It’s actually tricker than it sounds. Using Delay doesn’t work because the values will still happen in bulk, only slightly delayed. Using Interval with either CombineLatest or Zip doesn’t work, since the former will cause source values to be skipped and the latter will buffer interval values. I think the new Drain operator (added in … Read more
Here’s my approach. It’s similar to others that have gone before, but it doesn’t suffer the over-zealous window production problem. The desired function works a lot like Observable.Throttle but emits qualifying events as soon as they arrive rather than delaying for the duration of the throttle or sample period. For a given duration after a … Read more
This is possible by combining the built-in Window and Throttle methods of Observable. First, let’s solve the simpler problem where we ignore the maximum count condition: public static IObservable<IList<T>> BufferUntilInactive<T>(this IObservable<T> stream, TimeSpan delay) { var closes = stream.Throttle(delay); return stream.Window(() => closes).SelectMany(window => window.ToList()); } The powerful Window method did the heavy lifting. Now … Read more
Here is a method that is similar to Dave’s but uses Sample instead (which is more appropriate than buffer). I’ve included a similar extension method to the one I added to Dave’s answer. The extension: public static IDisposable SubscribeWithoutOverlap<T>(this IObservable<T> source, Action<T> action) { var sampler = new Subject<Unit>(); var sub = source. Sample(sampler). ObserveOn(Scheduler.ThreadPool). … Read more
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The key to this implementation of a back off retry is deferred observables. A deferred observable won’t execute its factory until someone subscribes to it. And it will invoke the factory for each subscription, making it ideal for our retry scenario. Assume we have a method which triggers a network request. public IObservable<WebResponse> SomeApiMethod() { … Read more
You can append this function liberally to your Rx operators while you are developing them to see what’s happening: public static IObservable<T> Spy<T>(this IObservable<T> source, string opName = null) { opName = opName ?? “IObservable”; Console.WriteLine(“{0}: Observable obtained on Thread: {1}”, opName, Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId); return Observable.Create<T>(obs => { Console.WriteLine(“{0}: Subscribed to on Thread: {1}”, opName, Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId); … Read more
From: Anton Moiseev’s Book “Angular Development with Typescript, Second Edition.” : Hot and cold observables There are two types of observables: hot and cold. The main difference is that a cold observable creates a data producer for each subscriber, whereas a hot observable creates a data producer first, and each subscriber gets the data from … Read more
Ok, If we ignore my dogmatic ways and ignore “subjects are good/bad” all together. Let us look at the problem space. I bet you either have 1 of 2 styles of system you need to ingrate to. The system raises an event or a call back when a message arrives You need to poll the … Read more
Here is an implementation of the ExhaustMap operator. The source observable is projected to an IObservable<Task<TResult>>, where each subsequent task is either the previous one if it’s still running, or otherwise a new task associated with the current item. Repeated occurrences of the same task are then removed with the DistinctUntilChanged operator, and finally the … Read more