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Don't automatically start requesting on subscribe
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Motivation:

HandlerSubscriber automatically starts requests when calling
onSubscribe.

But when a publisher subscribes, RxJava automatically requests the
Subscription if there are some pending requests.

When such race condition happen, we end up with 2 threads (calling and
event loop) competing for requesting the Subscription. This results is
out of order published messages.

Modification:

Make HandlerSubscriber#onSubscribe noop and actually delay it to after
Publisher has subscribed.

Result:

No more out of order messages.
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slandelle committed Nov 28, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ public void write(Channel channel, NettyResponseFuture<?> future) throws IOExcep
NettySubscriber subscriber = new NettySubscriber(channel, future);
channel.pipeline().addLast(NAME_IN_CHANNEL_PIPELINE, subscriber);
publisher.subscribe(new SubscriberAdapter(subscriber));
subscriber.delayedStart();
}
}

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.addListener(future -> removeFromPipeline()));
}

private volatile Subscription deferredSubscription;

@Override
public void onSubscribe(Subscription subscription) {
deferredSubscription = subscription;
}

public void delayedStart() {
super.onSubscribe(deferredSubscription);
}

@Override
protected void error(Throwable error) {
if (error == null)
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