Cant Spawn Isolates from static method

[DartBot]

This issue was originally filed by @pjako

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

import("dart:isolate");

class Logic {
  static void isolate() {
    spawnFunction(spawn);
  }
  static void spawn() {
  }

}
void main() {
  Logic.isolate();
}
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Unhandled exception:
Illegal argument(s): spawnFunction expects to be passed a closure to a top-level static function
 0. Function: '::_spawnFunction@6be832b' url: 'dart:isolate' line:383 col:1
 1. Function: '::spawnFunction' url: 'dart:isolate' line:36 col:24
 2. Function: 'Logic.isolate' url: 'file:///Users/work4/dart/Logic/Logic.dart' line:4 col:18
 3. Function: '::main' url: 'file:///Users/work4/dart/Logic/Logic.dart' line:11 col:16

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Dart SDK 7405
Mac OSX

[sethladd]

The docs read: "The topLevelFunction argument must be a static top-level function or a static method that takes no arguments."

http://api.dartlang.org/dart_isolate.html

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cc @sigmundch.
Added Area-Library, Isolates, Triaged labels.

[sigmundch]

Thanks for the error report. This is a bug we have in all implementations so far (vm and frog).

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cc @turnidge.

[sigmundch]

Added Library-Isolates label.

[sigmundch]

Removed Isolates label.

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by [email protected]

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Friendly ping to check not slipped between cracks. Does absence of M1 tag mean "don't expect it soon" ?

Also, am I correct in thinking that without this, one can only spawnFunction() with a top-level function?

Thanks.

[dgrove]

Added Library-Isolate label.

[dgrove]

Removed Library-Isolates label.

[lrhn]

Issue #7698 has been merged into this issue.

[lrhn]

This seems to work in both the VM and dart2js now.
This code runs and prints "go":

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import "dart:isolate";
class C { static void run(string) { print(string); } }
main() { Isolate.spawn(C.run, "go"); }

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Added AssumedStale label.