Add utility methods to write the contents of a file as one operation.

sdk/lib/io/file_impl.dart

Index: sdk/lib/io/file_impl.dart
diff --git a/sdk/lib/io/file_impl.dart b/sdk/lib/io/file_impl.dart
index 8e826aaeba28de179dab043c92098386f880821f..26e3f74665cdd9d49305fb188a9fd2b6696c5bba 100644
--- a/sdk/lib/io/file_impl.dart
+++ b/sdk/lib/io/file_impl.dart
@@ -660,6 +660,54 @@ class _File extends _FileBase implements File {
     return _getDecodedLines(decoder);
   }
 
+  Future<File> writeAsBytes(List<int> bytes,
+                            [FileMode mode = FileMode.WRITE]) {
+    Completer<File> completer = new Completer<File>();
+    try {
+      var stream = openOutputStream(mode);
+      stream.write(bytes);

[Søren Gjesse, 2012/11/20 13:23:34]

You could just do stream.close() right after stream.write and place a handler on
onClose instead of on onNoPendingWrites.

+      stream.onNoPendingWrites = () {
+        stream.close();
+        stream.onClosed = () {
+          completer.complete(this);
+        };
+      };
+      stream.onError = (e) {
+        completer.completeException(e);
+      };
+    } catch (e) {
+      new Timer(0, (t) => completer.completeException(e));
+      return completer.future;
+    }
+    return completer.future;
+  }
+
+  void writeAsBytesSync(List<int> bytes, [FileMode mode = FileMode.WRITE]) {
+    RandomAccessFile opened = openSync(mode);
+    opened.writeListSync(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
+    opened.closeSync();
+  }
+
+  Future<File> writeAsString(String contents,
+                             [FileMode mode = FileMode.WRITE,
+                              Encoding encoding = Encoding.UTF_8]) {
+    try {
+      var data = _StringEncoders.encoder(encoding).encodeString(contents);
+      return writeAsBytes(data, mode);
+    } catch (e) {
+      var completer = new Completer();
+      new Timer(0, (t) => completer.completeException(e));
+      return completer.future;
+    }
+  }
+
+  void writeAsStringSync(String contents,
+                         [FileMode mode = FileMode.WRITE,
+                          Encoding encoding = Encoding.UTF_8]) {
+    var data = _StringEncoders.encoder(encoding).encodeString(contents);
+    writeAsBytesSync(data, mode);
+  }
+
   String get name => _name;
 
   void _ensureFileService() {