Support for observable models, fixes #259

lib/observe/html.dart

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+// Copyright (c) 2013, 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.
+
+// TODO(jmesserly): can we handle this better? This seems like an unforunate

[Siggi Cherem (dart-lang), 2013/02/13 01:43:24]

nit: unforunate -> unfor[t]unate

[Jennifer Messerly, 2013/02/13 05:43:15]

What an unforunate typo!

+// limitation of our read barriers.

[Siggi Cherem (dart-lang), 2013/02/13 01:43:24]

I guess there is the general problem of handling native properties (similarly
with dom properties). I wonder how far can we get by using mutation observers...

[Jennifer Messerly, 2013/02/13 05:43:15]

yeah, I dunno. Mostly we aren't observing the DOM though, so I think we should
be okay, as long as properties like location.hash are exposed.

I worry about discoverability though.

Yet another reason to encourage folks to use a routing package I guess.

+
+/** Helpers for exposing dart:html as observable data. */
+library web_ui.observe.html;
+
+import 'dart:html';
+import 'package:web_ui/observe.dart';
+
+ObservableReference<String> _hash;
+
+/** An observable version of [window.location.hash]. */
+String get locationHash {
+  if (_hash == null) {
+    _hash = new ObservableReference(window.location.hash);
+
+    window.onHashChange.listen(_updateLocationHash);
+    window.onPopState.listen(_updateLocationHash);
+  }
+
+  return _hash.value;
+}
+
+/** Pushes a new URL state, similar to the affect of clicking a link. */
+set locationHash(String value) {
+  window.history.pushState(null, '', value);
+  _updateLocationHash(null);
+}
+
+
+// listen on changes to #hash in the URL
+// Note: listen on both popState and hashChange, because IE9 doesnh't support
+// history API, and it doesn't work properly on Opera 12.
+// See http://dartbug.com/5483
+_updateLocationHash(_) {
+  if (_hash != null) {
+    _hash.value = window.location.hash;
+  }
+}