Reactive Observable.Create for async producer without Task.Run

Question

I want write function which will return items asynchronously:

public static async Task<IEnumerable<T>> GetItems()
{
    while (await ShouldLoopAsync())
    {
        yield return await GetItemAsync();
    }
}

Of course it will not work. In 1 they propose next solution:

return Observable.Create<T>(
    observer => Task.Run(async () =>
        {
            while (await ShouldLoopAsync())
            {
                observer.OnNext(await getAsync());
            }
            observer.OnCompleted();
        }
    )
);

I don't like accepted solution from 1 because it uses Task.Run method inside Observable.Create. I want some solution with reactive extensions which will run on the current TaskScheduler without using other threads except existing one. I can write such solution in declarative way using .net events but I can't with Rx.

UPDATE

I tried to remove Task.Run and write next test:

[TestClass]
public class ReactiveWithTaskIEnumerable
{
    [TestMethod]
    public void ReactibeShouldProcessValuesWithoutnakoplenie()
    {
        Trace.WriteLine($"Start Thread {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId}");
        var i = GetIntsAsync()
            .Subscribe(
            onNext: p =>
            {
                Trace.WriteLine($"onNext Thread {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId} {p}");
            },
            onCompleted: () =>
            {
                Trace.WriteLine($"onCompleted Thread {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId}");
            },
            onError: p =>
            {
                Trace.WriteLine($"onError Thread {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId} {p}");
                throw p;
            }
            );
        Trace.WriteLine($"Finish Thread {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId}");

    }

    private IObservable<int> GetIntsAsync()
    {
        return Observable.Create<int>(
            observer => async () =>
            {
                Trace.WriteLine($"Produce {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId}");
                try
                {
                    foreach (var i in Enumerable.Range(1, 10))
                    {
                        await Task.Delay(1000);
                        observer.OnNext(1);
                    }
                }
                catch (Exception e)
                {
                    observer.OnError(e);
                }
                observer.OnCompleted();
            });
    }
}

And the output is:

Start Thread 3
Finish Thread 3

So internal task doesn't start at all.

After that I changed GetIntsAsync to this:

    private IObservable<int> GetIntsAsync()
    {
        return Observable.Create<int>(
            observer =>
            {
                async Task Lambda()
                {
                    Trace.WriteLine($"Produce {Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId}");
                    try
                    {
                        foreach (var i in Enumerable.Range(1, 10))
                        {
                            await Task.Delay(1000);
                            observer.OnNext(1);
                        }
                    }
                    catch (Exception e)
                    {
                        observer.OnError(e);
                    }
                    observer.OnCompleted();
                }

                return Lambda();
            });
    }

And this gives next output:

Debug Trace:
Start Thread 3
Produce 3
Finish Thread 3

It is close to output with Task.Run :

Debug Trace: Start Thread 3 Produce 9 Finish Thread 3

Now I need to wait until observable comes completion

Answer 1

Have a go at NuGetting "System.Interactive" and then try this:

public static IEnumerable<int> GetItems()
{
    return EnumerableEx.Create<int>(async y =>
    {
        while (await ShouldLoopAsync())
        {
            await y.Return(GetItemAsync());
        }
        await y.Break();
    });
}