Get one event per 1000 milliseconds interval

Question

I have infinite stream of events that can emit some consecutive event portions and I want to take one event per 1000 each milliseconds.

I tried debounceTime / auditTime / throttleTime but they doesn't include all events I want - to demonstrate the behavior I created playground on stackblitz which fires events once per 300ms within portion of 10 events:

• debounceTime(1000) will give only event #10

• throttleTime(1000) will give events 1,5,9 but it will omit #10 which is essential

• auditTime(1000) will give events 4,8

What I want here is to get events 1,5,9,10 (one event per 1000ms interval). How do I achieve this?

const events$ = interval(300).pipe(
  map(num => `Firing event ${num + 1}`)
);

const source = events$.pipe(
  tap(console.log),
  take(10),
  // make some debouncing??
  map(x => `Received ${x}!`)
);

source.subscribe(x =>
  console.log(
    "%c" + x,
    "background: purple; color: white; padding: 3px 5px; border-radius: 3px;"
  )
);

I also tried to play with zip / combineLatest and emitting values via interval but no luck with that

Answer 1

UPDATED

based on the discussion in comments

const events$ = timer(0, 6000).pipe(
  take(3),
  switchMap(x =>
    timer(0, 300).pipe(
      map(num => `event #${num + 1}`),
      take(x > 1 ? 9 : 10)
    )
  )
);

const source = merge(
  events$.pipe(
    tap(e => console.log(`%cStream: ${e}`, "color: blue;")),
    debounceTime(1000),
    tap(x => console.log(`%cdebounceTime captured: ${x}`, "color: red;"))
  ),
  events$.pipe(
    throttleTime(1000),
    tap(x => console.log(`%cthrottleTime captured: ${x}`, "color: green;"))
  ),
).pipe(
  // we need to avoid duplicates (like case with 9).
  // if all events aren't unique you need to use the original solution below.
  distinctUntilChanged(), // <-- if all events are unique.
  map(x => `Received ${x}!`)
);

source.subscribe(x =>
  console.log(
    "%c" + x,
    "background: purple; color: white; padding: 3px 5px; border-radius: 3px;"
  )
);

ORIGINAL

I hope that's what you wanted: https://take.ms/VP7tA

const events$ = interval(300).pipe(
    map(num => `Firing event ${num + 1}`)
);

const source = concat(events$.pipe(
    tap(console.log),
    take(10),
), timer(1000).pipe(switchMapTo(EMPTY)), events$.pipe(
    tap(console.log),
    take(10),
));

let lastTimer = 0;
const last$ = new Subject<number>();
merge(
    source.pipe(
      scan((state, event) => {
        state[1] = null;
        const stamp = new Date().getTime();
        clearTimeout(lastTimer);
        if (stamp - state[0] < 1000) {
          lastTimer = setTimeout(() => last$.next(event), (stamp - state[0]) + 50);
          return state;
        }
        state[0] = stamp;
        state[1] = event;
        return state;
      }, [0, null]),
      filter(([, event]) => event !== null),
      map(([, event]) => event || 0),
    ),
    last$,
).pipe(
    map(x => `Received ${JSON.stringify(x)}!`)
).subscribe(x =>
    console.log(
        "%c" + x,
        "background: purple; color: white; padding: 3px 5px; border-radius: 3px;"
    )
);