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C++ Reactive Programming

By : Praseed Pai, Peter Abraham
Book Image

C++ Reactive Programming

By: Praseed Pai, Peter Abraham

Overview of this book

Reactive programming is an effective way to build highly responsive applications with an easy-to-maintain code base. This book covers the essential functional reactive concepts that will help you build highly concurrent, event-driven, and asynchronous applications in a simpler and less error-prone way. C++ Reactive Programming begins with a discussion on how event processing was undertaken by different programming systems earlier. After a brisk introduction to modern C++ (C++17), you’ll be taken through language-level concurrency and the lock-free programming model to set the stage for our foray into the Functional Programming model. Following this, you’ll be introduced to RxCpp and its programming model. You’ll be able to gain deep insights into the RxCpp library, which facilitates reactive programming. You’ll learn how to deal with reactive programming using Qt/C++ (for the desktop) and C++ microservices for the Web. By the end of the book, you will be well versed with advanced reactive programming concepts in modern C++ (C++17).
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Creating Observables from the scratch


So far, we have written code that create an Observable Stream from a range object or STL containers. Let's see how we can create an Observable Stream from the scratch. Well, almost:

// ObserverFromScratch.cpp 
#include "rxcpp/rx.hpp" 
#include "rxcpp/rx-test.hpp" 
int main() { 
      auto ints = rxcpp::observable<>::create<int>( 
                  [](rxcpp::subscriber<int> s){ 
                       s.on_next(1); 
                       s.on_next(4); 
                       s.on_next(9); 
                       s.on_completed(); 
                 }); 
    ints.subscribe( [](int v){printf("OnNext: %dn", v);}, 
                             [](){printf("OnCompletedn");}); 
} 

The preceding program calls the on_ext method to emit a series of numbers that are perfect squares. Those numbers (1,4,9) will be printed to the console.

Concatenating Observable Streams

We can concatenate two Streams to form a new Stream and this can be handy in some...