Convert Custom EventHandler to IObservable

Question

I'm currently try to learning Reactive programming in C# with trying to convert my old project to Reactive, I use a dll file to connect to a biometric machine, this is some event exposed by the dll, how I can convert this to Observable using Observable.FromEvent?

// I use the event like this,
axCZKEM.OnAttTransactionEx += new _IZKEMEvents_OnAttTransactionExEventHandler(axCZKEM_OnAttTransactionEx);

and this is the generated metadata

#region Assembly Interop.zkemkeeper, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
// C:\Project\C#\obj\Debug\Interop.zkemkeeper.dll
#endregion

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace zkemkeeper
{
    [ComVisible(false)]
    [TypeLibType(16)]
    public delegate void _IZKEMEvents_OnAttTransactionExEventHandler(
        string EnrollNumber, 
        int IsInValid,
        int AttState,
        int VerifyMethod,
        int Year,
        int Month,
        int Day,
        int Hour,
        int Minute,
        int Second,
        int WorkCode);
}

Code Name Jack · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-29T04:37:31.883

Even I am new to Reactive programming, But I will try as there are no other answers, You will need two things here. One, Use a wrapper for your event args.

internal class MyArgs
{
    public string EnrollNumber;
    public int IsInValid;
    public int AttState;
    public int VerifyMethod;
    public int Year;
    public int Month;
    public int Day;
    public int Hour;
    public int Minute;
    public int Second;
    public int WorkCode;
}

Then use FromEvent with a converter to convert your args into MyArgs.

  var observable = Observable.FromEvent<_IZKEMEvents_OnAttTransactionExEventHandler, MyArgs>(
         converter => new _IZKEMEvents_OnAttTransactionExEventHandler(
                         (enrollNumber, isInValid, attState, verifyMethod, year, month, day, hour, minute, second, workCode)
                         => converter(new MyArgs
                         {
                             EnrollNumber = enrollNumber,
                             IsInValid = isInValid,
                             AttState = attState,
                             VerifyMethod = verifyMethod,
                             Day=day,
                             Hour=hour,
                             Minute=minute,
                             Month=month,
                             Second=second,
                             WorkCode=workCode,
                             Year=year
                         })
                 ),
         handler => axCZKEM.OnAttTransactionEx += handler,
         handler => axCZKEM.OnAttTransactionEx -= handler);

Already try that, Error ; Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.EventHandler' to 'zkemkeeper._IZKEMEvents_OnAttTransactionExEventHandler' — SIRS, Sep 29 '18 at 03:29
Looks like you have two definitions for your event handler. Is 'IZKEMEvents_OnAttTransactionExEventHandler' part of other assembly and you have also declared it in your code. — Code Name Jack, Sep 29 '18 at 03:33
no, I don't declare any `_IZKEMEvents_OnAttTransactionExEventHandler` in my code — SIRS, Sep 29 '18 at 03:42
I forgot the fact that, This is a non dotnet event, You will have to use a wrapper for arguments with FromEvent, I have update my answer, please revisit. — Code Name Jack, Sep 29 '18 at 07:45

Convert Custom EventHandler to IObservable

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