Add a Loader class for loading tests from files.

lib/src/dart.dart

+// Copyright (c) 2015, 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.
+
+library unittest.dart;
+
+import 'dart:async';
+import 'dart:io';
+import 'dart:isolate';
+
+import 'package:path/path.dart' as p;
+
+import 'io.dart';
+import 'remote_exception.dart';
+
+/// Runs [code] in an isolate.
+///
+/// [code] should be the contents of a Dart entrypoint. It may contain imports;
+/// they will be resolved in the same context as the host isolate. [message] is
+/// passed to the [main] method of the code being run; the caller is responsible
+/// for using this to establish communication with the isolate.
+///
+/// [packageRoot] controls the package root of the isolate. It may be either a
+/// [String] or a [Uri].
+Future<Isolate> runInIsolate(String code, message, {packageRoot}) {
+  // TODO(nweiz): load code from a local server rather than from a file.
+  return withTempDir((dir) {
+    var dartPath = p.join(dir, 'runInIsolate.dart');
+    new File(dartPath).writeAsStringSync(code);
+    var port = new ReceivePort();
+    return Isolate.spawn(_isolateBuffer, {
+      'replyTo': port.sendPort,
+      'uri': p.toUri(dartPath).toString(),
+      'packageRoot': packageRoot == null ? null : packageRoot.toString(),
+      'message': message
+    }).then((isolate) {
+      return port.first.then((response) {
+        if (response['type'] != 'error') return isolate;
+        isolate.kill();
+        var asyncError = RemoteException.deserialize(response['error']);
+        return new Future.error(asyncError.error, asyncError.stackTrace);
+      });
+    });
+  });
+}
+
+// TODO(nweiz): remove this when issue 12617 is fixed.
+/// A function used as a buffer between the host isolate and [spawnUri].
+///
+/// [spawnUri] synchronously loads the file and its imports, which can deadlock
+/// the host isolate if there's an HTTP import pointing at a server in the host.
+/// Adding an additional isolate in the middle works around this.
+void _isolateBuffer(message) {
+  var replyTo = message['replyTo'];
+  var packageRoot = message['packageRoot'];
+  if (packageRoot != null) packageRoot = Uri.parse(packageRoot);
+  Isolate.spawnUri(Uri.parse(message['uri']), [], message['message'],
+          packageRoot: packageRoot)
+      .then((_) => replyTo.send({'type': 'success'}))
+      .catchError((error, stackTrace) {
+    replyTo.send({
+      'type': 'error',
+      'error': RemoteException.serialize(error, stackTrace)
+    });
+  });
+}