Design Patterns and Best Practices in Java

The repeat operator

In order to repeat a particular item or a specific sequence use:

• repeat: Repeats the sequence of items emitted by the given Observable source a number of times or forever (depending on the input)
• repeatUntil: Repeats the sequence of items emitted by the Observable source until the provided stop function returns true
• repeatWhen: Emits the same values as the initial Observable with the exception of onComplete

The following code repeats the given value of a until the condition is satisfied:

It repeats a to the console three times until x has value 3 which is bigger than 2. As an exercise, replace x++ with ++x and check the ...