From 2e294ea1019fa7e18a8a18865034ef11e9a6c0aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Crossan <crossan007@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 15:01:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add clearBuffer method to ReplaySubject

---
 src/internal/ReplaySubject.ts | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/internal/ReplaySubject.ts b/src/internal/ReplaySubject.ts
index 85f5c71d60..69cc69e64b 100644
--- a/src/internal/ReplaySubject.ts
+++ b/src/internal/ReplaySubject.ts
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ export class ReplaySubject<T> extends Subject<T> {
     super.next(value);
   }
 
+  public clearBuffer() {
+    // clears the event buffer so that new subscribers do not receive events which have been 
+    // added to the buffer before this method was called.
+    this._events = [];
+  }
+  
   /** @internal */
   protected _subscribe(subscriber: Subscriber<T>): Subscription {
     this._throwIfClosed();