RxJava: Merge multiple singles and complete after some have failed - rx-java2

Question

I would like to merge two Single<MyData> such that if one of them fails but the other one succeeds then the error of the one that failed and the emission from the other one are reported, and then the resulting Single<MyData> (or Observable<MyData>) completes.
If both Single<MyData> fail then the result should also fail and also be marked as failed.
What I would like to have at the end is:
If both succeed then the emitted values and a producer marked as completed.
If one succeeds and the other fails, the emitted value, the thrown error and the producer marked as complete.
If all fail, the errors and the producer marked as failed.
It's like an 'OR' operation

Answer 1

This is not possible. There is only a single terminal event allowed. The contract for Single is success|error. If you need to receive a next event as well, you should consider to use Observable instead. The contract for Observable is next* complete|error, but you'll still not get a complete.
Observable.mergeDelayError(single1.toObservable(), single2.toObservable())

Answer 2

This can be accomplished with Single.create(SingleOnSubscribe). If your return type is Single<MyData> only one of the responses can be returned, but you could also modify this to instead return a Single<List<MyData>> or some other RxJava structure like Flowable<MyData> that supports multiple returns. In this example, the Single<MyData> returns whichever call returns last because that was the simplest to implement.
public Single<MyData> getCombinedSingle(List<Single<MyData>> singles) {
return Single.create(new SingleOnSubscribe<MyData> {
private boolean encounteredError = false;
private MyData myData;
#Override
public void subscribe(#NonNull Emitter<MyData> emitter) {
List<Disposable> disposables = new ArrayList<>();
Consumer<MyData> myDataConsumer = myData -> {
this.MyData = myData;
checkForFinish(emitter, disposables);
}
Consumer<Throwable> throwableConsumer = throwable -> {
throwable.printStackTrace();
encounteredError = true;
checkForFinish(emitter, disposables);
}
for (Single single: singles) {
disposables.put(single.subscribe(myDataConsumer, throwableConsumer);
}
}
private void checkForFinish(SingleEmitter<MyData> emitter, List<Disposable> disposables) {
if (disposables1.stream().allMatch(Disposable::isDisposed)) {
if (encounteredError) {
emitter.onError(new Throwable());
} else {
emitter.onSuccess(myData);
}
}
}
}
}
This could be modified to return a Throwable from the original Singles if needed.