LiveData Transformations.map() with multiple arguments

Question

I have a value in the UI that it's value depends on two LiveData objects. Imagine a shop where you need a subtotal = sum of all items price and a total = subtotal + shipment price. Using Transformations we can do the following for the subtotal LiveData object (as it only depends on itemsLiveData):

val itemsLiveData: LiveData<List<Items>> = ...
val subtotalLiveData = Transformations.map(itemsLiveData) { 
   items ->
       getSubtotalPrice(items)
}

In the case of the total it would be great to be able to do something like this:

val shipPriceLiveData: LiveData<Int> = ...
val totalLiveData = Transformations.map(itemsLiveData, shipPriceLiveData) { 
   items, price ->
       getSubtotalPrice(items) + price
}

But, unfortunately, that's not possible because we cannot put more than one argument in the map function. Anyone knows a good way of achieving this?

Answer 1

UPDATE

Based on my previous answer, I created a generic way where we can add as many live datas as we want.

import androidx.lifecycle.LiveData
import androidx.lifecycle.MediatorLiveData

/**
 * CombinedLiveData is a helper class to combine results from multiple LiveData sources.
 * @param liveDatas Variable number of LiveData arguments.
 * @param combine   Function reference that will be used to combine all LiveData data.
 * @param R         The type of data returned after combining all LiveData data.
 * Usage:
 * CombinedLiveData<SomeType>(
 *     getLiveData1(),
 *     getLiveData2(),
 *     ... ,
 *     getLiveDataN()
 * ) { datas: List<Any?> ->
 *     // Use datas[0], datas[1], ..., datas[N] to return a SomeType value
 * }
 */
class CombinedLiveData<R>(vararg liveDatas: LiveData<*>,
                          private val combine: (datas: List<Any?>) -> R) : MediatorLiveData<R>() {

    private val datas: MutableList<Any?> = MutableList(liveDatas.size) { null }

    init {
        for(i in liveDatas.indices){
            super.addSource(liveDatas[i]) {
                datas[i] = it
                value = combine(datas)
            }
        }
    }
}

OLD

At the end I used MediatorLiveData to achieve the same objective.

fun mapBasketTotal(source1: LiveData<List<Item>>, source2: LiveData<ShipPrice>): LiveData<String> {
    val result = MediatorLiveData<String>()
    uiThread {
        var subtotal: Int = 0
        var shipPrice: Int = 0
        fun sumAndFormat(){ result.value = format(subtotal + shipPrice)}
        result.addSource(source1, { items ->
            if (items != null) {
                subtotal = getSubtotalPrice(items)
                sumAndFormat()
            }
        })
        result.addSource(source2, { price ->
            if (price != null) {
                shipPrice = price
                sumAndFormat()
            }
        })
    }
    return result
}