One of the main features of using RxSwift and RxCocoa or FRP is the possibility to chain several asynchronous requests and avoid callback hell. It can be achieved by using FlatMap operator and creating your own Observables from your asynchronous jobs like network requests or heavy calculations. But sometimes it is not simple to understand, how to do it. In this post I would like to show an example from one of my projects. The same can be applied to Objective C + ReactiveCocoa, the idea is the same. <\/p>\n
First of all we should create Observables from different asynchronous requests. Then we can chain them using FlatMap operator. My example concerns a classic case – login and profile fetching. In many apps after logging in a user you have to request his profile in a separate request. <\/p>\n
Usually you use MVVM with RxSwift. In a ViewModel you can create observables. In my case login() method creates an Observable from Alamofire request. In loadProfile() method Observable is created from ProfileService. <\/p>\n