Make IOSink implement StringSink

sdk/lib/io/string_transformer.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2013, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 part of dart.io;
 
 /**
  * String encodings.
  */
 class Encoding {
   static const Encoding UTF_8 = const Encoding._internal("utf-8");
   static const Encoding ISO_8859_1 = const Encoding._internal("iso-8859-1");
   static const Encoding ASCII = const Encoding._internal("us-ascii");
 
   /**
+   * Gets an [Encoding] object from the name of the character set
+   * name. The names used are the IANA official names for the
+   * character set (see
+   * http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xml).
+   *
+   * The [name] passed is case insensitive.
+   *
+   * If character set is not supported [:null:] is returned.
+   */
+  static Encoding fromName(String name) {
+    if (name == null) return null;
+    name = name.toLowerCase();
+    if (name == "iso-8859-1" || name == "iso_8859-1" || name == "latin1") {
+      return ISO_8859_1;
+    } else if (name == "utf-8") {
+      return UTF_8;
+    } else if (name == "us-ascii" || name == "ascii") {
+      return ASCII;
+    } else {
+      return null;
+    }

[nweiz, 2013/03/07 19:32:05]

It would be nice if we could support all the character set aliases listed in
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xml.

[Søren Gjesse, 2013/03/08 09:47:46]

Done.

+  }
+
+  /**
    * Name of the encoding. This will be the lower-case version of one of the
    * IANA official names for the character set (see
    * http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xml)
    */
   final String name;
 
   /**
    * SYSTEM encoding is the current code page on Windows and UTF-8 on
    * Linux and Mac.
    */
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 // Utility class for decoding Windows current code page data delivered
 // as a stream of bytes.
 class _WindowsCodePageDecoder extends StreamEventTransformer<List<int>, String> {
   void handleData(List<int> data, StreamSink<String> sink) {
     sink.add(_decodeBytes(data));
   }
 
   external static String _decodeBytes(List<int> bytes);
 }