I know how to handle Retrofit responses but I have a problem with handling pagination from a REST API with rx java.
Background
The rest api that I'm using gives me the following response with the link to the next page in the headers:
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Link: <http://some-endpoint.com/pictures?page=2>; rel="next"
Vary: Accept
X-Total-Count: 80
[
{
"id": 3,
"url": "",
"picture": {
"id": 6,
"url": "",
"name": "Chrysler"
},
"location": {
"type": "Point",
"coordinates": [
10.108956,
41.389576000000005
]
}
},
{
"id": 4,
"url": "",
"picture": {
"id": 26,
"url": "",
"name": "Douglas Aircraft"
},
"location": {
"type": "Point",
"coordinates": [
10.1977759999999997,
41.426645
]
}
},
...
}
Right know I managed to get the pagination request to page 2 with the following code but I don't know how to make those pagination requests until there is no "next" header link on the response so I can be able to save all data from all requests to the database.
private Observable<List<PictureEntity>> getPictures(final LocationEntity locationEntity) {
if (getDataFromServer()) {
return mApiService.getPictures()
.concatMap(new Func1<Response<List<Picture>>, Observable<Response<List<Picture>>>>() {
@Override
public Observable<Response<List<Picture>>> call(Response<List<Picture>> listResponse) {
String link = NetworkUtil.getNextLinkPaginate(listResponse.headers().get("Link"));
Timber.i(link);
return Observable.just(listResponse)
.concatWith(mApiService.getPicturesPaginate(link))
.reduce(new Func2<Response<List<Picture>>, Response<List<Picture>>,
Response<List<Picture>>>() {
@Override
public Response<List<Picture>> call(Response<List<Picture>> listResponse,
Response<List<Picture>> listResponse2) {
listResponse.body().addAll(listResponse2.body());
return listResponse;
}
});
}
})
.concatMap(new Func1<Response<List<Picture>>, Observable<List<PictureEntity>>>() {
@Override
public Observable<List<PictureEntity>> call(Response<List<Picture>> listResponse) {
List<PictureEntity> pictureEntities =
mPictureDataMapper.transformToEntity(listResponse.body());
mDatabaseHelper.setPictureEntity(pictureEntities).subscribe();
return mDatabaseHelper.getNearbyPicturesEntity(locationEntity);
}
});
} else {
return mDatabaseHelper.getNearbyPicturesEntity(locationEntity);
}
}
Any suggestions on how to handle this kind of requests? Maybe .takeUntil operator?