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package android.arch.lifecycle;
import android.arch.core.util.Function;
import android.support.annotation.MainThread;
import android.support.annotation.NonNull;
import android.support.annotation.Nullable;
// TODO: Auto-generated Javadoc
/**
* Transformations for a {@link LiveData} class.
*
* You can use transformation methods to carry information across the observer's lifecycle. The
* transformations aren't calculated unless an observer is observing the returned LiveData object.
*
* Because the transformations are calculated lazily, lifecycle-related behavior is implicitly
* passed down without requiring additional explicit calls or dependencies.
*/
@SuppressWarnings("WeakerAccess")
public class Transformations {
/**
* Instantiates a new transformations.
*/
private Transformations() {
}
/**
* Applies the given function on the main thread to each value emitted by {@code source}
* LiveData and returns LiveData, which emits resulting values.
*
* The given function {@code func} will be executed on the main thread.
*
* Suppose that you have a LiveData, named {@code userLiveData}, that contains user data and you
* need to display the user name, created by concatenating the first and the last
* name of the user. You can define a function that handles the name creation, that will be
* applied to every value emitted by {@code useLiveData}.
*
*
* LiveData<User> userLiveData = ...;
* LiveData<String> userName = Transformations.map(userLiveData, user -> {
* return user.firstName + " " + user.lastName
* });
*
*
* @param a type of {@code source} LiveData
* @param a type of resulting LiveData.
* @param source a {@code LiveData} to listen to
* @param func a function to apply
* @return a LiveData which emits resulting values
*/
@MainThread
public static LiveData map(@NonNull LiveData source,
@NonNull final Function func) {
final MediatorLiveData result = new MediatorLiveData<>();
result.addSource(source, new Observer() {
@Override
public void onChanged(@Nullable X x) {
result.setValue(func.apply(x));
}
});
return result;
}
/**
* Creates a LiveData, let's name it {@code swLiveData}, which follows next flow:
* it reacts on changes of {@code trigger} LiveData, applies the given function to new value of
* {@code trigger} LiveData and sets resulting LiveData as a "backing" LiveData
* to {@code swLiveData}.
* "Backing" LiveData means, that all events emitted by it will retransmitted
* by {@code swLiveData}.
*
* If the given function returns null, then {@code swLiveData} is not "backed" by any other
* LiveData.
*
*
* The given function {@code func} will be executed on the main thread.
*
*
* Consider the case where you have a LiveData containing a user id. Every time there's a new
* user id emitted, you want to trigger a request to get the user object corresponding to that
* id, from a repository that also returns a LiveData.
*
* The {@code userIdLiveData} is the trigger and the LiveData returned by the {@code
* repository.getUserById} is the "backing" LiveData.
*
* In a scenario where the repository contains User(1, "Jane") and User(2, "John"), when the
* userIdLiveData value is set to "1", the {@code switchMap} will call {@code getUser(1)},
* that will return a LiveData containing the value User(1, "Jane"). So now, the userLiveData
* will emit User(1, "Jane"). When the user in the repository gets updated to User(1, "Sarah"),
* the {@code userLiveData} gets automatically notified and will emit User(1, "Sarah").
*
* When the {@code setUserId} method is called with userId = "2", the value of the {@code
* userIdLiveData} changes and automatically triggers a request for getting the user with id
* "2" from the repository. So, the {@code userLiveData} emits User(2, "John"). The LiveData
* returned by {@code repository.getUserById(1)} is removed as a source.
*
*
* MutableLiveData<String> userIdLiveData = ...;
* LiveData<User> userLiveData = Transformations.switchMap(userIdLiveData, id ->
* repository.getUserById(id));
*
* void setUserId(String userId) {
* this.userIdLiveData.setValue(userId);
* }
*
*
* @param a type of {@code source} LiveData
* @param a type of resulting LiveData
* @param trigger a {@code LiveData} to listen to
* @param func a function which creates "backing" LiveData
* @return the live data
*/
@MainThread
public static LiveData switchMap(@NonNull LiveData trigger,
@NonNull final Function> func) {
final MediatorLiveData result = new MediatorLiveData<>();
result.addSource(trigger, new Observer() {
LiveData mSource;
@Override
public void onChanged(@Nullable X x) {
LiveData newLiveData = func.apply(x);
if (mSource == newLiveData) {
return;
}
if (mSource != null) {
result.removeSource(mSource);
}
mSource = newLiveData;
if (mSource != null) {
result.addSource(mSource, new Observer() {
@Override
public void onChanged(@Nullable Y y) {
result.setValue(y);
}
});
}
}
});
return result;
}
}