Multi.flatMap of functions producing Uni

[bdyaav]

In my code, this has become a familiar pattern

someMulti.flatMap(item -> functionReturningUni(item).toMulti());

There is nothing wrong with this, per se, but the .toMulti() step seems like boilerplate

I would suggest an new method on Multi, allowing me to do

someMulti.flatMap(item -> functionReturningUni(item));

or even

someMulti.flatMap(this::functionReturningUni);

If nessesary, we would call the method flatMapAsUni or something like this?

How would the rest of the community feel about such syntactic sugar?

[jponge]

flatMap is a shortcut operator.

We already have onItem().transformToUni(....) methods for that purpose.