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by justin cater.
Original Post: flatMap() and the order of events – RxJava FAQ
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As we already discovered, flatMap() does not preserve the order of original stream. Let’s illustrate this using the GeoNames API example from previous article: public interface GeoNames { Flowable<Long> populationOf(String city); } By requesting population of multiple cities using flatMap() we have no guarantee that they will arrive in order: Flowable<String> cities = Flowable.just("Warsaw", "Paris", "London", "Madrid"); cities .flatMap(geoNames::populationOf) .subscribe(response -> log.info("Population: ...
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