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Can you name operators in RxJava that provide parallel execution of multiple requests?

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Answer from AI

In RxJava, operators that allow running multiple requests in parallel and combining their results are often used. The main ones are:

  • flatMap() — transforms elements of the source Observable into Observables and merges them, allowing parallel requests.
  • zip() — combines multiple Observables, waiting for an element from each, which can be used for parallel requests with subsequent result merging.
  • merge() — merges multiple Observables, emitting elements as they arrive, enabling parallel processing of multiple streams.

Example with flatMap for parallel requests:

Observable.fromIterable(requests)
    .flatMap(request -> api.call(request)
        .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io()))
    .subscribe(result -> {
        // process the result
    });

Here, each request is executed in a separate thread (Scheduler.io()), ensuring parallelism.