How can I create reactor Flux from a blocking queue?

vitthal.kumar.dhanuka :

I am trying to implement a reactor Flux created from a BlockingQueue but not sure which operator is best for my use case?

I am creating a streaming REST end point, where response is Flux that needs to keep emitting messages from a BlockingQueue as a response to GET REST call.

I have already tried forums and documentation and can only find Flux initiated from iterable collections or reactive data sources, but no examples from any BlockingQueue.

bsideup :

You can try Flux#generate and Queue#peek. Just keep in mind that peek will return null if the queue is empty, and it cannot be used in onNext.

Something like:

Flux.generate(sink -> {
    val element = queue.peek();
    if (element == null) {
        sink.complete();
    } else {
        sink.next(element);
    }
});

There is also Flux#repeatWhen operator, in case you want to re-subscribe to the queue after it was considered empty, e.g. with:

flux.repeatWhen(it -> it.delayElements(ofSeconds(1)))

How can I create reactor Flux from a blocking queue?

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