I have a list of transactions. Each transaction has currency and amount information among others. I want to create a list of holdings, so the current amount held by currency. I started with groupBy() and continued with reduce. It seems I have to subscribe before I can do anything with the results, because this gives me an error:
Observable.fromIterable(transactions)
.groupBy(Transaction::getCurrency)
.flatMap(t -> t.reduce(new Holding(t.getKey()), (holding, transaction) -> holding.addTransaction(transaction.getAmount()))
It says "no instance of type variable R exist so that Single conforms to ObservableSource< ? extends R>".
On the other hand if I try this:
Observable.fromIterable(transactions)
.groupBy(Transaction::getCurrency)
.subscribe((GroupedObservable<String, Transaction> r) -> r.reduce(new Holding(r.getKey()), (holding, transaction) -> holding.addTransaction(transaction.getAmount()))
.toObservable()
.subscribe(t -> {
//t is a single Holding.
}
));
I cannot get a list, because I already subscribed to the grouped stream. I could add it up, but I'm pretty sure there is a more elegant solution, but I cannot figure it out.
Solution based on akarnokd's answer:
Observable.fromIterable(transactions)
.groupBy(Transaction::getCurrency)
.flatMapSingle(Observable::toList)
.map(Holding::new)
.toList()
.subscribe(holdings -> {
whatever(holdings);
});