Only pass an AssetId to isPrimary and declareOutputs.

pkg/observe/lib/transformer.dart

Index: pkg/observe/lib/transformer.dart
diff --git a/pkg/observe/lib/transformer.dart b/pkg/observe/lib/transformer.dart
index 2c5a17e2b475b49f2cba2f803b2da414f57efc16..0b49a187d30234c8547b97310342756cbd707072 100644
--- a/pkg/observe/lib/transformer.dart
+++ b/pkg/observe/lib/transformer.dart
@@ -45,22 +45,18 @@ class ObservableTransformer extends Transformer {
     return files;
   }
 
-  Future<bool> isPrimary(Asset input) {
-    if (input.id.extension != '.dart' ||
-        (_files != null && !_files.contains(input.id.path))) {
-      return new Future.value(false);
-    }
-    // Note: technically we should parse the file to find accurately the
-    // observable annotation, but that seems expensive. It would require almost
-    // as much work as applying the transform. We rather have some false
-    // positives here, and then generate no outputs when we apply this
-    // transform.
-    return input.readAsString().then(
-      (c) => c.contains("@observable") || c.contains("@published"));
-  }
+  Future<bool> isPrimary(AssetId id) => new Future.value(
+      id.extension != '.dart' || (_files != null && !_files.contains(id.path)));
 
   Future apply(Transform transform) {
     return transform.primaryInput.readAsString().then((content) {
+      // Do a quick string check to determine if this is this file even
+      // plausibly might need to be transformed. If not, we can avoid an
+      // expensive parse.
+      if (!content.contains("@observable") && !content.contains("@published")) {
+        return;
+      }
+
       var id = transform.primaryInput.id;
       // TODO(sigmund): improve how we compute this url
       var url = id.path.startsWith('lib/')