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using System.Reactive.Concurrency;
using System.Reactive.Disposables;
namespace System.Reactive
{
///
/// Abstract base class for implementations of the IObservable<T> interface.
///
///
/// If you don't need a named type to create an observable sequence (i.e. you rather need
/// an instance rather than a reusable type), use the Observable.Create method to create
/// an observable sequence with specified subscription behavior.
///
/// The type of the elements in the sequence.
public abstract class ObservableBase : IObservable
{
///
/// Subscribes the given observer to the observable sequence.
///
/// Observer that will receive notifications from the observable sequence.
/// Disposable object representing an observer's subscription to the observable sequence.
/// is null.
public IDisposable Subscribe(IObserver observer)
{
if (observer == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("observer");
var autoDetachObserver = new AutoDetachObserver(observer);
if (CurrentThreadScheduler.IsScheduleRequired)
{
//
// Notice we don't protect this piece of code using an exception handler to
// redirect errors to the OnError channel. This call to Schedule will run the
// trampoline, so we'd be catching all exceptions, including those from user
// callbacks that happen to run there. For example, consider:
//
// Observable.Return(42, Scheduler.CurrentThread)
// .Subscribe(x => { throw new Exception(); });
//
// Here, the OnNext(42) call would be scheduled on the trampoline, so when we
// return from the scheduled Subscribe call, the CurrentThreadScheduler moves
// on to invoking this work item. Too much of protection here would cause the
// exception thrown in OnNext to circle back to OnError, which looks like the
// sequence can't make up its mind.
//
CurrentThreadScheduler.Instance.Schedule(autoDetachObserver, ScheduledSubscribe);
}
else
{
try
{
autoDetachObserver.Disposable = SubscribeCore(autoDetachObserver);
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
//
// This can happen when there's a synchronous callback to OnError in the
// implementation of SubscribeCore, which also throws. So, we're seeing
// an exception being thrown from a handler.
//
// For compat with v1.x, we rethrow the exception in this case, keeping
// in mind this should be rare but if it happens, something's totally
// screwed up.
//
if (!autoDetachObserver.Fail(exception))
throw;
}
}
return autoDetachObserver;
}
private IDisposable ScheduledSubscribe(IScheduler _, AutoDetachObserver autoDetachObserver)
{
try
{
autoDetachObserver.Disposable = SubscribeCore(autoDetachObserver);
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
//
// This can happen when there's a synchronous callback to OnError in the
// implementation of SubscribeCore, which also throws. So, we're seeing
// an exception being thrown from a handler.
//
// For compat with v1.x, we rethrow the exception in this case, keeping
// in mind this should be rare but if it happens, something's totally
// screwed up.
//
if (!autoDetachObserver.Fail(exception))
throw;
}
return Disposable.Empty;
}
///
/// Implement this method with the core subscription logic for the observable sequence.
///
/// Observer to send notifications to.
/// Disposable object representing an observer's subscription to the observable sequence.
protected abstract IDisposable SubscribeCore(IObserver observer);
}
}