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Sergey Beryozkin commented on CXF-6833:
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Thanks, FYI, this is what was proposed for JAX-RS 2.1:
https://github.com/spericas/api/blob/master/jaxrs-api/src/test/java/javax/ws/rs/core/RxClientTest.java
I haven't looked deeply into it yet due to the 2.1 process being quite slow,
but from what I understood, that API was designed to work the alternative 3rd
party libraries too. I hope we can start reasonably soon (few months time
frame) with the client side first and then move to supporting it as an
extension on the server side. I don't mind starting before the spec produces
something more specific, it is just difficult to allocate a chunk of time for
it right now.
> support RxJava Observable<T> in return values as a more composeable
> alternative to Future<T>
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> Key: CXF-6833
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-6833
> Project: CXF
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: james strachan
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> when invoking multiple REST services concurrently in a microservice kinda
> world it can be really helpful to use RxJava's Observable<T> so that you can
> easily compose concurrent asynchronous requests together.
> e.g. see this blog:
> http://joluet.github.io/blog/2014/07/07/rxjava-retrofit/
> Its basically about using RxJava's Observable<T> as the result type; which is
> a little like a Future<T> but can handle streams of values and is composable.
> It would be great to do this both on the client and server side; as a server
> may invoke multiple asynchronous back ends and return a composition of
> results etc.
> e.g.
> {code}
> @GET("/session.json")
> Observable<LoginResponse> login();
> @GET("/user.json")
> Observable<UserState> getUserState();
> {code}
> you can then use the Observable<T> composition methods to join / flatMap to
> compose multiple requests across different microservice invocations together
> with timeouts etc e.g. to compose the latest from 2 calls:
> {code}
> Observable.combineLatest(api.fetchUserProfile(), api.getUserState(),
> (user, userStatus) -> new Pair<>(user, userStatus));
> {code}
> and you're done! There's support for timeouts and other kinds of composition
> mechanisms too.
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