[RxJS] Reactive Programming - New requests from refresh clicks -- merge()

Posted 2020-06-19 Answer1215

Now we want each time we click refresh button, we will get new group of users. So we need to get the refresh button click event stream:

var refreshButton = document.querySelector(‘.refresh‘);
var refreshClickStream = Rx.Observable.fromEvent(refreshButton, ‘click‘);

 

Then each time refreshClickStream happens, we will get users request url:

var requestOnRefreshStream = refreshClickStream
  .map(ev => {
    var randomOffset = Math.floor(Math.random()*500);
    return ‘https://api.github.com/users?since=‘ + randomOffset;
  });

 

And we use this url to get json object:

var responseStream = requestOnRefreshStream
  .flatMap(requestUrl =>
    Rx.Observable.fromPromise(jQuery.getJSON(requestUrl))
  );

 

 

But the problem here is when the page loaded, we haven‘t click refresh button yet, therefore there is no data fetched fromt the server.

So we need to have a stream when the page loaded:

var startupRequestStream = Rx.Observable.just(‘https://api.github.com/users‘);

 

Then we can merge startUpRequestStream with requestOnRefreshStream:

var responseStream = requestOnRefreshStream
  .merge(startupRequestStream)
  .flatMap(requestUrl =>
    Rx.Observable.fromPromise(jQuery.getJSON(requestUrl))
  );

 

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//merge
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