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Learning RxJava - Second Edition

By : Nick Samoylov, Thomas Nield
Book Image

Learning RxJava - Second Edition

By: Nick Samoylov, Thomas Nield

Overview of this book

RxJava is not just a popular library for building asynchronous and event-based applications; it also enables you to create a cleaner and more readable code base. In this book, you’ll cover the core fundamentals of reactive programming and learn how to design and implement reactive libraries and applications. Learning RxJava will help you understand how reactive programming works and guide you in writing your first example in reactive code. You’ll get to grips with the workings of Observable and Subscriber, and see how they are used in different contexts using real-world use cases. The book will also take you through multicasting and caching to help prevent redundant work with multiple Observers. You’ll then learn how to create your own RxJava operators by reusing reactive logic. As you advance, you’ll explore effective tools and libraries to test and debug RxJava code. Finally, you’ll delve into RxAndroid extensions and use Kotlin features to streamline your Android apps. By the end of this book, you'll become proficient in writing reactive code in Java and Kotlin to build concurrent applications, including Android applications.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Foundations of Reactive Programming in Java
5
Section 2: Reactive Operators
12
Section 3: Integration of RxJava applications
Appendix B: Functional Types
Appendix E: Understanding Schedulers

Error recovery operators

Exceptions can occur almost anywhere in the chain of the Observable operators, and we already know about the onError event that is communicated down the Observable chain to the Observer. After that, the subscription terminates and no more emissions occur.

But sometimes, we want to intercept exceptions before they get to the Observer and attempt some form of recovery. We can also pretend that the error never happened and expect to continue processing the emissions.

However, a more productive approach to error handling would be to attempt resubscribing or switch to an alternate source Observable. And if you find that none of the error recovery operators meet your needs, the chances are you can compose one yourself.

For demonstration examples, let's divide 10 by each emitted integer value, where one of the values is 0. This will result in a / by zero...