Support posting of external data into dart as external uint8 arrays through the Dart API.

runtime/vm/dart_api_message.cc

Index: runtime/vm/dart_api_message.cc
diff --git a/runtime/vm/dart_api_message.cc b/runtime/vm/dart_api_message.cc
index 7fb311ffa895897652dc7f24dca2d87212af4da9..12b2e5783ec51d925242fa3869b3146fe27dd74f 100644
--- a/runtime/vm/dart_api_message.cc
+++ b/runtime/vm/dart_api_message.cc
@@ -715,6 +715,22 @@ void ApiMessageWriter::WriteCObjectInlined(Dart_CObject* object,
       }
       break;
     }
+    case Dart_CObject::kExternalUint8Array: {
+      // Write out serialization header value for this object.
+      WriteInlinedHeader(object);
+      // Write out the class and tag information.
+      WriteObjectHeader(ObjectStore::kExternalUint8ArrayClass, 0);
+      int length = object->value.as_external_byte_array.length;
+      uint8_t* data = object->value.as_external_byte_array.data;
+      void* peer = object->value.as_external_byte_array.peer;
+      Dart_PeerFinalizer callback =
+          object->value.as_external_byte_array.callback;
+      WriteSmi(length);
+      WriteIntptrValue(reinterpret_cast<intptr_t>(data));
+      WriteIntptrValue(reinterpret_cast<intptr_t>(peer));
+      WriteIntptrValue(reinterpret_cast<intptr_t>(callback));

[siva, 2012/06/28 16:44:05]

As discussed offline we need some mechanism to ensure that this message is not
posted to an external process. maybe you could add a TODO here to that effect.

[Mads Ager (google), 2012/06/28 18:06:51]

Done.

+      break;
+    }
     default:
       UNREACHABLE();
   }