Is it possible to do real non-blocking IO with RxJava?

[jfconavarrete]

Hello all,

I have been trying to do non-blocking IO requests with RxJava without success, all I have been able to achieve is making my calls run asynchronously on a thread from the Schedulers.io thread pool. It seems that the threads from Schedulers.io still block waiting for the response, therefore not doing real NIO.

Is it possible to do real NIO using just RxJava or does one have to use another library that does NIO (such as Unirest)?

Thanks in advance

[akarnokd]

RxJava doesn't do IO on its own and you need some other library for that, such as Netty for example.

[akarnokd]

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