Is there a clean way to send a fire and forget request through rx? There's nothing to be done upon returning, so an empty

.subscribe()

would make sense, but if the request fails for some reason the app crashes because there is no

onError

handling. However, if I give it something so that it feels it has error handlung, like

.subscribe({ }, { })

, I'll be passing on indirect reference to the enclosing class, which would prevent it from being garbage collected until the request returned. Is there some sort of standard way of acting on such scenario?

If you want to suppress exceptions, you could use

onErrorResume(empty())

before your subscribe

An empty lambda will not capture, but you can also use

Actions.empty()

or whatever it's called

So by passing down

empty()

either to

subscribe()

or

onErrorResume()

I'll solve my problem without leaking references. That's neat, gonna do that.