distinctUntilChanged: Old value is alway null - redux

I'm bad at introductions, so let's just cut right to the chase:
I am getting an observable from a redux store by using ngRedux.select. Immediately after I use a pipe with distinctUntilChanged with a custom compare function. However, inside this function the old value is always null, no matter how often it is being called.
Also when I put the distinctUntilChanged at a later point in the pipe after some parsing (which was the original plan), it will again always return the same value: The first one that came through the observable. Somehow I feel I am completely misunderstanding this operator, but I am using it the way the documentation suggests.
Here's the complete code I am using:
this.ngRedux.select((store: RootDomain) => getValue(() => {
const localContext = store.core.context[contextUuid];
const globalContext = store.core.context[GLOBAL_CONTEXT_KEY];
const context = Object.assign({}, globalContext, localContext);
return context[key];
})).pipe(
distinctUntilChanged((x, y) => {
console.log('OLD: ', x);
console.log('NEW: ', y);
return isEqual(x, y);
})
);
I also tried simply returning true all the time to see if anything would change (of course it didn't). x will always log as null here. Please help me understand this operator!

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the return set looks something like the following:
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allBoards.push(boards.values);
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pagedCalls.complete()
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pagedCalls.next(boards.startAt + 50);
}
});
})
pagedCalls.next(0);
Seems pretty terrible. Here's the simplest solution I have so far with a do/while loop:
let returnResult = [];
let result;
let startAt = -50;
do {
result = await jira.board.getAllBoards( { type: "scrum", startAt: startAt += 50 })
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} while (!result.isLast)
Many of the interactions with Jira use this model and I am trying to avoid writing this kind of loop every time I make a call.
I had to do something similar today, calling the Gitlab API repeatedly until I had retrieved the entire folder/file structure of the project. I did it with a recursive call inside a .then, and it seems to work all right. I have not tried to convert the code to handle your case.
Here's what I wrote, if it will help:
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.then(resp => resp.json())
.then(xs => xs.length < perPage
? res.concat(xs)
: getAll(project, perPage, page + 1, res.concat(xs))
)
getAll('gitlab-examples/nodejs')
.then(console.log)
.catch(console.warn)
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This recursive method definitely feels more functional than your versions above. There is no assignment except for the parameter defaulting, and nothing is mutated along the way.
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import { pipe, fork, switchCase, get } from 'rubico'
const getAllBoards = boards => pipe([
fork({
type: () => 'scrum',
startAt: get('startAt'),
}),
jira.board.getAllBoards,
switchCase([
get('isLast'),
response => boards.concat(response.values),
response => getAllBoards(boards.concat(response.values))({
startAt: response.startAt + response.values.length,
})
]),
])
getAllBoards([])({ startAt: 0 }) // => [...boards]
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const myAction = (stuff) => {
return (dispatch, getState) => {
let oldLength = getState().myState.stuff.length
dispatch(doStuffToStuff(stuff))
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const response = function*() {
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}
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I know I can check this in the handleResponse but that seems to be more work than it should. For instance, the handleResponse might get complex because for both the non-error and error case I need to write a lot of code (i.e. I want to have different handlers for both cases).
So is there a way to specify to only take that action when error is set to true?
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I have a Meteor Helper that does a GET request and am supposed to get response back and pass it back to the Template, but its now showing up the front end. When I log it to console, it shows the value corerctly, for the life of mine I can't get this to output to the actual template.
Here is my helper:
UI.registerHelper('getDistance', function(formatted_address) {
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The result does not show up because HTTP.call is an async function.
Use a reactiveVar in your case.
Depending on how is the formated_address param updated you can trigger the getDistance with a tracker autorun.
Regs
Yann

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