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RxJava - ReplaySubject only emitting data twice

I am new to ReactiveX and I have a case where I want my observable to emit data to a late subscriber(whenever the observer subscribes, observable should emit the same data that it emitted previously). I made this Observable class that provide ReplaySubject's same instance to all observers (it is singleton class).
public class AccountsObservable {
private static ConnectableObservable<String> hotObservable;
private static AccountsObservable accountsObservable;
public static AccountsObservable getObject() {
if (accountsObservable == null) {
accountsObservable = new AccountsObservable();
}
return accountsObservable;
}
public ConnectableObservable<String> getObservable() {
if (hotObservable == null) {
Observable<String> observable = ReplaySubject.create(new ObservableOnSubscribe<String>() {
#Override
public void subscribe(ObservableEmitter<String> emitter) throws Exception {
emitter.onNext("XYZ");
emitter.onComplete();
}
});
hotObservable = observable.replay();//publish
}
return hotObservable;
}
}
Similarly, this is the observer class that creates new observer instance.
public class AccountsObserver {
AccountsFetchListener listener;
public AccountsObserver(AccountsFetchListener listener) {
this.listener = listener;
}
public Observer<String> getObserver() {
return new Observer<String>() {
#Override
public void onSubscribe(Disposable d) {
}
#Override
public void onNext(String accounts) {
listener.onSuccess(accounts);
}
#Override
public void onError(Throwable e) {
listener.onFailure();
}
#Override
public void onComplete() {
}
};
}
public interface AccountsFetchListener {
void onSuccess(String accounts);
void onFailure();
}
}
Here is the function where I test these observables
private void testObs() {
ConnectableObservable<String> observable = AccountsObservable.getObject().getObservable();
Observer<String> observer = new AccountsObserver(new AccountsObserver.AccountsFetchListener() {
#Override
public void onSuccess(String accounts) {
Log.e("DATA -> ", accounts);
}
#Override
public void onFailure() {
}
}).getObserver();
observable.subscribe(observer);
observable.connect();
}
I called this function "testObs()" 5 times but it emitted data only 2 times. The problem seems to be in AccountsObservable class where I provide ReplaySUbject's instance. Thanks

Your code runs fine as it is, your logs are being suppressed in logcat as per this:
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You can avoid this behaviour by whitelisting your app for logcat:
adb logcat -P '<pid or uid of your app>'

How to throw error from completable

I am a beginner for rxjava,room and mvvm architecture.I am trying to fetch a user from room database, using Rxjava.
when I get user successfully I want to show a toast and start another activity. and in case of failure, I will show an error message in text input layout.
I have try to do that using following code.
in my Activity, I have a method authorizeUser() which is called on button click.
private void authorizeUser() {
loginViewModel.checkInDb()
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribe(new CompletableObserver() {
#Override
public void onSubscribe(Disposable d) {
}
#Override
public void onComplete() {
Log.e("Action", "Complete");
showToast();
startAnotherActivity();
}
#Override
public void onError(Throwable e) {
Log.e("Action", "error");
showError();
}
});
}
In my ViewModel
public Completable checkInDb() {
Completable completable= Completable.fromAction(() ->
userDataSource.getSingleRecordFromName(name.get(), password.get())
.subscribe(new SingleObserver<User>() {
#Override
public void onSubscribe(Disposable d) {
isLoading.set(true);
}
#Override
public void onSuccess(User user) {
preference.save(Constants.CURRENT_USER, user)
.subscribe();
isLoading.set(false);
isComplete=true;
Log.e("got","success");
}
#Override
public void onError(Throwable e) {
isLoading.set(false);
passwordError.postValue(new Error("Username or password is incorrect"));
Log.e("got","failure");
isComplete=false;
}
}));
return completable;
}
in UserDataSource class
public Single<User> getSingleRecordFromName(String strName) {
return daoAccess.getSingleRecord(strName);
}
and in DaoAccess class
public Single<User> getSingleRecordFromName(String strName) {
return daoAccess.getSingleRecord(strName);
}
Using above code, onComplete method is always called in activity, weather in view model, user fetched successfully or not
But what I want to do is, I want to throw an error or send a notification to the activity when there is error thrown (or on Error method is called in viewmodel). so that I can display error on my activity.
May be my question can be silly, but I am new to this. Please help me.

Although it would be better to maybe wrap the response in LiveData so you would get the subscription/lifecycle "for free", unless there is a specific need to have a completable on the UI, which I don't really any reason for it).
I would instead change your Dao to return Observable instead of Single, and then (one again this is not the optimal solution, should wrap into LiveData) you can return that Observable to the UI:
public Observable checkInDb() {
return userDataSource.getSingleRecordFromName(name.get(), password.get())
.subscribe(new SingleObserver<User>() {
#Override
public void onSubscribe(Disposable d) {
isLoading.set(true);
}
#Override
public void onSuccess(User user) {
preference.save(Constants.CURRENT_USER, user)
.subscribe();
isLoading.set(false);
isComplete=true;
Log.e("got","success");
}
#Override
public void onError(Throwable e) {
isLoading.set(false);
passwordError.postValue(new Error("Username or password is incorrect"));
Log.e("got","failure");
isComplete=false;
}
}));
}
And change your Daos
in UserDataSource class
public Observable<User> getSingleRecordFromName(String strName) {
return daoAccess.getSingleRecord(strName);
}
and in DaoAccess class
public Observable<User> getSingleRecordFromName(String strName) {
return daoAccess.getSingleRecord(strName);
}
So now your view can checkInDb() and handle these cases.
PS: I'm assuming this daoAccess is not an API call rather a local DB (probably Room).

How to extract from rxJava and put it on realm offline database?

I need to download a long list of 30k airports and put it on a offline database.
I made this code to download the json from the web:
bFetch.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v)
{
Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
.addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
.addCallAdapterFactory(RxJavaCallAdapterFactory.create())
.baseUrl(GithubService.SERVICE_ENDPOINT).build();
GithubService service = retrofit.create(GithubService.class);
service.getAirport()
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.newThread())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribe(new Subscriber<List<Airport>>() {
#Override
public void onCompleted()
{
bClear.setText("OK");
}
#Override
public void onError(Throwable e) {
}
#Override
public void onNext(List<Airport> airports)
{
Log.d("msh",String.valueOf(airports.size()));
}
});
}
});
and it works very well, but if I want to extract only one object, like map or a flatMap, it gives me this:
service.getAirport()
.map(new Func1<List<Airport>, Airport>()
{
#Override
public Airport call(List<Airport> airports) {
return null;
}
})
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.newThread())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribe(new Subscriber<List<Airport>>() {
#Override
public void onCompleted()
{
bClear.setText("OK");
}
#Override
public void onError(Throwable e) {
}
#Override
public void onNext(List<Airport> airports)
{
Log.d("msh",String.valueOf(airports.size()));
}
});
}
});
with the error:
Cannot resolve method 'subscribe(anonymous
rx.Subscriber>)
so:
what I have to do to solve it? My problem is that I don't understand very well rX and I have also a bit confusion
could I put data in realm database in map() method (if it works)?
Thank you

Since you're mapping from a List<Airport> to an Airport, you need to have a Subscriber<Airport> instead of Subscriber<List<Airport>>, along with the same change to the onNext method.

looks like it would compile with Java8 and RxJava2-RC5. I changed subscriber param from List to X and the onNext method from List to X. Maybe you coulde provide some more intel on your environment. Please notice that returning null is not possible anymore in RxJava2.
Furthermore notice that using newThread-Scheduler is not a good idea.
This scheduler simply starts a new thread every time it is requested
via subscri beOn() or observeOn() . newThread() is hardly ever a good
choice, not only because of the latency involved when starting a
thread, but also because this thread is not reused. --Tomasz Nurkiewicz from "Reactive Programming with RxJava"
Example-Impl with RxJava2-RC5
Observable.just(Arrays.asList("1", "2", "3"))
.map(new Function<List<String>, String>() {
#Override
public String apply(List<String> s) throws Exception {
return null;
}
}).subscribeOn(Schedulers.newThread())
.subscribe(new Observer<String>() {
#Override
public void onSubscribe(Disposable d) {
}
#Override
public void onNext(String value) {
}
#Override
public void onError(Throwable e) {
}
#Override
public void onComplete() {
}
});

AndroidRX - run method in background

I created simple activity with infinity progres bar, and I'am trying to run time consuming method using RxJava to prevent UI thread from blocking, but everytime UI thread is blocked. I think my solution has problem with emitting Observable. Can anyone help me? I'am begginer in RX.
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}
public void doSomething(View view) {
doHeavyStuff()
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.newThread())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.doOnNext(new Action1() {
#Override
public void call(Object o) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "FINISHED", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
})
.subscribe();
}
private Observable doHeavyStuff() {
for (int i = 0; i < 999999999; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < 2; j++) {
}
}
return Observable.just(1);
}

With RxJava2 a possible solution is:
Version with lambdas:
Single.fromCallable(() -> loadInBackground())
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribe((resultObject) -> { updateUi(resultObject) });
Version without lambdas:
Single.fromCallable(new Callable<Object>() {
#Override
public Object call() throws Exception {
return loadInBackground();
}
})
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribe(new Consumer<Object>() {
#Override
public void accept(Object resultObject) throws Exception {
updateUi(resultObject);
}
});
Example methods used above:
private Object loadInBackground() {
// some heavy load code
return resultObject;
}
private void updateUi(Object resultObject) {
// update your Views here
}

According to docs
Deprecated:
fromFunc0
Unnecessary now that Func0 extends Callable. Just call fromCallable(java.util.concurrent.Callable) instead.
So you could make the call in this way:
Observable.fromCallable(new Callable<Object>() {
#Override
public Object call() throws Exception {
return someMethod();
}
}).subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread()).subscribe(new Action1<Object>() {
#Override
public void call(Object object) {
}
});

Your doHeavyStuff() executes computation on calling thread, you just wrap your result into Observable.
In order to wrap computation into observable you should use defer
Observable.defer(new Func0<Observable<Integer>>() {
#Override
public Observable<Integer> call() {
return Observable.just(doHeavyStuff());
}
});
then you can specify threads by subscribeOn and observeOn methods

kotlin use below code to work in background
Single.fromCallable {
// method that run in background
}
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribe()

Also, you can use RxJavaAsyncUtil:
compile 'io.reactivex:rxjava-async-util:0.21.0'
Code:
Observable.fromFunc0(() -> doHeavyStuff())

A way define order of subscribers in RxJava?

I'm looking a way to define order(?) of observers.
#GET("/get_user_msgs")
Observable<PrivateMessagesResponse> getPrivateMessages(#QueryMap Map<String, String> params);
For example I gave a Observable from my Rest API created by Retrofit.
In my ListView I'm observing this Observable.
api.getPrivateMessages(params).subscribe(new Observer());
I also have an API wrapper for my Espresso tests and I'm subscribing to same Observable there. This way observer in API wrapper is called first and only then observer in ListView
is called.
public class IdlingWrapper implements Api, IdlingResource {
....
public IdlingWrapper(Api realApi) {
this.realApi = realApi;
}
...
public Observable<PrivateMessagesResponse> getPrivateMessages(#QueryMap Map<String, String> params); {
counter.incrementAndGet();
return wrapObservable(realApi.getPrivateMessages(params));
}
protected <T> Observable<T> wrapObservable(final Observable<PrivateMessagesResponse> observable) {
//what to do here?
}
}
Is there a way to force some observer to be notified after all others are done? Or something similar in that matter?
Something like
Observable observable = getObservable();
observable.subscribeAsLast(new LastObserver());
observable.subscribe(new ObserverA());
observable.subscribe(new ObserverB());
And so that ObserverA would be notified first, then ObserverB and only then LastObserver.
Or any other approach where I could find out when all registered observers were notified and completed.

I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do in IdlingWrapper, but I think the current implementation is very fragile.
I think the most important thing that needs to happen is to guarantee the observable can only be called once.
Here is a quick implementation to demonstrate that as well as my implementation of wrapObservable.
public class Test {
private static int counter = 0;
private static final List<Observable<?>> list = Collections.synchronizedList(new ArrayList<>());
protected static <T> Observable<T> wrapObservable(final Observable<T> original) {
// run atleast once???
synchronized (list) {
list.add(original);
}
return Observable.create(new Observable.OnSubscribe<Void>() {
#Override
public void call(Subscriber<? super Void> subscriber) {
synchronized (list) {
counter++;
if (!list.contains(original)) {
subscriber.onError(new Exception("You can only subscribe once!"));
return;
}
list.remove(original);
}
// Sleep to make it easier to see things happening...
try {
Thread.sleep(3000);
} catch (InterruptedException ignored) {
}
subscriber.onCompleted();
}
}).flatMap(new Func1<Void, Observable<? extends T>>() {
#Override
public Observable<? extends T> call(Void o) {
return original;
}
}).finallyDo(new Action0() {
#Override
public void call() {
synchronized (list) {
counter--;
if (list.size() == 0 && counter == 0) {
System.err.println("finally");
}
}
}
});
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
// running in io thread for simulating async call.
Observable<String> test = wrapObservable(Observable.from("TEST!!!!!!")).subscribeOn(Schedulers.io());
test.subscribe(new Observer<String>() {
#Override
public void onCompleted() {
System.err.println("completed");
}
#Override
public void onError(Throwable e) {
System.err.println("error");
}
#Override
public void onNext(String s) {
System.err.println("next");
}
});
// example of calling the same observable twice.
test.subscribe(new Observer<String>() {
#Override
public void onCompleted() {
System.err.println("completed");
}
#Override
public void onError(Throwable e) {
System.err.println("error");
}
#Override
public void onNext(String s) {
System.err.println("next");
}
});
}
Thread.sleep(10000);
}
}

It seems, that this worked just fine.
protected <T> Observable<T> wrapObservable(final Observable<T> original) {
return Observable.create(new Observable.OnSubscribeFunc<T>() {
#Override
public Subscription onSubscribe(final Observer<? super T> t1) {
original.subscribe(new Observer<T>() {
#Override
public void onCompleted() {
t1.onCompleted();
uiThreadHandler.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
counter.decrementAndGet();
notifyIdle();
}
});
}
#Override
public void onError(Throwable e) {
t1.onError(e);
uiThreadHandler.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
counter.decrementAndGet();
notifyIdle();
}
});
}
#Override
public void onNext(T args) {
t1.onNext(args);
}
});
return Subscriptions.empty();
}
});
}

If you want to just use built in RxJava methods to order your observers, you can use flatMap and range to turn each item into multiple items each with a priority and then filter on priority. Observers are ordered based on how they filter.
Here's a trivial example:
Observable<Pair<Integer, Object>> shared = RxView.clicks(findViewById(R.id.textView))
.flatMap(c -> Observable.range(0, 2).map(i -> Pair.create(i, c)))
.share();
shared.filter(p -> p.first == 1)
.map(p -> p.second)
.doOnSubscribe(c -> Log.d(TAG, "first subscribed doOnSubscribe"))
.subscribe(c -> Log.d(TAG, "first subscribed onNext"));
shared.filter(p -> p.first == 0)
.map(p -> p.second)
.doOnSubscribe(c -> Log.d(TAG, "second subscribed doOnSubscribe"))
.subscribe(c -> Log.d(TAG, "second subscribed onNext"));
If you are doing this all over the place