RxJava: buffer items until some condition is true for current item

Question

Here\'s a snippet I\'m trying to figure out:

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Answer 1

If I understand correctly, you want to buffer until some predicate allows it based on the items. You can do this with a complicated set of operators but perhaps its easier to just write a custom operator:

public final class BufferUntil 
implements Operator, T>{

    final Func1 boundaryPredicate;

    public BufferUntil(Func1 boundaryPredicate) {
        this.boundaryPredicate = boundaryPredicate;
    }

    @Override
    public Subscriber call(
            Subscriber> child) {
        BufferWhileSubscriber parent = 
                new BufferWhileSubscriber(child);
        child.add(parent);
        return parent;
    }

    final class BufferWhileSubscriber extends Subscriber {
        final Subscriber> actual;

        List buffer = new ArrayList<>();

        /**
         * @param actual
         */
        public BufferWhileSubscriber(
                Subscriber> actual) {
            this.actual = actual;
        }

        @Override
        public void onNext(T t) {
            buffer.add(t);
            if (boundaryPredicate.call(t)) {
                actual.onNext(buffer);
                buffer = new ArrayList<>();
            }
        }

        @Override
        public void onError(Throwable e) {
            buffer = null;
            actual.onError(e);
        }

        @Override
        public void onCompleted() {
            List b = buffer;
            buffer = null;
            if (!b.isEmpty()) {
                actual.onNext(b);
            }
            actual.onCompleted();
        }
    }
}