pkg/json_rpc_2/lib/src/utils.dart

// Copyright (c) 2014, 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 json_rpc_2.utils;

import 'dart:async';

import 'package:stack_trace/stack_trace.dart';

typedef ZeroArgumentFunction();

/// Like [new Future.sync], but automatically wraps the future in a
/// [Chain.track] call.
Future syncFuture(callback()) => Chain.track(new Future.sync(callback));

/// Returns a sentence fragment listing the elements of [iter].
///
/// This converts each element of [iter] to a string and separates them with
/// commas and/or "and" where appropriate.
String toSentence(Iterable iter) {
  if (iter.length == 1) return iter.first.toString();
  return iter.take(iter.length - 1).join(", ") + " and ${iter.last}";
}

/// Returns [name] if [number] is 1, or the plural of [name] otherwise.
///
/// By default, this just adds "s" to the end of [name] to get the plural. If
/// [plural] is passed, that's used instead.
String pluralize(String name, int number, {String plural}) {
  if (number == 1) return name;
  if (plural != null) return plural;
  return '${name}s';
}

/// A regular expression to match the exception prefix that some exceptions'
/// [Object.toString] values contain.
final _exceptionPrefix = new RegExp(r'^([A-Z][a-zA-Z]*)?(Exception|Error): ');

/// Get a string description of an exception.
///
/// Many exceptions include the exception class name at the beginning of their
/// [toString], so we remove that if it exists.
String getErrorMessage(error) =>
    error.toString().replaceFirst(_exceptionPrefix, '');