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Unified Diff: sdk/lib/async/stream.dart

Issue 2119153002: Update documentation for Stream.listen. (Closed) Base URL: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk.git@master
Patch Set: Created 4 years, 5 months ago
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Index: sdk/lib/async/stream.dart
diff --git a/sdk/lib/async/stream.dart b/sdk/lib/async/stream.dart
index eca6c34defff51dd271f8407129780926d52e63e..7661d9ffe99978261371223a41a66b8f9833d8a8 100644
--- a/sdk/lib/async/stream.dart
+++ b/sdk/lib/async/stream.dart
@@ -316,26 +316,37 @@ abstract class Stream<T> {
/**
* Adds a subscription to this stream.
*
+ * Returns a [StreamSubscription] which handles events from the stream using
+ * the provided [onData], [onError] and [onDone] handlers.
+ * The handlers can be changed on the subscription, but they start out
+ * as the provided functions.
+ *
* On each data event from this stream, the subscriber's [onData] handler
- * is called. If [onData] is null, nothing happens.
+ * is called. If [onData] is `null`, nothing happens.
*
- * On errors from this stream, the [onError] handler is given a
- * object describing the error.
+ * On errors from this stream, the [onError] handler is called with the
+ * error object and possibly a stack trace.
*
* The [onError] callback must be of type `void onError(error)` or
* `void onError(error, StackTrace stackTrace)`. If [onError] accepts
- * two arguments it is called with the stack trace (which could be `null` if
- * the stream itself received an error without stack trace).
+ * two arguments it is called with the error object and the stack trace
+ * (which could be `null` if the stream itself received an error without
+ * stack trace).
* Otherwise it is called with just the error object.
* If [onError] is omitted, any errors on the stream are considered unhandled,
* and will be passed to the current [Zone]'s error handler.
* By default unhandled async errors are treated
* as if they were uncaught top-level errors.
*
- * If this stream closes, the [onDone] handler is called.
+ * If this stream closes and sends a done event, the [onDone] handler is
+ * called. If [onDone] is `null`, nothing happens.
+ *
+ * If [cancelOnError] is true, the subscription is automatically cancelled
+ * when the first error event is delivered. The default is `false`.
*
- * If [cancelOnError] is true, the subscription is ended when
- * the first error is reported. The default is false.
+ * While a subscription is paused, or when it has been cancelled,
+ * the subscription doesn't receive events and none of the
+ * event handler functions are called.
*/
StreamSubscription<T> listen(void onData(T event),
{ Function onError,
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