How to stop and resume Observable.interval emiting ticks

Question

This will emit a tick every 5 seconds.

Observable.interval(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS, Schedulers.io())
            .subscribe(tick -> Log.d(TAG, "tick = &qu         


        

Answer 1

Here is a another way to do this, I think.
When you check the source code, you will find interval() using class OnSubscribeTimerPeriodically. The key code below.

@Override
public void call(final Subscriber<? super Long> child) {
    final Worker worker = scheduler.createWorker();
    child.add(worker);
    worker.schedulePeriodically(new Action0() {
        long counter;
        @Override
        public void call() {
            try {
                child.onNext(counter++);
            } catch (Throwable e) {
                try {
                    worker.unsubscribe();
                } finally {
                    Exceptions.throwOrReport(e, child);
                }
            }
        }

    }, initialDelay, period, unit);
}

So, you will see, if you wanna cannel the loop, what about throwing a new exception in onNext(). Example code below.

Observable.interval(1000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
            .subscribe(new Action1<Long>() {
                @Override
                public void call(Long aLong) {
                    Log.i("abc", "onNext");
                    if (aLong == 5) throw new NullPointerException();
                }
            }, new Action1<Throwable>() {
                @Override
                public void call(Throwable throwable) {
                    Log.i("abc", "onError");
                }
            }, new Action0() {
                @Override
                public void call() {
                    Log.i("abc", "onCompleted");
                }
            });

Then you will see this:

08-08 11:10:46.008 28146-28181/net.bingyan.test I/abc: onNext
08-08 11:10:47.008 28146-28181/net.bingyan.test I/abc: onNext
08-08 11:10:48.008 28146-28181/net.bingyan.test I/abc: onNext
08-08 11:10:49.008 28146-28181/net.bingyan.test I/abc: onNext
08-08 11:10:50.008 28146-28181/net.bingyan.test I/abc: onNext
08-08 11:10:51.008 28146-28181/net.bingyan.test I/abc: onNext
08-08 11:10:51.018 28146-28181/net.bingyan.test I/abc: onError