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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

Observers and their variants (Subscribers)


An Observer subscribes to an Observable and waits for events to be notified. Observers were already covered in the previous chapter. Hence, we will be focusing on Subscribers, which are a combination of Observers and subscriptions. A  Subscriber has the facility to unsubscribe from the Observer,where as  with a "vanilla"  Observer, you can only subscribe. The following program explain these concepts very well:

//---- Subscriber.cpp 
#include "rxcpp/rx.hpp" 
int main() { 
     //----- create a subscription object 
     auto subscription = rxcpp::composite_subscription(); 
     //----- Create a Subscription  
     auto subscriber = rxcpp::make_subscriber<int>( 
        subscription, 
        [&](int v){ 
            printf("OnNext: --%dn", v); 
            if (v == 3) 
                subscription.unsubscribe(); // Demonstrates Un Subscribes 
        }, 
        [](){ printf("OnCompletedn");}); 
 
    rxcpp::observable<>::create&lt...