Add Future.timeout.

sdk/lib/async/future_impl.dart

 // Copyright (c) 2012, 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.
 
 part of dart.async;
 
 /** The onValue and onError handlers return either a value or a future */
 typedef dynamic _FutureOnValue<T>(T value);
 /** Test used by [Future.catchError] to handle skip some errors. */
 typedef bool _FutureErrorTest(var error);
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         listener._setValue(listenerValueOrError);
       } else {
         listeners = listener._removeListeners();
         _AsyncError asyncError = listenerValueOrError;
         listener._setError(asyncError.error, asyncError.stackTrace);
       }
       // Prepare for next round.
       source = listener;
     }
   }
+
+  Future timeout(Duration timeLimit, onTimeout()) {
+    if (_isComplete) return new _Future.immediate(this);
+    Zone zone = Zone.current;
+    onTimeout = zone.registerCallback(onTimeout);
+    _Future result = new _Future();
+    bool completeNormally = true;
+    Timer timer = new Timer(timeLimit, () {
+      completeNormally = false;
+      zone.run(() {

[floitsch, 2013/11/27 12:31:16]

I think it would be nicer if you passed "onTimeout" to the zone.
so:
try {
  result._complete(zone.run(onTimeout));
} catch (e, s) {
  result._completeError(e, s);
}

This way the zone gets the function that was registered.

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen, 2013/11/27 12:54:20]

Good point. Done.

+        try {
+          result._complete(onTimeout());
+        } catch (e, s) {
+          result._completeError(e, s);
+        }
+      });
+    });
+    this.then((T v) {
+      if (completeNormally) {
+        timer.cancel();
+        result._complete(v);
+      }
+    }, onError: (e, s) {
+      if (completeNormally) {
+        timer.cancel();
+        result._completeError(e, s);
+      }
+    });
+    return result;
+  }
 }