RxScala: Reactive Extensions for Scala

This is a Scala adapter to RxJava.

End-of-Life (EOL) notice

This project is end of life and new releases will only contain bug-fixes and support for new Scala versions. For more information, see issue #244.

Alternatives to this library:

• RxJava (Java, similar API as RxScala)
• Reactor (Java)
• Akka Streams (Scala & Java)
• monix (Scala)
• cats-effect (Scala)
• fs2 (Scala)
• ZIO (Scala)

Usage

Example usage:

val o = Observable.interval(200 millis).take(5)
o.subscribe(n => println("n = " + n))
Observable.just(1, 2, 3, 4).reduce(_ + _)

For-comprehensions are also supported:

val first = Observable.just(10, 11, 12)
val second = Observable.just(10, 11, 12)
val booleans = for ((n1, n2) <- (first zip second)) yield (n1 == n2)

Further, this adaptor attempts to expose an API which is as Scala-idiomatic as possible. This means that certain methods have been renamed, their signature was changed, or static methods were changed to instance methods. Some examples:

 // instead of concat:
def ++[U >: T](that: Observable[U]): Observable[U]

// instance method instead of static:
def zip[U](that: Observable[U]): Observable[(T, U)] 

// the implicit evidence argument ensures that dematerialize can only be called on Observables of Notifications:
def dematerialize[U](implicit evidence: T <:< Notification[U]): Observable[U] 

// additional type parameter U with lower bound to get covariance right:
def onErrorResumeNext[U >: T](resumeFunction: Throwable => Observable[U]): Observable[U] 

// curried in Scala collections, so curry fold also here:
def fold[R](initialValue: R)(accumulator: (R, T) => R): Observable[R] 

// using Duration instead of (long timepan, TimeUnit duration):
def sample(duration: Duration): Observable[T] 

// called skip in Java, but drop in Scala
def drop(n: Int): Observable[T] 

// there's only mapWithIndex in Java, because Java doesn't have tuples:
def zipWithIndex: Observable[(T, Int)] 

// corresponds to Java's toList:
def toSeq: Observable[Seq[T]] 

// the implicit evidence argument ensures that switch can only be called on Observables of Observables:
def switch[U](implicit evidence: Observable[T] <:< Observable[Observable[U]]): Observable[U]

// Java's from becomes apply, and we use Scala Range
def apply(range: Range): Observable[Int]

// use Bottom type:
def never: Observable[Nothing] 

Also, the Scala Observable is fully covariant in its type parameter, whereas the Java Observable only achieves partial covariance due to limitations of Java's type system (or if you can fix this, your suggestions are very welcome).

For more examples, see RxScalaDemo.scala.

Scala code using Rx should only import members from rx.lang.scala and below.

Master Build Status

Communication

• GitHub Issues

Versioning

RxScala version	Compatible RxJava version
0.27.*	1.0.*
0.26.*	1.0.*
0.25.*	1.0.*
0.24.*	1.0.*
0.23.*[1]	1.0.*
0.22.0	1.0.0-rc.5
0.21.1	1.0.0-rc.3
0.X.Y (X < 21)[2]	0.X.Y

[1] You can use any release of RxScala 0.23 with any release of RxJava 1.0. E.g, use RxScala 0.23.0 with RxJava 1.0.1
[2] You should use the same version of RxScala with RxJava. E.g, use RxScala 0.20.1 with RxJava 0.20.1

If you are using APIs labeled with Experimental/Beta, or ExperimentalAPIs (deprecated since 0.25.0), which uses RxJava Beta/Experimental APIs, you should use the corresponding version of RxJava as the following table:

RxScala version	Compatible RxJava version
0.26.5 - 0.27.0	1.2.4+
0.26.4	1.2.2+
0.26.3	1.2.0+
0.26.2	1.1.6+
0.26.1	1.1.1+
0.26.0	1.1.0+
0.25.1	1.0.17+
0.25.0	1.0.11+
0.24.1	1.0.8+
0.24.0	1.0.7+

Full Documentation

RxScala:

• The API documentation can be found here.

Note that starting from version 0.15, rx.lang.scala.Observable is not a value class any more. ./Rationale.md explains why.

You can build the API documentation yourself by running sbt doc in the RxScala root directory. Open target/scala-2.11/api/index.html to display it.

RxJava:

• Wiki
• Javadoc

Binaries

Binaries and dependency information for Maven, Ivy, Gradle and others can be found at http://search.maven.org.

Example for sbt:

libraryDependencies += "io.reactivex" %% "rxscala" % "0.27.0"

and for Maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>io.reactivex</groupId>
    <artifactId>rxscala_${scala.compat.version}</artifactId>
    <version>0.27.0</version>
</dependency>

and for Ivy:

<dependency org="io.reactivex" name="rxscala_${scala.compat.version}" rev="0.27.0" />

Build

To build you need sbt:

$ git clone [email protected]:ReactiveX/RxScala.git
$ cd RxScala
$ TRAVIS_TAG=1.0.0-RC1 sbt package

Use TRAVIS_TAG to set the version of the package.

You can also run the examples from within sbt:

$ sbt examples/run

When you see the list of available App objects pick the one you want to execute.

Multiple main classes detected, select one to run:

 [1] AsyncWikiErrorHandling
 [2] SyncObservable
 [3] AsyncObservable
 [4] AsyncWiki
 [5] Transforming

Enter number:

Bugs and Feedback

For bugs, questions and discussions please use the Github Issues.

LICENSE

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.