborty Rivu Chakraborty
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Preface 1. A Short Introduction to Reactive Programming 2. Functional Programming with Kotlin and RxKotlin FREE CHAPTER 3. Observables, Observers, and Subjects 4. Introduction to Backpressure and Flowables 5. Asynchronous Data Operators and Transformations 6. More on Operators and Error Handling 7. Concurrency and Parallel Processing in RxKotlin with Schedulers 8. Testing RxKotlin Applications 9. Resource Management and Extending RxKotlin 10. Introduction to Web Programming with Spring for Kotlin Developers 11. REST APIs with Spring JPA and Hibernate 12. Reactive Kotlin and Android

Retrofit 2 for API calls

Retrofit by Square is one of the most famous and widely used REST clients for Android. It internally uses OkHTTP for HTTP and network calls. The word REST client makes it different from other networking libraries in Android. While most of the networking libraries (Volley, OkHTTP, and others) focus on synchronous/asynchronous requests, prioritization, ordered requests, concurrent/parallel requests, caching, and more. Retrofit gives more attention to making network calls and parsing data more like method calls. It simply turns your HTTP API into a Java interface. And it doesn't even try to solve network problems by itself, but delegates this to OkHTTP internally.

So, how does it transform an HTTP API into a Java interfaces? Retrofit simply uses a converter to serialize/deserialize POJO (plain old Java object) classes into/from JSON or XML. Now, what...

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