Add FileSystemEntity.absolutePath and .isAbsolute properties.

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 0887175e859713a681c37ffc5c57d96c66a0cc3a..ebf00575dd1081d3ce1f00a008336c18f5ca47b2 100644
--- a/sdk/lib/io/file_system_entity.dart
+++ b/sdk/lib/io/file_system_entity.dart
@@ -343,6 +343,40 @@ abstract class FileSystemEntity {
     });
   }
 
+  static final RegExp _absoluteWindowsPathPattern =
+      new RegExp(r'^(\\\\|[a-zA-Z]:[/\\])');
+
+  /**
+   * Returns a [bool] indicating whether this object's path is absolute.
+   *
+   * On Windows, a path is absolute if it starts with \\ or a drive letter
+   * between a and z (upper or lower case) followed by :\ or :/.
+   * On non-Windows, a path is absolute if it starts with /.
+   */
+  bool get isAbsolute {
+    if (Platform.isWindows) {
+      return path.startsWith(_absoluteWindowsPathPattern);
+    } else {
+      return path.startsWith('/');
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the absolute path to this file system entity, by prefixing
+   * a relative path with the current working directory, and returning
+   * an absolute path unchanged.
+   */
+  String get absolutePath {

[Søren Gjesse, 2013/09/13 06:56:08]

Thinking about this once more. Shouldn't this return a FileSystemEntiry of the
same type of the receiver instead of a String? And be called just absolute then?

File a = new File("a").absolute();

+    if (isAbsolute) return path;
+    String current = Directory.current.path;
+    if (current.endsWith('/') ||
+        (Platform.isWindows && current.endsWith('\\'))) {
+      return '$current$path';
+    } else {
+      return '$current${Platform.pathSeparator}$path';
+    }
+  }
+
 
   /**
    * Synchronously checks whether two paths refer to the same object in the