RxJava applied [JavaDay Kyiv 2016]

RxJava Applied:
Concise Examples where It Shines
Igor Lozynskyi
JavaDay Kyiv - Oct 14-15, 2016
Software Engineer at GlobalLogic

Presentation’s home
https://github.com/aigor/rx-presentation

Outline
● RxJava vs Java 8 Streams
● RxJava usage example

Pre Java 8 data processing
interface Iterator<T> {
T next();
boolean hasNext();
void remove();
}

Pre Java 8 data processing
List<Employee> employees = service.getEmployees();
Map<Integer, List<Employee>> ageDistribution = new HashMap<>();
for (Employee employee : employees) {
if (employee.getAge() > 25){
List<Employee> thisAge = ageDistribution.get(employee.getAge());
if (thisAge != null){
thisAge.add(employee);
} else{
List<Employee> createThisAge = new ArrayList<>();
createThisAge.add(employee);
ageDistribution.put(employee.getAge(), createThisAge);
}
}
}
System.out.println(ageDistribution);

Java 8 Stream ...
● Connects data source and client
● Do not hold any data
● Implements map / filter / reduce pattern
● Enforces functional style of data processing

Stream collectors
Map<Integer, List<Employee>> ageDistribution = new HashMap<>();
for (Employee employee : employees) {
if (employee.getAge() > 25) {
List<Employee> thisAge = ageDistribution.get(employee.getAge());
if (thisAge != null){
thisAge.add(employee);
} else {
List<Employee> createThisAge = new ArrayList<>();
createThisAge.add(employee);
ageDistribution.put(employee.getAge(), createThisAge);
}
}
}

Stream collectors
Map<Integer, List<Employee>> ageDistribution =
employees.stream()
.filter(e -> e.getAge() > 25)
.collect(Collectors.groupingBy(Employee::getAge));

Stream collectors
Map<Integer, Long> ageDistribution =
employees.stream()
.filter(e -> e.getAge() > 25)
.collect(Collectors.groupingBy(
Employee::getAge,
Collectors.counting()
));

Stream sources
Stream<String> stream1 = Arrays.asList("A", "B").stream();
Stream<String> stream2 = Stream.of("Q", "P", "R");
IntStream chars = "some text".chars();
Stream<String> words
= Pattern.compile(" ").splitAsStream("some other text");

Non-standard stream sources
Can we use non-standard stream sources?
?

Stream generator
Stream
.generate(() -> UUID.randomUUID().toString())
.limit(4)
.forEach(System.out::println);

Spliterator interface
public interface Spliterator<T> {
boolean tryAdvance(Consumer<? super T> action);
Spliterator<T> trySplit();
long estimateSize();
int characteristics();
}

class RandomSpliterator implements Spliterator<String> {
public boolean tryAdvance(Consumer<? super String> action) {
action.accept(UUID.randomUUID().toString());
return true;
}
// for parallel streams
public Spliterator<String> trySplit() {
return null;
}
public long estimateSize() { return Long.MAX_VALUE; };
public int characteristics() { return NONNULL | DISTINCT; }
}

Generate sequence: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, ...
IntStream sequence =
IntStream.rangeClosed(1, 50)
.flatMap(i ->
IntStream.iterate(i, identity()).limit(i)
);
sequence.forEach(System.out::println);

Stream API - async processing
getEmployeeIds().stream()
.map(this::doHttpRequest)
.collect(Collectors.toList())
Output:
[main] processing request: c677c497
[main] processing request: 3b5320a9
[main] processing request: 9248b92e
[main] processing request: 97a68a53

.parallel()
Output:
[main] processing request: 7674da72
[ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-2] processing request: 747ae948
[ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-1] processing request: 33fe0bac
[ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-3] processing request: 812f69f3
[main] processing request: 11dda466
[ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-2] processing request: 12e22a10
[ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-1] processing request: e2b324f9
[ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-3] processing request: 8f9f8a97

ForkJoinPool forkJoinPool = new ForkJoinPool(80);
forkJoinPool.submit(() ->
.parallel()
).get();

Stream API has some limitations

Reactive Streams: what the difference

RxJava
http://reactivex.io
https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava
17,700 stars on GitHub

Short history
● From 2009 for .NET
● From 2013 for JVM (latest: 1.2.1, Oct 5, 2016)
● Now a lot of other languages

RxJava Observer
interface Observer<T> {
void onNext(T t);
void onCompleted();
void onError(Throwable e);
}

RxJava Subscription
interface Subscription {
void unsubscribe();
boolean isUnsubscribed();
}

Observable
● Central class in RxJava library
● It’s big: ~ 10k lines of code (with comments)
● It’s complex: ~ 100 static methods, ~ 150 non-static

Subscription sub =
Observable
.create(s -> {
s.onNext("A");
s.onNext("B");
s.onCompleted();
})
.subscribe(m -> log.info("Message received: " + m),
e -> log.warning("Error: " + e.getMessage()),
() -> log.info("Done!"));
Output:
Message received: A
Message received: B
Done!

Observable<Integer> empty = Observable.empty();
Observable<Integer> never = Observable.never();
Observable<Integer> error = Observable.error(exception);
Observable useful for tests
never() - never emit anything (no data, no errors)

public static <T, Resource> Observable<T> using(
final Func0<Resource> resourceFactory,
final Func1<Resource, Observable<T>> observableFactory,
final Action1<Resource> disposeAction
){ }
Observable from resource

Observable
.from(Arrays.asList(1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 12, 3, 6, 7, 8))
.filter(i -> (i > 3 && i < 8))
.forEach(System.out::println);
Output:
5
7
6
7

Time series
Observable<Long> timer = Observable.timer(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
Observable<Long> interval = Observable.interval(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
timer.forEach(System.out::println);
interval.forEach(System.out::println);
Output:
Process finished with exit code 0

Time series
Observable<Long> timer = Observable.timer(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
Observable<Long> interval = Observable.interval(1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
timer.forEach(i -> System.out.println(currentThread().getName() + " - " + i));
interval.forEach(i -> System.out.println(currentThread().getName() + " - " + i));
Output:
RxComputationThreadPool-2 - 0
Process finished with exit code 0
Thread.sleep(2000);

Schedulers
public final class Schedulers {
public static Scheduler immediate() {...}
public static Scheduler trampoline() {...}
public static Scheduler newThread() {...}
public static Scheduler computation() {...}
public static Scheduler io() {...}
public static TestScheduler test() {...}
public static Scheduler from(Executor executor) {...}
}

Schedulers
Observable.from("one", "two", "three", "four", "five")
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.newThread())
.observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
.subscribe(/* an Observer */);

Merge
Observable<Integer> odds = Observable
.just(1, 3, 5).subscribeOn(Schedulers.io());
Observable<Integer> evens = Observable.just(2, 4, 6);
Observable.merge(odds, evens)
.subscribe(
System.out::println,
System.err::println,
() -> System.out.println("Finished"));

Zip
Observable<String> odds = Observable.just("A", "B", "C", "D");
Observable<Integer> evens = Observable.just(2, 4, 6);
Observable.zip(odds, evens, (a, b) -> a + "-" + b)
.subscribe(
System.out::println,
System.err::println,
() -> System.out.println("Finished"));
Output:
A-2
B-4
C-6
Finished

Cold & Hot Observables
● Cold Observable emits events only having subscriber
● Hot Observable emits events even without subscribers

Backpressure
Backpreasure is a way to slow down emission of elements
It can act on observing side
Strategies:
● Buffering items (buffer, window)
● Skipping items (sampling, throttling, etc)
● Request for specific number of elements

Backpressure: request for elements
public interface Producer {
void request(long n);
}

Stream API vs RxJava
RxJava:
● allows to process data in chosen thread, this is useful for IO,
computations, specialized threads (GUI threads),
● allows synchronization on clocks and application events,
● works in push mode, producer initiates data transfer, but consumer may
control data flow via backpressure.
Stream API:
● tuned for hot data processing,
● good for parallel computation,
● has rich set of collectors for data.

Shakespeare Plays Scrabble Benchmark (throughput)
Non-Parallel Streams 44.995 ± 1.718 ms/op
Parallel Streams 14.095 ± 0.616 ms/op
RxJava 310.378 ± 9.688 ms/op
RxJava (2.0.0-RC4) 156.334 ± 8.423 ms/op
Performance
Based on JMH benchmark by Jose Paumard

Scenarios where RxJava shines
● Observables are better callbacks (easily wrap callbacks)
● Observables are highly composable (on contrast with callbacks)
● Provide async stream of data (on contrast with CompletableFuture)
● Observables can handle errors (have retry / backup strategies)
● Give complete control over running threads
● Good for managing IO rich application workflows
● Perfect for Android development (no Java 8 required, retrolambda compatible)
● Netflix uses RxJava for most their internal APIs

Request flow
Created with draw.io

Stream API and RxJava are friends!
You can easily build Observable from Stream
Iterator<T> iterator = ...;
Observable<T> observable = Observable.from(() -> iterator);
You can map Observable to Stream by implementing adapter
public static<T> Iterator<T> of(Observable<? extends T> ob){
class Adapter implements Iterator<T>, Consumer<T> {
...
}
return new Adapter();
}

External libraries that work with RxJava
● hystrix - latency and fault tolerance bulkheading library
● camel RX - to reuse Apache Camel components
● rxjava-http-tail - allows you to follow logs over HTTP
● mod-rxvertx - extension for VertX that provides support Rx
● rxjava-jdbc - use RxJava with JDBC to stream ResultSets
● rtree - immutable in-memory R-tree and R*-tree with RxJava
● and many more ...

RxJava is not new
JDeferred
CompletableFuture<T>
Scala.Rx
Scala Actors
Spring Integration

What’s around?
● Google Agera - reactive streams for Android by Google
● Project Reactor - flow API implementation by Pivotal & Spring
● Akka-Streams - Akka based streams
● Monix - Scala based implementation of Reactive Streams
● Vert.x, Lagom - if you want more than streams

Let’s build something with RxJava

Use case: Stream of tweets
Created with Balsamiq Mockups

Twitter API
Twitter Stream API (WebSocket alike):
● Doc: https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview
● Library: com.twitter:hbc-core:2.2.0
Twitter REST API:
● GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name=jeeconf
● GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=from:jeeconf

Let’s look at entities
class Tweet {
String text;
int favorite_count;
String author;
int author_followers;
}
class Profile {
String screen_name;
String name;
String location;
int statuses_count;
int followers_count;
}
class UserWithTweet {
Profile profile;
Tweet tweet;
}

Profile getUserProfile(String screenName) {
ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
return (Profile) om.readValue(om.readTree(
Unirest.get(API_BASE_URL + "users/show.json")
.queryString("screen_name", screenName)
.header("Authorization", bearerAuth(authToken.get()))
.asString()
.getBody()),
Profile.class);
}
Get user profile synchronously

Get user profile asynchronously
Observable<Profile> getUserProfile(String screenName) {
return Observable.fromCallable(() -> {
.asString()
.getBody()),
Profile.class);
});
}

Add some errors handling
Observable<Profile> getUserProfile(String screenName) {
if (authToken.isPresent()) {
return Observable.fromCallable(() -> {
.asString()
.getBody()),
Profile.class);
}).doOnCompleted(() -> log("getUserProfile completed for: " + screenName));
} else {
return Observable.error(new RuntimeException("Can not connect to twitter"));
}
}

Let’s do something concurrently
Illustration: Arsenal Firearms S.r.l.

RxJava applied [JavaDay Kyiv 2016]

Get data concurrently
Observable<UserWithTweet> getUserAndPopularTweet(String author){
return Observable.just(author)
.flatMap(u -> {
Observable<Profile> profile = client.getUserProfile(u)
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.io());
Observable<Tweet> tweet = client.getUserRecentTweets(u)
.defaultIfEmpty(null)
.reduce((t1, t2) ->
t1.retweet_count > t2.retweet_count ? t1 : t2)
return Observable.zip(profile, tweet, UserWithTweet::new);
});
}

Let’s subscribe on stream of tweets!

streamClient.getStream("RxJava", "JavaDay", "Java")

streamClient.getStream("RxJava", "JavaDay", "Java", "Trump", "Hillary")

streamClient.getStream("RxJava", "JavaDay", "Java", "Trump", "Hillary")
.distinctUntilChanged()
.map(p -> p.author)
.flatMap(name -> getUserAndPopularTweet(name))
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
.observeOn(Schedulers.immediate())
.subscribe(p -> log.info("The most popular tweet of user "
+ p.profile.name + ": " + p.tweet));
.scan((u1, u2) -> u1.author_followers > u2.author_followers ? u1 : u2)

streamClient.getStream("RxJava", "JavaDay", "Java", "Trump")
.scan((u1, u2) -> u1.author_followers > u2.author_followers ? u1 : u2)
.distinctUntilChanged()
.map(p -> p.author)
.flatMap(name -> {
Observable<Profile> profile = client.getUserProfile(name)
Observable<Tweet> tweet = client.getUserRecentTweets(name)
.defaultIfEmpty(null)
.reduce((t1, t2) ->
t1.retweet_count > t2.retweet_count ? t1 : t2)
return Observable.zip(profile, tweet, UserWithTweet::new);
})
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
.observeOn(Schedulers.immediate())
.subscribe(p -> log.info("The most popular tweet of user "
+ p.profile.name + ": " + p.tweet));

@Test public void correctlyJoinsHttpResults() throws Exception {
String testUser = "testUser";
Profile profile = new Profile("u1", "Name", "USA", 10, 20, 30);
Tweet tweet1 = new Tweet("text-1", 10, 20, testUser, 30);
Tweet tweet2 = new Tweet("text-2", 40, 50, testUser, 30);
TwitterClient client = mock(TwitterClient.class);
when(client.getUserProfile(testUser)).thenReturn(Observable.just(profile));
when(client.getUserRecentTweets(testUser)).thenReturn(Observable.just(tweet1, tweet2));
TestSubscriber<UserWithTweet> testSubscriber = new TestSubscriber<>();
new Solutions().getUserAndPopularTweet(client, testUser).subscribe(testSubscriber);
testSubscriber.awaitTerminalEvent();
assertEquals(singletonList(new UserWithTweet(profile, tweet2)),
testSubscriber.getOnNextEvents());
}

● API is big (150+ methods to remember)
● Requires to understand underlying magic
● Hard to debug
● Don’t forget about back pressure
Conclusions: pitfalls

● It is functional, it is reactive*
● Good for integration scenarios
● Allows to control execution threads
● Easy to compose workflows
● Easy to integrate into existing solutions
● Easy Ok to test
* RxJava is inspired by FRP (Functional Reactive Programming), but doesn’t implement it
Conclusions: strength

● RxJava 2.0 in few weeks!
● RxJava 2.0 is better and faster
● RxJava 2.0 is Java 9 Flow API compatible
● We will see more and more reactive streams
Conclusions: future

Q&A
https://github.com/aigor/rx-presentation

Thanks
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aigooor@gmail.com

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