Best way to create a multicast-able createObservableFunction observable?

[thomaslundstrom]

I recently had the same problem as http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26664793/createobservablefunction-subscriber-gets-overriden
where trying to subscribe() multiple times to the same observable created via $scope.$createObservableFunction overwrites the previous subscription (see the StackOverflow code example).

In a comment to the question, the person asking the question followed up with

"In order to multicast it you need to do $createObservableFunction().publish().refCount() to keep the > the connection to the source."

I can confirm this works with multiple subscriptions. Is there another (better) way of doing this?

[PhiLhoSoft]

I am only a beginner at RxJS, but from what I saw so far, using .publish().refCount() (or .share(), as said in the answer, which is the same thing) is the blessed way to do this.
You will see this couple used a lot in the source code of this library.

[PhiLhoSoft]

Mmm, I haven't seen the question is nearly one year old...
Looking at the source, I see:

Rx.createObservableFunction = function (self, functionName, listener) {
  return new CreateObservableFunction(self, functionName, listener).publish().refCount();
};

so I guess the issue is already addressed and should be closed...