Add sinks to provide synchronous access to events.

lib/src/string_accumulator_sink.dart

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+// Copyright (c) 2016, 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.
+
+import 'dart:convert';
+
+/// A sink that provides access to the concatenated strings passed to it.
+///
+/// See also [StringConversionSink.withCallback].
+class StringAccumulatorSink extends StringConversionSinkBase {
+  /// The string accumulated so far.
+  String get string => _buffer.toString();
+  final _buffer = new StringBuffer();
+
+  /// Whether [close] has been called.
+  bool get isClosed => _isClosed;
+  var _isClosed = false;
+
+  /// Empties [string].
+  ///
+  /// This can be used to avoid double-processing data.
+  void clear() {
+    _buffer.clear();
+  }
+
+  void add(String chunk) {
+    if (_isClosed) {
+      throw new StateError("Can't add to a closed sink.");
+    }
+
+    _buffer.write(chunk);
+  }
+
+  void addSlice(String chunk, int start, int end, bool isLast) {
+    if (_isClosed) {
+      throw new StateError("Can't add to a closed sink.");
+    }
+
+    _buffer.write(chunk.substring(start, end));
+    if (isLast) _isClosed = true;
+  }
+
+  void close() {
+    _isClosed = true;
+  }
+}