Make StreamSubscription be the active part of a stream.

pkg/scheduled_test/lib/src/mock_clock.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.
 
 /// A library that wraps [Timer] in a way that can be mocked out in test code.
 /// Application code only needs to use [newTimer] to get an instance of [Timer].
 /// Then test code can call [mock] to mock out all new [Timer] instances so that
 /// they're controllable by a returned [Clock] object.
 library mock_clock;
 
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   _mocked ? new _MockTimer(duration, callback) : new Timer(duration, callback);
 
 /// A clock that controls when mocked [Timer]s move forward in time. It starts
 /// at time 0 and advances forward millisecond-by-millisecond, broadcasting each
 /// tick on the [onTick] stream.
 class Clock {
   /// The current time of the clock, in milliseconds. Starts at 0.
   int get time => _time;
   int _time = 0;
 
+  /// Collection of controllers of all subscribed listeners.
+  Set<StreamController> _subscriptions = new Set<StreamController>();
+
+  Clock._();
+
   /// The stream of millisecond ticks of the clock.
   Stream<int> get onTick {
-    if (_onTickControllerStream == null) {
-      _onTickControllerStream = _onTickController.stream.asBroadcastStream();
-    }
-    return _onTickControllerStream;
+    StreamController<int> controller;

[floitsch, 2013/05/23 18:38:23]

We should really provide a StreamController that does this for you...

+    controller = new StreamController<int>(
+        onListen: () {
+          _subscriptions.add(controller);
+        },
+        onCancel: () {
+          _subscriptions.remove(controller);
+        });
+    return controller.stream;
   }
 
-  final _onTickController = new StreamController<int>();
-  Stream<int> _onTickControllerStream;
-
-  Clock._();
 
   /// Advances the clock forward by [milliseconds]. This works like synchronous
   /// code that takes [milliseconds] to execute; any [Timer]s that are scheduled
   /// to fire during the interval will do so asynchronously once control returns
   /// to the event loop.
-  void tick([int milliseconds=1]) {
+  void tick([int milliseconds = 1]) {
     for (var i = 0; i < milliseconds; i++) {
       var tickTime = ++_time;
-      new Future.value().then((_) => _onTickController.add(tickTime));
+      runAsync(() {
+        List<StreamController> controllers = _subscriptions.toList();
+        for (StreamController controller in controllers) {
+          if (controller in _subscriptions) {
+            controller.add(tickTime);
+          }
+        }
+      });
     }
   }
 
   /// Automatically progresses forward in time as long as there are still
   /// subscribers to [onTick] (that is, [Timer]s waiting to fire). After each
   /// tick, this pumps the event loop repeatedly so that all non-clock-dependent
   /// code runs before the next tick.
   void run() {
     pumpEventQueue().then((_) {
-      if (!_onTickController.hasListener) return;
+      if (_subscriptions.isEmpty) return;
       tick();
       return run();
     });
   }
 }
 
 /// A mock implementation of [Timer] that uses [Clock] to keep time, rather than
 /// the system clock.
 class _MockTimer implements Timer {
   /// The time at which the timer should fire.
   final int _time;
 
   /// The callback to run when the timer fires.
   final TimerCallback _callback;
 
   /// The subscription to the [Clock.onTick] stream.
   StreamSubscription _subscription;
 
   _MockTimer(Duration duration, this._callback)
       : _time = _clock.time + duration.inMilliseconds {
     _subscription = _clock.onTick.listen((time) {
       if (time < _time) return;
       _subscription.cancel();
       _callback();
     });
   }
 
   void cancel() => _subscription.cancel();
 }