[jira] [Created] (CXF-6833) support RxJava Observable in return values as a more composeable alternative to Future

["james strachan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

james strachan created CXF-6833:
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             Summary: support RxJava Observable<T> in return values as a more composeable alternative to Future<T>
                 Key: CXF-6833
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-6833
             Project: CXF
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: james strachan


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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