Rx.NET How do I buffer stream data as a moving (sliding) window without delay?

Question

I'm working on connecting to trading data with Rx.NET library and what I want to do is continuously buffer last 100 seconds of data and analyze it every 2 seconds. I'm using the following Buffer method overload:

        tradeStream
            .Buffer(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(100), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(2))
            .Subscribe(data =>
            {
                //...
            });

The problem now is it works as 100 seconds buffer + it waits for 2 seconds. Is there a way to take a sort of "snapshot" of last 100 seconds immediately with certain interval?

Answer 1

Alright, I must confess I was wrong in my conclusions thinking it's a buffer() extension issue.

The reason why a delay happened after buffer emission was a long running task inside observer. I have found a solution that does what I expect. I just need to collect some data and call a method to process it in async thread. And even if processing takes longer than buffering interval, the sequence is still consistent.

var tlist = Observable.Range(1, 100)
.Zip(Observable.Interval(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1000)), (i, t) => i);

var list = tlist.Publish();


list.Subscribe(b => {
Console.WriteLine(b);
});

list
.Buffer(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1))
.SelectMany(async b =>
{
    Console.WriteLine(string.Join("_", b));
    await Task.Delay(4000);
    return Task.FromResult(0);
})
.Subscribe();

list.Connect();