【Android】Analysis of OnErrorReturn in RxJava

About onErrorReturn

onErrorReturn is an rxjava operator that enable emit a placeholder value instead of emit an error

Now let’s try to find what will happen after using this operator

Trial Code

Take a look at code snippet below

import io.reactivex.rxjava3.core.Observable

fun main() {
    Observable.just(Unit)
        .doOnNext { println("next 1") }
        .doOnError { println("error 1") }
        .map<String> { throw RuntimeException("error") }
        .doOnNext { println("next 2") }
        .doOnError { println("error 2") }
        .onErrorReturn { "error placeholder 3" }
        .doOnNext { println("next 3") }
        .doOnError { println("error 3") }
        .doOnComplete { println("complete 4") }
        .doFinally { println("finally 4") }
        .subscribe()
}

Console Outputs

This is the result of execution above

1
4
5
7
9

Summary

We can take a conclusion of those

• doOnError before onErrorReturn will catch error
• doOnError after onErrorReturn will not catch error
• doOnNext will receive the placeholder value
• doOnComplete and doFinally will be called, means the whole process is regard as successful
• onErrorReturn can only replace error occurs above, which is not tested here

Bless

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