dart:io | Add asynchronous versions of the methods of FileSystemEntity and Link.

sdk/lib/io/file_system_entity.dart

Index: sdk/lib/io/file_system_entity.dart
diff --git a/sdk/lib/io/file_system_entity.dart b/sdk/lib/io/file_system_entity.dart
index ac00741528f7b254f64b89412d05a4baf94bd990..f3f8955158666fa11e5ef9e0ffa53e9cc6ef3141 100644
--- a/sdk/lib/io/file_system_entity.dart
+++ b/sdk/lib/io/file_system_entity.dart
@@ -43,6 +43,25 @@ abstract class FileSystemEntity {
     return result;
   }
 
+  static Future<int> _getTypeAsync(String path, bool followLinks) =>
+      new Future.sync(() => _getTypeSync(path, followLinks));
+
+  /**
+   * Do two paths refer to the same object in the file system?
+   * Links are not identical to their targets, and two links
+   * are not identical just because they point to identical targets.
+   * Links in intermediate directories in the paths are followed, though.
+   *
+   * Throws an error if one of the paths points to an object that does not
+   * exist.
+   * The target of a link can be compared by first getting it with Link.target.
+   */
+  static Future<bool> identical(String path1, String path2) {
+    var result = _identical(path1, path2);
+    _throwIfError(result, 'Error in FileSystemEntity.identical');

[Bill Hesse, 2013/05/02 14:02:42]

Error should be on the future.

[Bill Hesse, 2013/05/02 14:02:42]

Fixed - all errors are now on the Futures.

+    return new Future<bool>.value(result);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Do two paths refer to the same object in the file system?
    * Links are not identical to their targets, and two links
@@ -59,9 +78,23 @@ abstract class FileSystemEntity {
     return result;
   }
 
+  static Future<FileSystemEntityType> type(String path,
+                                           {bool followLinks: true})
+      => new Future<FileSystemEntityType>.value(
+          typeSync(path, followLinks: followLinks));
+
   static FileSystemEntityType typeSync(String path, {bool followLinks: true})
       => FileSystemEntityType._lookup(_getTypeSync(path, followLinks));
 
+  static Future<bool> isLink(String path) => _getTypeAsync(path, false).then(
+      (type) => (type == FileSystemEntityType.LINK._type));
+
+  static Future<bool> isFile(String path) => _getTypeAsync(path, true).then(
+      (type) => (type == FileSystemEntityType.FILE._type));
+
+  static Future<bool> isDirectory(String path) => _getTypeAsync(path, true)
+      .then((type) => (type == FileSystemEntityType.DIRECTORY._type));
+
   static bool isLinkSync(String path) =>
       (_getTypeSync(path, false) == FileSystemEntityType.LINK._type);