How can I block terminating my program until the Observable consumption is complete?

I am currently trying to use Monix for throttling api get requests. I have tried using STTP's Monix backend, and it worked fine until couldn't shut down the Monix backend after I was done... As this seems more like an sttp issue than a Monix one, I tried to re-approach the problem by using sttp's default backend, while still using Monix to throttle.

I am mainly struggling with closing the monix backend once I am done with consuming the observable

I have tried to simplify the problem through:

  import monix.execution.Scheduler.Implicits.global

  val someIter = List(Task(1), Task(2))

  val obs: Observable[CancelableFuture[Int]] = Observable
    .fromIterable(someIter)
    .throttle(3.second, 1)
    .map(_.runToFuture)

However, I am still not sure how to turn off the program after the Observable is consumed, as it terminates prematurely here (unlike the monix backend case)...

In other words, how can I block terminating program until the Observable iterable is complete?

Solution

You can create Promise, complete it when Observable is completed by .doOnComplete

And await it in the main thread.

import monix.execution.Scheduler.Implicits.global

val someIter = List(Task(1), Task(2))
val promise = Promise()
val obs: Observable[CancelableFuture[Int]] = Observable.fromIterable(someIter).throttle(3.second, 1)
  .map(_.runToFuture)
  .doOnComplete(Task { promise.complete(Success()) })

Await.ready(promise.future, Duration.Inf)