RxJava Filter on Error - kotlin

Question

This question is loosely related to this question, but there were no answers. The answer from Bob Dalgleish is close, but doesn't support the potential error coming from a Single (which I think that OP actually wanted as well).
I'm basically looking for a way to "filter on error" - but don't think this exists when the lookup is RX based. I am trying to take a list of values, run them through a lookup, and skip any result that returns a lookup failure (throwable). I'm having trouble figuring out how to accomplish this in a reactive fashion.
I've tried various forms of error handling operators combined with mapping. Filter only works for raw values - or at least I couldn't figure out how to use it to support what I'd like to do.
In my use case, I iterate a list of IDs, requesting data for each from a remote service. If the service returns 404, then the item doesn't exist anymore. I should remove non-existing items from the local database and continue processing IDs. The stream should return the list of looked up values.
Here is a loose example. How do I write getStream() so that canFilterOnError passes?
import io.reactivex.Single
import io.reactivex.schedulers.Schedulers
import org.junit.Test
class SkipExceptionTest {
private val data: Map<Int, String> = mapOf(
Pair(1, "one"),
Pair(2, "two"),
Pair(4, "four"),
Pair(5, "five")
)
#Test
fun canFilterOnError() {
getStream(listOf(1, 2, 3, 4, 5))
.subscribeOn(Schedulers.trampoline())
.observeOn(Schedulers.trampoline())
.test()
.assertComplete()
.assertNoErrors()
.assertValueCount(1)
.assertValue {
it == listOf(
"one", "two", "four", "five"
)
}
}
fun getStream(list: List<Int>): Single<List<String>> {
// for each item in the list
// get it's value via getValue()
// if a call to getValue() results in a NotFoundException, skip that value and continue
// mutate the results using mutate()
TODO("not implemented")
}
fun getValue(id: Int): Single<String> {
return Single.fromCallable {
val value: String? = data[id]
if (value != null) {
data[id]
} else {
throw NotFoundException("dat with id $id does not exist")
}
}
}
class NotFoundException(message: String) : Exception(message)
}

Answer 1

First .materialize(), then .filter() on non-error events, then .dematerialize():
getStream(/* ... */)
.materialize()
.filter(notification -> { return !notification.isOnError(); })
.dematerialize()

Answer 2

I ended up mapping getValue() to Optional<String>, then calling onErrorResumeNext() on that and either returning Single.error() or Single.just(Optional.empty()). From there, the main stream could filter out the empty Optional.
private fun getStream(list: List<Int>): Single<List<String>> {
return Observable.fromIterable(list)
.flatMapSingle {
getValue(it)
.map {
Optional.of(it)
}
.onErrorResumeNext {
when (it) {
is NotFoundException -> Single.just(Optional.empty())
else -> Single.error(it)
}
}
}
.filter { it.isPresent }
.map { it.get() }
.toList()
}