You learn something new every day. As this always been the way that Rx
worked (the locking part)? I haven't used Rx for several years, so I may be
off in my assumptions.

Timothy


On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Matthew Podwysocki <
matthew.podwyso...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You can easily do bi-directional communication using Rx, but it's
> involving two Subjects, which are both Observables and Observers, or any
> flavor thereof Subjects whether Replay, Async, Behavior, or Buffered or
> Controlled (for backpressure coming soon).
>
> var subject1 = new Rx.Subject();
> var subject2 = new Rx.Subject();
>
> var sub1 = subject1.subscribe(subject2);
> var sub2 = subject2.subscribe(subject1);
>
> And yes, back to Timothy's point, it is not possible in Rx to have
> multiple people calling onNext at a single time as we have locks around
> that kind of behavior, so there is no chance for overlapping onNext calls,
> and have the strict grammar enforced of 0-N onNext calls with an optional
> onError or onCompleted but not both.  Once the onError or onCompleted calls
> have been fired, no onNext values can be fired.  You can get around that
> behavior in a number of ways with retry, catch, or even onErrorResumeNext
> so instead of terminating the entire sequence, you can go to another
> sequence or retry the current one.
>
> Matt
>
>
>> Having used both I would agree that CSP is more general and when you
>> need to do custom logic it tends to be easier, IME, than Rx. Another key
>> difference is that Rx is only about one way communication within a
>> single subscription.  Once you need to have bi-directional communication
>> CSP is a better tool for the job.
>>
>> -Ben
>>
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