fix(groupBy): will no longer leak inner subscriptions

`groupBy` no longer supports the behavior where inner subscriptions will cause the outer subscription to stay connected after consumer unsubscribes from result.

Resolves ReactiveX#6805

BREAKING CHANGE: `groupBy` no longer allows grouped observable subscriptions to stay connected after parent subscription unsubscribed. If you need this behavior, don't unsubscribe from the parent.

spec/operators/groupBy-spec.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { expect } from 'chai';
 import { groupBy, delay, tap, map, take, mergeMap, materialize, skip, ignoreElements } from 'rxjs/operators';
 import { TestScheduler } from 'rxjs/testing';
-import { ReplaySubject, of, Observable, Operator, Observer, Subject, NextNotification, ErrorNotification } from 'rxjs';
+import { ReplaySubject, of, Observable, Subject, NextNotification, ErrorNotification } from 'rxjs';
 import { createNotification } from 'rxjs/internal/NotificationFactories';
 import { observableMatcher } from '../helpers/observableMatcher';
 
@@ -534,8 +534,8 @@ describe('groupBy operator', () => {
     });
   });
 
-  it('should allow the outer to be unsubscribed early but inners continue', () => {
-    testScheduler.run(({ cold, hot, expectObservable, expectSubscriptions }) => {
+  it('should unsubscribe inner subscriptions when the result unsubscribes', () => {
+    testScheduler.run(({ cold, hot, expectObservable }) => {
       const values = {
         a: '  foo',
         b: ' FoO ',
@@ -551,10 +551,10 @@ describe('groupBy operator', () => {
         l: '    fOo    ',
       };
       const e1 = hot('-1--2--^-a-b-c-d-e-f-g-h-i-j-k-l-|', values);
-      const unsub = '         ---------!                ';
-      const expected = '      --w---x---                ';
-      const w = cold('        a-b---d---------i-----l-| ', values);
-      const x = cold('            c-------g-h---------| ', values);
+      const unsub = '        ----------!                ';
+      const expected = '     --w---x----                ';
+      const w = cold('         a-b---d--                ', values);
+      const x = cold('             c----                ', values);
       const expectedValues = { w: w, x: x };
 
       const source = e1.pipe(groupBy((val: string) => val.toLowerCase().trim()));
@@ -884,7 +884,7 @@ describe('groupBy operator', () => {
     });
   });
 
-  it('should allow using a durationSelector, and outer unsubscribed early', () => {
+  it('should allow using a durationSelector, and unsub from outer and inner at the same time', () => {
     testScheduler.run(({ cold, hot, expectObservable, expectSubscriptions }) => {
       const values = {
         a: '  foo',
@@ -904,8 +904,8 @@ describe('groupBy operator', () => {
       const unsub = '        -----------!               ';
       const expected = '     --v---w---x-               ';
       const v = cold('         a-b---(d|)               ', values);
-      const w = cold('             c-------g-(h|)       ', values);
-      const x = cold('                 e---------j-(k|) ', values);
+      const w = cold('             c-----               ', values);
+      const x = cold('                 e-               ', values);
       const expectedValues = { v: v, w: w, x: x };
 
       const source = e1.pipe(

src/internal/operators/OperatorSubscriber.ts

@@ -38,18 +38,13 @@ export class OperatorSubscriber<T> extends Subscriber<T> {
    * this handler are sent to the `destination` error handler.
    * @param onFinalize Additional finalization logic here. This will only be called on finalization if the
    * subscriber itself is not already closed. This is called after all other finalization logic is executed.
-   * @param shouldUnsubscribe An optional check to see if an unsubscribe call should truly unsubscribe.
-   * NOTE: This currently **ONLY** exists to support the strange behavior of {@link groupBy}, where unsubscription
-   * to the resulting observable does not actually disconnect from the source if there are active subscriptions
-   * to any grouped observable. (DO NOT EXPOSE OR USE EXTERNALLY!!!)
    */
   constructor(
     destination: Subscriber<any>,
     onNext?: (value: T) => void,
     onComplete?: () => void,
     onError?: (err: any) => void,
-    private onFinalize?: () => void,
-    private shouldUnsubscribe?: () => boolean
+    private onFinalize?: () => void
   ) {
     // It's important - for performance reasons - that all of this class's
     // members are initialized and that they are always initialized in the same
@@ -102,11 +97,9 @@ export class OperatorSubscriber<T> extends Subscriber<T> {
   }
 
   unsubscribe() {
-    if (!this.shouldUnsubscribe || this.shouldUnsubscribe()) {
-      const { closed } = this;
-      super.unsubscribe();
-      // Execute additional teardown if we have any and we didn't already do so.
-      !closed && this.onFinalize?.();
-    }
+    const { closed } = this;
+    super.unsubscribe();
+    // Execute additional teardown if we have any and we didn't already do so.
+    !closed && this.onFinalize?.();
   }
 }

src/internal/operators/groupBy.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { Observable } from '../Observable';
 import { from } from '../observable/from';
 import { Subject } from '../Subject';
 import { ObservableInput, Observer, OperatorFunction, SubjectLike } from '../types';
-import { createOperatorSubscriber, OperatorSubscriber } from './OperatorSubscriber';
+import { createOperatorSubscriber } from './OperatorSubscriber';
 
 export interface BasicGroupByOptions<K, T> {
   element?: undefined;
@@ -165,20 +165,14 @@ export function groupBy<T, K, R>(
       // next call from the source.
       const handleError = (err: any) => notify((consumer) => consumer.error(err));
 
-      // The number of actively subscribed groups
-      let activeGroups = 0;
-
-      // Whether or not teardown was attempted on this subscription.
-      let teardownAttempted = false;
-
       // Capturing a reference to this, because we need a handle to it
       // in `createGroupedObservable` below. This is what we use to
       // subscribe to our source observable. This sometimes needs to be unsubscribed
       // out-of-band with our `subscriber` which is the downstream subscriber, or destination,
       // in cases where a user unsubscribes from the main resulting subscription, but
       // still has groups from this subscription subscribed and would expect values from it
       // Consider:  `source.pipe(groupBy(fn), take(2))`.
-      const groupBySourceSubscriber = new OperatorSubscriber(
+      const groupBySourceSubscriber = createOperatorSubscriber(
         subscriber,
         (value: T) => {
           // Because we have to notify all groups of any errors that occur in here,
@@ -240,14 +234,7 @@ export function groupBy<T, K, R>(
         // When the source subscription is _finally_ torn down, release the subjects and keys
         // in our groups Map, they may be quite large and we don't want to keep them around if we
         // don't have to.
-        () => groups.clear(),
-        () => {
-          teardownAttempted = true;
-          // We only kill our subscription to the source if we have
-          // no active groups. As stated above, consider this scenario:
-          // source$.pipe(groupBy(fn), take(2)).
-          return activeGroups === 0;
-        }
+        () => groups.clear()
       );
 
       // Subscribe to the source
@@ -259,17 +246,7 @@ export function groupBy<T, K, R>(
        * @param groupSubject The subject that fuels the group
        */
       function createGroupedObservable(key: K, groupSubject: SubjectLike<any>) {
-        const result: any = new Observable<T>((groupSubscriber) => {
-          activeGroups++;
-          const innerSub = groupSubject.subscribe(groupSubscriber);
-          return () => {
-            innerSub.unsubscribe();
-            // We can kill the subscription to our source if we now have no more
-            // active groups subscribed, and a finalization was already attempted on
-            // the source.
-            --activeGroups === 0 && teardownAttempted && groupBySourceSubscriber.unsubscribe();
-          };
-        });
+        const result: any = new Observable<T>((groupSubscriber) => groupSubject.subscribe(groupSubscriber));
         result.key = key;
         return result;
       }