Use RxJava and Retrofit to iterate through list and augment results based on subqueries

Question

I\'m using retrofit and I feel like rxjava (with retrolambda) would be a good fit for the following flow:

1. get list of widgets (http)

2. for each widget

Answer 1

You could insert doOnNext at certain points of the stream to add side-effects:

apiService.getWidgets(token)
.flatMapIterable(v -> v)
.flatMap(w -> 
    apiService.getArticles(token, w.type)
    .flatMapIterable(a -> a)
    .doOnNext(a -> db.insert(a))
    .doOnNext(a -> {
         w.articleName = a.name;
         w.articleUrl = a.url;
    })
    .takeLast(1)
    .map(a -> w)
)
.toList()
.subscribe(
    modifiedWidgets -> saveWidgets(modifiedWidgets),
    throwable -> processWidgetError(throwable)
);

Here is runnable example of this.