Queue like Subject in RxJava

Question

I\'m looking for a Subject (or something similar) that can:

1. Could receive items and hold them in a queue or buffer if there are no subscribers
2. Once we

Answer 1

I achieve the expected result creating a customized Observable that wraps a publish subject and handles emission cache if there's no subscribers attached. Check it out.

public class ExampleUnitTest {
    @Test
    public void testSample() throws Exception {
        MyCustomObservable myCustomObservable = new MyCustomObservable();

        myCustomObservable.emit("1");
        myCustomObservable.emit("2");
        myCustomObservable.emit("3");

        Subscription subscription = myCustomObservable.subscribe(System.out::println);

        myCustomObservable.emit("4");
        myCustomObservable.emit("5");

        subscription.unsubscribe();

        myCustomObservable.emit("6");
        myCustomObservable.emit("7");
        myCustomObservable.emit("8");

        myCustomObservable.subscribe(System.out::println);
    }
}

class MyCustomObservable extends Observable {
    private static PublishSubject publishSubject = PublishSubject.create();
    private static List valuesCache = new ArrayList<>();

    protected MyCustomObservable() {
        super(subscriber -> {
            Observable.from(valuesCache)
                    .doOnNext(subscriber::onNext)
                    .doOnCompleted(valuesCache::clear)
                    .subscribe();

            publishSubject.subscribe(subscriber);
        });
    }

    public void emit(String value) {
        if (publishSubject.hasObservers()) {
            publishSubject.onNext(value);
        } else {
            valuesCache.add(value);
        }
    }
}

Hope that it helps!

Best Regards.